European Institute of Japanese Studies Academy Seminars
presents:
"Effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake on Japanese People's Worldviews and Subjective Well-Being"
Speaker: Professor Akiko Kamesaka, Aoyama Gakuin University

Professor Akiko Kamesaka currently works on several household panel data constructed in Japan and analyses the changes in Japanese people's subjective well-being.
She was invited to speak as a panelist on the earthquake and Japanese people's subjective well-being at 4th OECD World Forum on "Statistics, knowledge and Policy" measuring well-being for development and policy making held in October 2012.

Dr. Kamesaka is a Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo Japan, School of Business Administration. She has worked as an accountant at a large accounting firm in Tokyo, and has studied at the University of Tokyo graduate school of economics. She has served as a member of Osaka City Council, Kyoto City Council and several other institutions, and currently serves as a temporal member of Council on Customs, Tariff, Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions in Japan. She is currently serving as a visiting research fellow at Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. Her interests include well-being, behavioral economics and finance. She received Ibbotson Associates Japan Research Award at the Asia-Pacific Finance Association / Pacific-Basin Financial Management Society / Financial Management Association joint conference for her research on investor behavior in Japan.

Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Time: 6.30 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. Drink & Snack (served before lecture)
7.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m. Lecture and Discussion
Place: Alfred Nobel Auditorium, Embassy of Sweden
10-3-400 Roppongi 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo
106-0032
Five-minute walk from Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line Roppongi 1-chome Station
Five-minute walk from Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Kamiya-cho Station

Fee: JPY3,000 per person, payable at the door
Free for those who are from sponsoring companies (*)
Free for students, please bring your student ID

Language: English
Please sign up by March 8 (Fri.) via e-mail to eijsjap@gmail.com for the attention of Ms. Futagawa (EIJS Tokyo Office).

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Miki Futagawa
European Institute of Japanese Studies
Tokyo Office
c/o Embassy of Sweden