European Institute of Japanese Studies Academy Seminars
presents:
"Japan's New Trade Policy in Asia-Pacific"

Speaker: Professor Shujiro Urata, Graduate School Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University About the speaker: Dr. Shujiro Urata is Professor of Economics at Graduate School Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. He is also Research Fellow at the Japanese Centre for Economic Research (JCER), Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry (RIETI), and Senior Research Adviser for the Executive Director of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in Jakarta. He is a former Research Associate at the Brookings Institution, an Economist at the World Bank. He specializes in International Economics and Economics of Development.
He has held a number of research and advisory positions including senior advisor to the Government of Indonesia, consultant to the World Bank, OECD, the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Japan.
His book publications in English include Multinationals and Economic Growth in East Asia, co-editor, Routledge, 2006, Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific, co-editor, World Scientific, 2010, Economic Consequences of Globalization: Evidence from East Asia, co-editor, Routledge,2012, and several other publications. Professor Urata received his B.A. in Economics from Keio University in 1973 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University in 1976 and 1978.

About the talk: Promotion of free trade is one of the most important agenda in the third arrow of Abenomics.
Only twenty percent of Japan's total trade value was with FTA partner countries and regions in 2011. Japan entered Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in July but will have to make difficult decisions in order to achieve an ambitious and comprehensive outcome.
In the presentation we will hear Professor Urata's view on the outlook for Abenomics' trade policy and participation in the TPP in order to create further economic growth.
Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Time: 6.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. Drink & Snack
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

(*) EIJS Academy 2013-2014 Sponsoring companies Gadelius Holding Ltd., Sandvik K.K., Höganäs Japan K.K.
and in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden

Please sign up by November 29th (Fri.) via e-mail to eijsjap@gmail.com for the attention of Ms. Futagawa (EIJS Tokyo office)
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