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Asian Vocies: Promoting Dialogue between the U. S. and Asia

"Economic Integration in East Asia and Japan's Role"

by

Mr. Kinoshita Toshihiko
School of International Liberal Studies
Waseda University

Discussants:

Mr. Richard Katz
Editor-in-Chief
The Oriental Economist Report

Dr. Adam Posen
Senior Fellow
Institute for International Economics

Moderator:

Dr. G. John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Princeton University

Thursday, June 24, 2004
4:00-6:00 p.m.

at

Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, Choate Room (1st Fl.)
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Reception Will Follow the Seminar

Transcript (PDF format)

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The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program is supported by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation

About the Panelists
-Main Speaker

Mr. Kinoshita Toshihiko is a Professor at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University. He transferred to this position in 2004 after teaching at Waseda's Graduate School of Commerce from 2000. Previously, he served as Executive Director of the Research Institute for International Investment and Development, Export-Import Bank of Japan (renamed the Japan Bank for International Cooperation), where he began working in 1963. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Japan Center for Economic Research, has served as special advisor for A.T. Kearney, and was a visiting associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development. Professor Kinoshita is a member of various committees and study groups sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has acted as an advisor to the government of Indonesia. Professor Kinoshita holds a B.A. from Keio University in Economics. He is the author of numerous publications, including "Japan in East Asia: Asia as an Economic System-How Do We Meet the Globalization Challenge Together?" in International Workshop Report (co-author, 2003), "East Asia's Economy in the 21st Century: from Crisis to Recovery," in Toyo Keizai Shimposha (co-editor, 2000), and "Crisis in Asia: Who's to Blame?" in Look Japan (1998).

-Discussants

Mr. Richard Katz is a Senior Editor at The Oriental Economist Report, a monthly English language newsletter about Japan and a special correspondent for Shukan Toyo Kezai. He has reported on Japan-related issues for over two decades for the printed press, including Diamond Weekly, one of Japan's leading business magazines. As a visiting lecturer in economics, he taught a course for several years on the postwar Japanese economy at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. Mr. Katz received his B.A. in history from Columbia University and his M.A. in economics at New York University. He is author of Japan: the System that Soured (1998), published in Japanese as Kusariyuku Nihon to iu System (1999). His latest book is Japanese Pheonix: The Long Road to Economic Revival(2002), published in Japanese as Fushicho no Nihon Keizai (2002)

Dr. Adam Posen is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics where he focuses on macroeconomic policy in the industrial democracies, G3 economic relations, and central banking issues. Previously he was an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Okun Memorial Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, and an economist in international research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serving on its Independent Task Force on U.S.-Japan Economic Relations. Dr. Posen received his Ph.D. in political economy and government and his A.B. from Harvard University. He is the author of Germany in the World Economy (forthcoming), co-author of Japan's Financial Crisis and its Parallels to U.S. Experience (2000), and author of Restoring Japan's Economic Growth (1998).

-Moderator

Dr. G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Previously he taught at Georgetown University. Dr. Ikenberry also has been a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Dr. Ikenberry is the author of numerous publications, including State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy (2002), After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2000), and Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (1988).

About the Seminar Program

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program seeks to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within the Washington community-voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. The Seminar Program, however, will not be restricted solely to Asia-Pacific issues, or US-Japan relations, but will focus on the broader global questions that confront both parts of the world.

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