Japan Center News

New Working Paper by CJEB Director of Research David E. Weinstein, Professor Tsutomu Watanabe of the University of Tokyo, and Jessie Handbury of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, "How Much Do Official Price Indexes Tell Us About Inflation?," now available

CJEB Core Faculty member Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, gave a talk, "Abe and the LDP Are Back. Now What?" on September 25. A video and summary report of the talk are now available.

 Presentations from the State Intervention and Private Enterprise: Japan, the U.S., and China are available here online.

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Professor Hugh Patrick's views on the state of the political economy in Japan, particularly Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy of "Abenomics," were featured in his article "Japan's Price Fix" in the East Asia Forum on October 9, 2013.

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Videos From Our Tokyo Conference and Mitsui Symposium Are Now Available

Professor Joseph Stiglitz in the Nikkei commented on Japan's new fiscal policy and actions.

Jiji Press Report on Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz's Tokyo Press Conference

CJEB Director Hugh Patrick featured in AP article, "Japan's central bank chief vows to end deflation"