Professor Hugh Patrick, Director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business wrote about the 20 year history in celebration of the Center’s 20th anniversary in 2006. Hugh Patrick wrote. “The Center on Japanese Economy and Business, has developed, grown, and evolved, in order to carry out its mission effectively in a changing Japan and a changing world. The need to understand, explain, and learn from the Japanese economy in all its dimensions is as important and acute today as it was two decades ago.  Japan will continue to be a major player in the global economy and in East Asia, and its alliance with the United States will continue to be its most important relationship…CJEB certainly will not simply rest on its laurels: it will continue to be at the cutting edge in fulfilling its mission.”