・The 41st Annual Conference of EUSA-JP, EU-Japan Relations in the Multipolar Era: How EU-Japan EPA/SPA matter in the World? as its general theme, was held by online on the 7th and 8th of November 2020. (the number of participants: 108 on the 7th November and 130 on the 8th of November including general public)
・This year's Conference had been planed to hold at University of Asia, Tokyo, but because of COVID- 19 pandemic , we could not use the University Campus, therefore has been held by online.
・In spite of holding by online, the number of participating in the Conference were a little bit more than the conferences of normal years.
http://www.eusa-japan.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Programme2020Asia_E.pdf
The online Conference began with the opening speech by Prof. NAKAMURA who is the president of EUSA JP. He has spoken and explained the aiming point of the general theme and made his keynote speech as an opening remark of this year's Conference, its theme was "Legal Significance of the Japan-EU Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA)" .
The 1. Plenary Session I was made each presentations by three experts from the viewpoint of politics, economics and legal science, and each theme: The "China Factor" in Japan-EU Relations, Perspective on the Constitutional Implementation of the JEUEPA, and Economic Assessments and Remaining Issues of Japan-EU EPA. After these Japanese presentations, one European researcher participated in this Session and made a presentation from the viewpoint of European side, its theme was "Subject or Object?: Europe in Sino-American Competition".
On morning of the 8th of November, three sessions were divided and held also by online. Each theme was; Japan and EU, Policy Integration, and Current State of Affairs of the European Union. Each session was made from the viewpoint of Interdisciplinary.
The Afternoon session was open to general public as well, which should enable a wide non-university Japanese audience to learn from leading experts about the recent EU developments and its general theme was "Euro in the Multipolar Era: Challenges after Twenty Years". Five Japanese researchers and experts made their own presentations, and after their presentations, discussion with Q & A was made with all participants.
Japanese Program is as follow:
http://www.eusa-japan.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Programme2020Asia_J_ver2.pdf
This year's Conference was made by online, therefore it was not necessary to expend the budget for supporting the graduate students to participate in the Conference as a travel cost.
no picture of the Conference, because of holding by online.