With the help of 526 class committee volunteers, this year’s event drew a record crowd: 2,400 alumni and guests for the three-day weekend, April 19–21.
CJEB Core Faculty member Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, gave a talk, "Abe and the LDP Are Back. Now What?" on September 25. A video and summary report of the talk are now available.
Our annual Tokyo Conference was held on May 15th at Otemachi Financial City Conference Center. With Governor Kuroda from the Bank of Japan and Dr. Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics as keynote speakers, the conference gathered speakers and guests from a wide range of fields to discuss and debate the future of the Japanese economy. The event was sold out and covered by multiple media sources, which can be viewed from the following links: