Japan Center News

CJEB Director, Professor Hugh Patrick was featured in an article for Reuters Japan

Each year the Center conducts a University-wide competition on behalf of the Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Scholarship Foundation and nominates one Columbia student to receive full tuition and some living expenses for a one-year program of undergraduate or graduate study in Japan. For the academic year 2012-2013, send your application by Wednesday, February 29, 2012.

Professor David Weinstein's opinions on taxes and the Japanese elderly were featured in the November 18, 2011 Economist article, "Whose Lost Decade?"

Columbia University Professor David Weinstein was featured in the Wall Street Journal article "On the TPP and its merits and demerits: Impact on agriculture industry will be severe, but benefits for manufacturing will be vast" on 18 November, 2011.

Save the Date for CJEB's upcoming Tokyo conference, to be held on Monday, May 21, 2012 at Roppongi Academyhills in Tokyo, Japan.

CJEB has moved to the new Centers' Suite in Uris Hall, Columbia Business School.

Professor Gerald L. Curtis's lecture on the political, social, and economic situation in Japan following the Tohoku Earthquake featured in the September 21, 2011 edition of Kyodo News

Professor Hugh Patrick's essay, "Japan??s Economy: Earthquake-Induced Delayed Recovery," discussing Japan's recovery in the wake of the 11 March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, is now available online.

Professor Gerald L. Curtis was featured in an opinion piece by Yoshibumi Wakamiya, editor-in-chief of The Asahi Shimbun

Professor Hugh Patrick made an appearance on NHK BS1's program "Project Wisdom" on Saturday July 30 at 10:00 pm JST. It will be re-broadcast on August 8 and 28.