• Professor Tsuneo Akaha, GSIPM, had a lead article “A Distant Neighbor: Russia’s Search to Find Its Place in East Asia,” in the June issue of Global Asia.
  • Professor Akaha and Professor Wei Liang, GSIPM, were elected to two-year terms on the Board of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC), a regional affiliate of Association for Asian Studies.
  • MIIS has agreed to host the annual conference of ASPAC on June 7-9, 2013. The interdisciplinary conference of scholars and students will be attended by university professors, students, and independent researchers from the U.S., Asia, and elsewhere.