Author Archives: Ben Symons

Two prominent Japanese professors arrived in the United States Friday as part of an exchange program launched this semester between Yale and the University of Tokyo. The initiative, dubbed the Todai-Yale Initiative for Japanese Studies and Related Humanities and Social Sciences, aims to bring visiting professors to the University to conduct research on Japanese studies »

Providing humanitarian aid to dictatorships is acceptable only if those regimes remedy their human rights practices, President Bush’s special envoy on human rights to North Korea said at a Yale Political Union debate Tuesday night. In an address to about 200 students in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Jay Lefkowitz discussed current U.S. aid programs to North Korea, »