Japan Center News

October 12: "Japan's Emerging M&A Market: Defensive Measures, Judicial Review,and Insider Trading." Summary now available.

On Thursday, October 11, 2007, the Center on Japanese Economy and Business and the Japan Business Association of Columbia Business School cosponsored a zadankai (roundtable discussion) entitled “Issues in Japanese Pension Fund Management”

October 12: 6th New York Conference of R&I

Hedge Funds World Japan 2007 in Tokyo on December 4-5, 2007

Professor Hugh Patrick, Director, CJEB, publishes his annual essay on the current state of Japan's economy

PECC Conference on Competition among Financial Centers in the Asia-Pacific (October 15-16, Seoul)

September 20: Mr. Masamoto Yashiro presented "Japan's Problems and Emerging China: A Japanese Banker's Perspective"

September 12: CJEB cosponsored a WEAI Brown Bag Lecture titled "Sustainability of Public Debt: Evidence from Pre-World War II Japan" by Professor Masato Shizume, Professor, Kobe University.

September 13: Professor Gerald Curtis spoke at our lecture series titled "ABE'S GONE...IS THE LDP NEXT?"

September 12: CJEB cosponsored a WEAI Brown Bag Lecture titled "Sustainability of Public Debt: Evidence from Pre-World War II Japan" by Professor Masato Shizume, Professor, Kobe University.