Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on April 7.

Please register at Registration Form by April
4(Fri)17：00ｐｍ.
*If you can’t open the registration form, please send an email to gripsforum@grips.ac.jp with your name, affiliation, job title, phone number or email address 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, 7　April, 2014
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS　Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor(http://www.grips.
ac.jp/en/about/access/)
Speaker: Dr. Kenji Shimazaki, Professor of GRIPS
Theme: The Acceleration of an Aging and Shrinking Population in Japan: Society and Policy Challenges
Language: Japanese (English simultaneous interpretation
provided)
Fee: Free

Japan has entered a period in which the population is both rapidly aging and shrinking. The speed at which the population is aging and shrinking will accelerate in the future. Population is the fundamental factor of society and economy, and such a large-scale transformation of the demographic structure has a tremendous effect on various sectors. At the same time, the “experiences” Japan has had and will have are expected to offer valuable suggestions to foreign countries. This lecture aims at discussing multilateral policy challenges Japan currently faces, while clarifying various aspects of unprecedented growth in an aging and shrinking population, based on data used to estimate this population.

Speakers’ Profile:
After graduating from the College of Liberal Arts of the University of Tokyo, Professor Shimazaki joined the Ministry of Health and Welfare-now the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare-in 1978. After assuming the position of Associate Professor of Faculty of Law and Economics of Chiba University, he acted as manager of the Employees’ Health Insurance Division of the Health Insurance Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. He further acted as Deputy Director-General of the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, and Visiting Professor of the University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics. Professor Shimazaki has held the present position since 2007. He obtained a doctoral degree in commerce from Waseda University. His major books
include: Health Care in Japan: Institutions and Policies. (University of Tokyo Press, 2011) (in
Japanese) and The Path to Universal Health Converge:
Experiences and Lessons from Japan for Policy Actions (JICA, 2013).

*** 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).

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For registration and inquiries, please contact: Ms. Iso

gripsforum[at]grips.ac.jp
http://www.grips.ac.jp/
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