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Seminor on Japan's Economic Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific

 

Seminor : Japan's Economic Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific by Prof Yorizumi Watanabe
Mr Watanabe is Professor of International Political Economy at Keio University. He has served as a special assistant to Japan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, a Deputy Director General of the Economic Affairs Bureau in the Foreign Ministry, Japan's chief negotiator for the Japan-Mexico Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and for Russia's WTO accession. In addition, he has been a member of the task forces/ study groups investigating Japan-Chile, Japan-India, Japan-Korea, and Japan-Mongolia EPAs.
Prof Watanabe will speak on Japan’s economy after the recent disasters, its regional economic relations, and its participation in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) initiated by New Zealand, Brunei, Chile and Singapore.

Panel Discussion : Japan after March

Panelists: Mr. Meishi Sonobe, Mr Corey Wallace, Prof Yorizumi Watanabe, Prof Hugh Whittaker

With Japan coming to grips with the triple disaster of last March and beginning to rebuild from its worst post-war crisis, greater attention is focused on longer-term domestic effects and global implications of the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear fiasco. How will Japan finance its massive reconstruction programme? How will the disasters complicate Japan’s recovery and re-orientation following its “lost decade”? How have they affected regional and global supply chains? What are the impacts on Japanese society, politics and culture? These are some of the questions that many in the world are seeking answers to, and which will also be the key issues to be addressed at this panel discussion.

 

Date Thursday, 11 August 2011
Time Seminar : 16:00-17:00 / Panel Discussion: 17:00-18:00 / Reception to celebrate the launch of a new Japan Studies program 18:00-18:30
Venue University Presentation Room (204), Clock Tower Building, 22 Princes Street

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