The University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, together with the Warsaw Public Library are organizing a debate “Japan: political life and relations with the state” on January 31.

East Asian countries have always fascinated Westerners. Japan became the first in Asia to adopt Western values and seems to be a master in showing the West its modern face. And how does real life in modern Japan look like?

This and other questions will be answered by Prof. Teruji Suzuki – a retired professor of Tokai University and Kagawa University, currently lecturing as a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw; Dr Bartosz Wojciechowski – teacher of Japanese, lecturer at the Jagiellonian University and Edyta Nowicka, a consultant in Japanese business, living in Tokyo and a lecturer at the SWPS University.

The moderator of the meeting will be Prof. Krzysztof Gawlikowski, head of the Department of Asian Studies of the SWPS University.