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Lecture Series: Motoshige Itoh on “‘Abenomics’ and the Japanese Economy”

February 27, 2014

Pink piggy bank with assorted coins

As part of the 2013-2014 Mitsubishi Corporation Lecture Series, Motoshige Itoh delivered a talk titled “On ‘Abenomics’ and the Japanese Economy: Prime Minister Abe’s New Policies to Boost Japan’s Economy.” Motoshige Itoh is professor of international economics at the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, and president of the National Institute for Research Advancements (NIRA),

2013 Way Lecture: Kenneth Pyle on “Hiroshima and the Historians”

November 18, 2013

An allied correspondent stands in a sea of rubble before the shell of a building that once was a movie theater in Hiroshima

It has been said that no single decision ever made by an American president has aroused more discussion and debate than the decision to use the atomic bomb. Watch our very own Kenneth B. Pyle discuss the continuing controversy among historians over this decision as part of the Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture Series.