Japan Center News

CJEB's Associate Director of Research, Takatoshi Ito, recently written an article published by Nikkei Inc, titled "アジア投資銀の行方（上）拙速な参加見送りは妥当." The article was published on April 23, 2015.  

CJEB's Annual Tokyo Conference, titled "Japan's Changing Corporate Governance", will take place on Thursday, May 21st at the Otemachi Financial City Center in Tokyo. Registration is currently open. Please click here for more information.

CJEB recently held its 10th annual lecture on Japanese politics with Professor Gerald Curtis, CJEB's core faculty member and Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. The lecture was titled "New Directions in Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy". To view the video of this lecture, please click here.  

Chazen Global Insights has recently written an article about Japanese M&A, which included a summary of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (Columbia Business School) and the Center for Japanese Legal Studies' (Columbia Law School) collaborated panel discussion titled "M&A in Japan: Reenergized." Panelists included Hidemi Moue, CEO of Japan Industrial Partners Inc. and Jonathan Rouner, Managing Director and Head of International Mergers and Acquisitions of Nomura Securities International.

CJEB's Director of Research, David E. Weinstein was recently interviewed by Jiji Press for the article titled "Abenomics”- Moving in the Right Direction = After the 2014 General Election, Some Structural Reforms Are Needed."

CJEB's Senior Advisor, Alicia Ogawa, provided her perspective and thoughts on Prime Minister Abe's tax hike decision and reforms in a recent Nikkei article, titled "After tax hike delay, Abe can no longer shy away from bold reforms." To view this article, please click here.

CJEB's Core Faculty member, Professor Gerald Curtis, recently interviewed with The Wall Street Journal in Tokyo to discuss Japan's upcoming election which will take place in December. He speculates the outcome of the election and how it may impact Abe and the LDP party. He also discusses the recent recession and the progress of Abenomics. For more information and to view the video, please click here.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan visited Columbia University on September 22 to give an address at the World Leaders Forum.

On June 27, 2014, the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute convened a group of eighteen leading East Asia experts including CJEB Director Hugh Patrick to partake in a daylong discussion titled “Tension Reduction in Northeast Asia: A U.S.

CJEB core faculty member, Professor Curtis J. Milhaupt shared his views in a news segment on CNBC on the recent ruling against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). There has been a case against TEPCO by a man whose wife had committed suicide after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, with the court finally concluding that TEPCO is responsible for her suicide.