Symposium: Anatomy of the Radical Right in Japan and UK

Symposium: Anatomy of the Radical Right in Japan and UK

Date: June 9, 2019 (Sun) 13:30-17:30

Venue: 4th floor meeting room, Asia and Pacific Research Center, Osaka University of Economics and Law

1-11-5, Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo (Five minutes from Kamiyacho station at Hibiya Line)

http://www.keiho-u.ac.jp/research/asia-pacific/access.html

Program

Yoojin Koo (University of Tokyo)

Organizing Local Conservatives in Japan: The Case of the Japan Conference

Naoto Higuchi (Tokushima University)

Japan’s Civil Society Moving to the Right? Examining Polarization, Mainstreaming, and Fragmentation Hypotheses

Youngmi Lim (Musashi University)

Crafting Claims in Tense International Relations: How Ethno-national Advocacy Groups Counter-frame Hate and Revisionist Historiography

Tomomi Yamaguchi (Montana State University)

The Japanese Conservative Movement to Disseminate “Alternative Facts”

Natalie-Anne Hall (Manchester University)

Brexit and its Connection to Right-wing Populism on Facebook