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Foreign Direct Investment in Japan
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Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Time:7:00p.m. (Talk will start at 7:30p.m.) Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus,Mita 502 & 503
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Speaker: Naoyuki Haraoka
Moderator: Robert Dujarric
Admission: Free (Open to general public) RSVP:icas@tuj.temple.edu *If you RSVP you are automatically registered. If possible, we ask you to RSVP but we always welcome participants even you do not RSVP.

Naoyuki Haraoka, Executive Managing Director of the Japan Economic Foundation, will discuss foreign direct investment (FDI) in Japan, focusing on how FDI in Japan has changed in the past decades, its role in the economy, and its future.



Haraoka-san joined METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry) after graduating from the University of Tokyo. He held numerous positions, including head of the JETRO office in San Francisco. During his career he also served on the staff of the OECD and at the Japanese mission to the OECD, and also graduated from Princeton University with an MPA. Since 2007 he has been the Japan Economic Foundation's Executive Managing Director. (for more information on the Foundation, please visit http://www.jef.or.jp/ )

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