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Japan Economic Seminar
Friday, February 7, 2025 | 1:00 – 5:35 PM
Room 490, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Session 1: “The Last or Lasting Samurai? The Impact of Secondary Schools on Elite Formation in Early Development” (PDF)
Session 2: “Wage Spillovers across Sectors: Evidence from a Localized Public-Sector Wage Cut” (PDF)
Session 3: “The Impact of Trade Disruption with China on the Japanese Economy” (PDF)
Session 4: “Economic Security and New Industrial Policy”
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(New Date) Resurrecting Entrepreneurship to Revive Japan
Monday, February 24, 2025 | 12:45 – 1:45 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Room 640, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: Richard Katz, Editor, Japan Economy Watch; Special Correspondent, Toyo Keizai Inc.
A Lunchtime Seminar with Ms. Natsumi Akita, SEO of Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 | 12:50 – 1:50 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Room 640, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: Natsumi Akita, Senior Executive Officer; Group Chief Branding Officer; Group Chief Culture Officer, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
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How Japan Is Developing Tech-Minded, Socially Conscious Business Leaders in the Age of AI
Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 12:45 – 1:45 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Room 640, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: Emi Takemura, Representative Director, FutureEdu and Learn by Creation; Co-Founder and Advisor, Peatix.com
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A Lunchtime Seminar with Mr. Teruhiro Kawabe, President and CEO of Morinaga America
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 12:45 – 1:45 PM (Lunch will be provided)
TBC, Columbia Business School
Featuring: Teruhiro Kawabe, Chief Representative for the USA; President; CEO, Morinaga America Inc.
A Seminar with Mr. Takashima and Mr. Goldstein of Oisix
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 6:00 – 7:00 PM
Room 840, Kravis Hall, Columbia Business School
Featuring: Kohey Takashima, Founder and CEO, Oisix ra daichi Inc.; Daniel Goldstein, CEO, Oisix Inc.; Purple Carrot; and Yoko Street
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CJEB Annual Tokyo Conference
Monday, July 28, 2025
Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Yumiko Shimabukuro, Faculty, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Co-Founder, Japanese Management Leadership, co-authored a book titled Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia, published by Cornell University Press.
Professor David Weinstein, Director of CJEB, the Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at Columbia University, wrote the article “U.S.-China Trade: What Voters Need to Know Before Heading to the Polls” for Columbia Business Insights | 2024 Election Special Edition.
The article discusses trade policies, inviting voters to consider whether current trade policies are serving them and the country well, and references Professor Weinstein’s research related to the paper he co-authored titled “Trade Protection, Stock-Market Returns, and Welfare.”
David E. Weinstein is the Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at Columbia University. He is also the director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB),co-director of Columbia’s APEC Study Center, co-director of the Japan Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
We are proud to share that on October 25, 2024, the Eagle on the World Award was given by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York (JCCI) at JCCI’s 40th Annual Dinner Gala to Professor David E. Weinstein, the Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at Columbia University and Director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School.
David E. Weinstein is the Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at Columbia University. He is also the director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB),co-director of Columbia’s APEC Study Center, co-director of the Japan Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Professor Takatoshi Ito, director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, and professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, wrote the Project Syndicate article "Japan After Kishida."
Takatoshi Ito is one of Japan premier economists. A professor at the prestigious University of Tokyo, he is the author or co-author of several books on the Japanese and global economy. He served in the Japanese government as Deputy Vice Minister for International Finance in the Ministry of Finance and was a member of Japan’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. He has been a senior advisor in the research department of the International Monetary Fund and has taught at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota.
Professor Takatoshi Ito, Director of CJEB’s Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, appeared on Bloomberg and discussed his views on the Bank of Japan’s policy and the outlook for the economy.
Takatoshi Ito is one of Japan premier economists. A professor at the prestigious University of Tokyo, he is the author or co-author of several books on the Japanese and global economy. He served in the Japanese government as Deputy Vice Minister for International Finance in the Ministry of Finance and was a member of Japan’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. He has been a senior advisor in the research department of the International Monetary Fund and has taught at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota.
Professor David E. Weinstein, CJEB's Director, co-authored a paper titled "Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution." The paper explores Japan's massive public investments in codifying technical knowledge to explain why it was unique among non-Western countries in industrializing in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
David E. Weinstein is the Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy at Columbia University. He is also the director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB),co-director of Columbia’s APEC Study Center, co-director of the Japan Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a member of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Keynote: Unveiling Progress: Women’s Empowerment and DEI in Japan, and Keidanren’s Forward-Thinking Endeavors Speaker: Teiko Kudo, Chair of Sub-committee on Diversity & Inclusion, Keidanren; Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Featuring: Randall S. Jones, Research Associate, Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), Columbia Business School; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS); Former Senior Counselor - East Asia and Head of Japan/Korea Desk, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Featuring: Paul Sheard, Author of The Power of Money; Former Vice Chairman, S&P Global
Featuring: Bernard Hoekman, Professor and Director, Global Economics, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
The 2023 Annual Lecture on the Japanese Economy by Professor Takatoshi Ito, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), Columbia Business School. Moderated by David E. Weinstein, Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University.
The Center on Japanese Economy and Business Has Been the Preeminent Academic Research Center for Over 36 Years. Established at Columbia Business School in 1986 under the direction of its founder, Professor Hugh Patrick, and led currently by its director, Professor David Weinstein, the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) promotes knowledge and understanding of Japanese business and economics in an international context. CJEB is a research organization widely recognized for its vigorous research activities, international symposia, conferences, and lectures, held in New York City and Tokyo, and most recently online, which provide prominent speakers from the public and private sectors a forum for collaboration and reflection on Japan, the United States, and the global economy.
Under the leadership of Professors David Weinstein and Takatoshi Ito, CJEB’s associate director of research, CJEB supports research projects and library and computer-based resource initiatives. Other core faculty members are Japan specialists drawn from Columbia’s Business School, School of International and Public Affairs, Department of Economics, and Department of Political Science. While CJEB is an independent and nonpartisan research center that takes an objective stance on political or economic policies, we encourage our researchers and scholars to hold their own individual perspectives. Funding and resources are provided by corporate sponsors, foundations, individuals, Columbia Business School, and Columbia University.
CJEB is a research organization widely recognized for its vigorous research activities, international symposia, conferences, and lectures, held in person in New York City and Tokyo, and online, which provide prominent speakers from the public and private sectors a forum for collaboration and reflection on Japan, the United States, and the global economy.
As an independent and nonpartisan research center, CJEB takes an objective stance on political or economic policies. At the same time, we encourage our researchers and scholars to hold their own individual perspectives. We maintain longstanding connections with many influential Japanese and Asian corporations, business professionals, scholars and government officials.
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