The Institute of Social Science (ISS), the University of Tokyo is honored to invite you to the following international symposium.

Governance of Contemporary Japan

Date: December 1, 2010 (Wed.), 9:30 – 17:30

Place: The University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus), Faculty of Agriculture, Yayoi Auditorium, Ichijo-Hall

The workshop intends to approach contemporary Japan through the lens of 'governance', taking cognizance of past academic debates on this highly contested concept. After reviewing governance-related discussions in some selected fields in Japan and abroad, we hope to identify problems and issues involved in the conceptualization and to locate state and society of contemporary Japan in a new perspective. This is the second international symposium of our institute-wide projects, following the first one held in 2006, and the first international activity of our newly launched joint research project on governance.

Program:
Governance of Contemporary Japan

December 1st 2010
The University of Tokyo, Hongo
Faculty of Agriculture, Yayoi Auditorium, Ichijo Hall
9:30 Opening & Introduction Akira Suehiro (Director, ISS) Kenji Hirashima (ISS)
10:00~ 11:30 Session: Welfare Governance Margarita Estevez-Abe (Syracuse University, USA) "The Future of Japanese Welfare State"
Hiroko Takeda (University of Sheffield, UK) "Towards a New Food Governance? : Food Policy Reform in Contemporary Japan"
Discussant: Iwao Sato (ISS)
Moderator: Mari Osawa (ISS)
11:40 ~ 12:50 Lunch
13:00 ~ 14:00 Session: Corporate Governance Wataru Tanaka (ISS) "Corporate Ownership and Governance"
Discussant:, Yupana Wiwattanakantang (National University of Singapore)
Moderator: Masaki Nakabayashi (ISS)
14:00 ~ 14:15 Coffee Break
14:15 ~ 16:15 Session: Governance in Asian, European, and Global Context Roland Czada (University of Osnabrück, Germany) "Migrations and European Traditions of Governance"
Kasian Tejapira (Thammasat University,
Thailand) "Governance in Thailand"
Colin Picker (University of New South Wales,
Australia) "The Interaction of WTO Governance and Legal Culture"
Discussant: Junji Nakagawa (ISS)
Moderator: Kaoru Iokibe (ISS)
16:30 ~ 17:30 Podium Discussion: Governance Approaches and Contemporary Japan & Closing Remarks M. Osawa, M. Estevez-Abe, K. Tejapira, R. Czada
Moderators: K. Hirashima, Naofumi
Nakamura (ISS)

Japanese-English simultaneous translation will be provided. NO RSVP required.
For further details and questions please write emails to:
Shakensympo2010@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp