Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Wrote the Article "Japan's Delta Desperation" for Project Syndicate

Professor Takatoshi Ito, director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, wrote the Project Syndicate article "Japan's Delta Desperation." The article discusses the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games unfolding without any major incidents, the trailing but accelerating vaccine rollout, the spread of the Delta variant in Japan, Prime Minister Suga’s general election challenges, and the political and economic outlooks resulting from the current state of the pandemic.