Japan Center News

The Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) of Columbia University held a brown bag lecture titled "Financial Crisis: Impact on Japan and Lessons from Japan" on December 4 featuring Shijuro Ogata, former Deputy Governor of International Relations at the Bank of Japan.

Video available for the symposium "Lessons From the Japanese Bubble For the U.S." held on November 19 in New York.

The Program on Alternative Investments of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University cosponsored the symposium "Lessons From the Japanese Bubble For the U.S." on November 19, 2008. Two hundred and sixty people attended to hear from three distinguished speakers on how the United States can learn from Japan's bubble experience and avoid its own "lost decade."

Alicia Ogawa, Director of the Program on Alternative Investments and Associate Director, Advising of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business will speak at the panel discussion entitled,  "Japan's financial and economic problems of the 1990s and the current crisis in the United States: A Comparison" in room 11-75 Cantor Board Room at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business from 6:30 to 8:30 pm on Tuesday, November 25, 2008. This event is organized by the Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies and the Undergraduate International Business Association at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Michihisa Shinagawa Discusses Sumitomo Corporation's Strategy in the Americas with Columbia MBAs.

Mr. Steve Sturm, the group vice president of Americas strategic research and planning and corporate communications for Toyota Motor North America, came to Columbia Business School on Thursday, November 6 to discuss the global automobile company's "Green Strategy." The event was organized by the student led Japanese Business Association and Green Business Club, with the support and cosponsorship of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business.

On Friday evening, November 7, approximately 50 members of the Japanese Business Association (JBA) at Columbia Business School gathered at the official residence of Ambassador Motoatsu Sakurai, consul general of Japan in New York City.

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Curtis J. Milhaupt, CJEB core faculty member, moderates, "Evaluating Japan's New Jury (Saiban-in) System", on Nov.5.