Japan Center News
| March 3, 2016
Professor Takatoshi Ito recently participated at IMF's conference, High-Level Conference on Economic Linkages between Asia and Latin America - Opportunities, Challenges and Policies on March 3, 2016.
He was a panelist for the session: "Assessing the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Key Opportunities and Challenges to Integration between Asia and Latin America".
For more information on this conference, please visit the IMF Website below:
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Japan Center News
| March 2, 2016
Professor Takatoshi Ito, associate director of research at CJEB, recently commented on the selling of Japanese government bonds with negative interest rates, with Marketplace.
To read the article, please visit Marketplace's website as linked below:
Why buy bonds with a negative yield?
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Japan Center News
| March 1, 2016
Professor Takatoshi Ito, associate director of research at CJEB, recently interviewed with TV Tokyo to discuss about the G20.
Please visit TV Tokyo's website to view the interview.
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Japan Center News
| February 11, 2016
CJEB's PhD Fellow, Jackson (Guannan) Lu, recently received two awards (Graduate Travel Award & Diversity Fund Graduate Travel Award) from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology for his paper, "Going Out" of the Box: Intercultural Dating Sparks Creativity.
He has also written another paper titled, Foreign Experiences can Increase Immoral Behavior.
Topics: Social Enterprise | Read Article
Japan Center News
| February 1, 2016
Professor Takatoshi Ito recently discussed his views on the Bank of Japan's decision on negative interest rates on Bloomberg TV.
Weighing the Impact of the Bank of Japan's Move
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Japan Center News
| January 13, 2016
Professor Takatoshi Ito was recently featured on a Bloomberg article titled, "Kuroda's Former Deputy Ito Says Japan Can Endure Stronger Yen". He commented that trading the Japanese yen at 120-125 per dollar would be a "comfortable range" for Japan and would not be problematic unless the yen becomes 110 per dollar.
To view the article, please see the link below:
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Japan Center News
| December 16, 2015
East Asia Forum has published a summary of Professor Hugh Patrick's annual essay on the Japanese economy titled "Japan's Abenomics bumps along". The full essay will be available in our 2014-2015 annual report.
For the summary and for other articles written by Professor Patrick on East Asia Forum, please see the links below:
Japan's Abenomics bumps along
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Japan Center News
| December 14, 2015
Professor Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, will be retiring this month (December 2015) from Columbia University. Jeff Kingston at The Japan Times, writes an article, featuring Professor Curtis' retirement.
The article can be found below:
Gerald Curtis, the ultimate insider in Japanese politics, retires
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Japan Center News
| November 2, 2015
Professor Takatoshi Ito recently spoke at a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) event, titled "The Economics of Asia" alongside with Adam Posen, president at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
The Presider was Paul Sheard, chief global economist at Standard & Poor's Head of Global Economics and Research and the Introductory Speaker was Sheila A. Smith, senior fellow for Japan Studies at CFR.
Video & Transcript
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Japan Center News
| October 27, 2015
Professor Takatoshi Ito recently co-authored a paper for the Geneva Reports on the World Economy titled, "Low for Long? Causes and Consequences of Persistently Low Interest Rates". The paper examines the causes and consequences of the unusual low interest rates of this period.
You can access the full paper below:
Low for Long? Causes and Consequences of Persistently Low Interest Rates
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