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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Wednwday, March 33, 1183 Page Four USC professor says Authorities to speak View of Japan y coy its will 'discuss coy intiry's'liroy bles Chronicle sufT Students who want to find out what some of America's foremost authorities think about "the painful and vexing problems confronting us in the 1980s dwindling resources, a recession-racke- d economy and explosive international tensions" can enroll in any one of four course sections offered in two departments. five-cred- The speakers will be : chance to hear William Raspberry, a columnist at the Washington Post Joel Bonner, assistant secretary of the Army, and many people from academia and government. Abroad," is offered through the political science designed for undergraduates from all disciplines, not just history or political science,' according to Sandra Taylor, associate professor of history and a course coordinator. is from the departments of history, political science, military studies, communication, economics, and Ethnic Studies, ASUU and the Division of Continuing Education. Lawrence Wittner, State University of New York; Lawrence Kaplan, Kent State University; J. Steven Wall, first assistant secretary for the British Embassy: Paul Jabber, Bankers Trust Co. in New York City; Susan Kaufmann Purcell, UCLA; and various professors from the University will also speak. also offered as a free public lecture series. Drs. Edward Davies of the history department and Edward Epstein of the political science department are also coordinators of the course. I " if W ' v- - v : - political changes in the Pacific. He said in when it was time for Japan to renew its security treaty, Japan felt ft in its best interest to renew the alliance with America. According to Dingman, the reversion of Okinawa to full Japanese control in 1972 was the beginning of the "contemporary" period of the alliance relationship "One in which we are both allies and competitors." i A; 1 1960, . Dingman continued, saying there are problems that exist in the relationship. He said that in economic issues there is little movement.: He did, however cite that Japan today supplies only 12 percent of the and reviewed the current 1945-1951- ,7 - - imports taken into the United States. Dingman said that in Japan's point of view books, said from 1945 until 1952 the connection between the United States and Japan wa between "the victor and the " she has suffered unprecedented deficits in terms of exportation. Japan does not spend even 1 percent of its gross national product on defense, whereas vanquished." Dingman maintained that because of Japan's defeat in the war it "fundamentally redefined bur relationship with Japan in ways that were unimagineable . America spends anywhere from 6 percent to 10 percent on defense. "If you look at the size of military forces in the world, Japan is about the seventh or eighth military power in the before 1941." to Dingman, the United States According had an ambivalent relationship with Japan and "the U.S. set out to destroy and rebuild (Japan) more or less at the same time. We wanted to democratize a defeated enemy," he said. ' Dingman, who received his master's and Ph.D. from Harvard, said that in the 1930s the bulk of. Japan's trade was with Asian countries. "By 1946,75 percent of all Japan's trade was with the United States a remarkable footblock which, in part, was : . ; deliberate,'! he said. Dingman said the years between 1952 and 1972 were important in that the trade between Japan and the United States set the basis for both countries to survive a variety of MS f.t , - 'relationship that existed between the United States and Japan during those years and as it exists today.' .'. v. Dingman, who is currently working on two brought in with funding Other speakers include Richard Jensen from the University of Illinois, Sheldon Wolin from Princeton University, Peter Karsten from the University of Pittsburgh, Robert Lekachman from City University of New York and Emma Rothschild from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. department, either 485R or 695R, or through the history department, either 391 R or 591R. courses are for The 500- - and 600-lev- el lower-lev- el courses are students. The graduate The course Japan, The most expensive speaker will be Daniel Yergin from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His fee is $6,000, Taylor said. Raspberry's fee is $4,000. The course, "The U.S. at Home and ' . Of the $22,000 for the course, ASUU put up $6,000 with the departments supplying the remaining $16,000. course offers students the it . "We can see a remarkable change in things over the last few years one is the perception of Japan as the ruthless invader," Dr. Roger V. Dingman said Tuesday. Dingman, associate professor of history at the University of Southern California, spoke on "New Perspectives on the Occupation of Besides listening to speakers, students enrolled in the course will be required to take two tests, read up to five books and participate in discussions. by Matt Adelman The by Ann J. Bardsley Chronicle staff : world." .;:" . In conclusion, Dingman said the United States, in terms of its economic stability, is more dependent on trade now than is Japan. He said we have a common interest with Japan in preserving trade in the Pacific because there arc two basic threats: the growing strength of the . USSR and Soviet China in the Pacific, and second, the economic threat of Southeastern Asia being underdeveloped. Dingman said America and Japan have a third common interest in preserving and promoting democratic issues. "To sum it up, the greatest threat isn't our external enemies, but our perceptions of one another," Dingman said. THIS COULD BE YOUR x LUCKY XI ,H Air Force ROTC recently announced the Air Force AGAIN has openings for students vr Hf S0 -- 4 LAthsM SIS openings were almost hon existent. Openings are available to 1 985 graduates, male female, majoring in Physical Education, Humanities, BusinessSocial Sciences and other areas. If you will finish your sophomore year spring quarter, and are interested in becoming a commissioned officer, contact Captain Passey at 581 & more Gotawoy to o grot way of life. ' r m with non technical majors. In the past, such mm J "IS .. 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