Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on April 8.

*Please register at gripsforum[at]grips.ac.jp by April 5th
(Fri) without changing the title.
*If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car information (type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus entry permission.

Date: Monday, 8th April, 2013
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS　Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor
Speaker: Dr. Masahiko Aoki, Tomoye and Henri Takahashi Professor Emeritus Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Theme: “Understanding China’s Institutional Process in a Historical Perspective”
Language: English, (Japanese simultaneous interpretation provided)
Fee: Free

Is China’s development sustainable? History and my theory tell that it crucially hinges on ways how the unique institutional process will evolve from now on.

Speakers’ Profile:
Professor Emeritus, Stanford University and Kyoto University Senior Fellow at Stanford University President, the International Economic Association
(1998-2011)

*** GRIPS Forum ***
Since its establishment in 1997, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), as the only graduate school in Japan specializing in policy research, has promoted education and research on a wide range of policy issues.
Utilizing our vast policy network, this Forum invites leaders from various fields including government, academia and business, as well as staff from our own faculty, to deliver lectures on current policy concerns.
The Forum welcomes attendance of GRIPS faculty and students as well as participants from outside the university. Simultaneous interpretation will be available (Japanese/English).

For Access & Map to the GRIPS campus: http://www.grips.
ac.jp/about/access.html
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677
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For registration and inquiries, please contact: Ms. Iso

gripsforum[at]grips.ac.jp or 03-6439-6037
http://www.grips.ac.jp/
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