We met with scholars, academics, military officers, and government officials at places like the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), the National Defense Academy, the U.S. Embassy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Prime Minister’s Office. We traveled to Kyoto, where we visited the orange Torii of the Fushimi-Inari Shrine, the bamboo forest in Arashiyama, and the thousand Buddha statues at Sanjusangendo Temple. Next, we travelled to Hiroshima, where we visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and museum, and met with the daughter of an Atomic Bomb survivor, as well as the former mayor of Hiroshima (and former Tufts Professor) Taditoshi Akiba. The next few days, the JRP team plans to return to Tokyo, where we have a few more meetings. —Conor Friedmann. Tufts ’20
