Abstract
This presentation illustrates the attempts among US geographers to clarify various implications of the 9.11 event under the pressure to remain silent, while seeking both the intellectual and political contributions that can be made by geographers in Japan. Since the terrorist attacks of 9.11, the political climate in the US has got even more conservative. Accordingly, it has been extremely difficult for academics to criticize the federal foreign policy. However, scholars and students with progressive minds have initiated the anti-war movement on numerous campuses. The perspective of critical geography is particularly significant, when the 9.11 event has made it clear that the international inequity in the arena of political economy has been severe in the context of globalization
