His Excellency Ichiro Fujisaki, ambassador of Japan to the United States, will address “U.S.-Japanese Relations” at a Brigham Young University David M. Kennedy Center lecture Monday, Nov. 23, at noon in 250 Spencer W. Kimball Tower.

Fujisaki became ambassador to the U.S. in 2008, having previously served as ambassador and permanent representative to the International Organizations in Geneva and as Japan’s deputy minister for foreign affairs, during which time he served also as the prime minister's personal representative to the G-8 Summit and Japan's chief negotiator for free trade agreements.

This lecture will be archived online. For more information on events sponsored by the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, see the calendar online at kennedy.byu.edu.

For more information about this lecture, contact Erlend Peterson at (801) 422-1803.