Please join us for an informative talk by Dr. Narushige Michishita on Japan’s Evolving Security Assessments of China and North Korea and Its Impact on Japan’s Security Posture. Light refreshments will be served before the talk at 11:30 a.m. Michishita is a specialist in Japanese security and foreign policy as well as security issues on the Korean Peninsula. He is the author of North Korea’s Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008 (Routledge, 2009) and Lessons of the Cold War in the Pacific (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2016). Dr. Michishita is also serving as a member of National Security Secretariat Advisory Board of the Government of Japan and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. The event is cosponsored by the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology, and the Consulate General of Japan Los Angeles.