Professor Takatoshi Ito, director of CJEB's Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, wrote the Project Syndicate article "Japan's Delta Desperation." The article discusses the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games unfolding without any major incidents, the trailing but accelerating vaccine rollout, the spread of the Delta variant in Japan, Prime Minister Suga’s general election challenges, and the political and economic outlooks resulting from the current state of the pandemic.
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Takatoshi Ito
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.