Japan Center News

Professor Gerald L. Curtis Pens Article for Foreign Affairs magazine, "Japan's Cautious Hawks."

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Sheena S. Iyengar, CJEB's Faculty Advisory Committee Member, was featured in the Asahi Shimbun.

In the August 2012 APEC Economies newsletter, Professor Gerald Curtis discusses the implications for Japan's future of the response to the March 11 earthquake disaster.

Professor Gerald Curtis was featured in a Financial Times opinion piece.

Professor Takatoshi Ito, Dean of The University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Public Policy and CJEB Research Associate, has written an article for the Financial Times entitled "Last Chance for the Bank of Japan to Jettison Defeatism."

The Washington Post featured Professor David Weinstein's insights on how recent support for export industries provides advantages to foreign competitors in conflict with U.S. interests. (The Washington Post, February 17, 2012)

CJEB Director, Professor Hugh Patrick was featured in an article for Reuters Japan

Each year the Center conducts a University-wide competition on behalf of the Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Scholarship Foundation and nominates one Columbia student to receive full tuition and some living expenses for a one-year program of undergraduate or graduate study in Japan. For the academic year 2012-2013, send your application by Wednesday, February 29, 2012.

Professor David Weinstein's opinions on taxes and the Japanese elderly were featured in the November 18, 2011 Economist article, "Whose Lost Decade?"