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Tokyo Forum

Global Policy Initiative (GPI) Tokyo Forum
Possibilities and Challenges for Public Policy in Japan
with Implications for Globalization

Organized by: Global Policy Initiative (GPI)
Supported by: Policy Space and Younglions

Date: July 21, 2007

Time: 1:00- 6:10 p.m.
Location: Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan

   cl_004.gif Full Agenda (in Japanese only)

   cl_004.gif Summary (in Japanese only)


Agenda 
1:00- Registration 
1:30-2:00 Opening
Keisuke Nakashima, GPI Co-Director
Mika Shimizu, GPI Co-Director
Makiko Ueno, GPI Senior Adviser
Kyoichi Marukusu, Chief Editor, Policy Space
Kouhei Suzuki, Representative, Younglions
 
2:00-2:40 Keynote Address
Hirotsugu Koike, President, Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei), Europe
  "The Challenge of Globalization to Public Policy―A Perspective from Europe"

Keynote Speaker: Hirotsugu Koike
2:40-3:40 Panel I: Seeking for a Mechanism to Engage Citizens in Global Public Polcy Formation
Moderator
Makiko Ueno, Professor of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
  "Addressing the Issue" (in Japanese only)

Speakers
Masako Ikegami, Professor & Director, Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS), Stockholm University
  "Foreign & Security Policy and Roles of Thinktank in Europe"
Kyoichi Marukusu, Chief Editor, Policy Space and Professor of Social Sciences, Mejiro University
  "Seeking for a Mechanism to Engage Citizens in Global Public Polcy Formation―The Current State in Japan" (in Japanese only)
Mika Shimizu, Researcher, Nomura Research Institute, America
  "The Deepening of Globalization and Public Policy―A Case of the United States" (in Japanese only)

Panel 1: (from the left) Marukusu, Ikegami, Shimizu, Ueno
3:40-3:55 Contact Break 
3:55-4:55 Panel II: The Challenge of Global Aging and the Current State of Policy Coordination in East Asia
Moderator
Keisuke Nakashima, Research Associate, Global Aging Initiative, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Speakers
Takao Komine, Professor of Social Science, Hosei University
  "How Demography Will Reshape Asia" (in Japanese only)
Atsushi Seike, Professor of Labor Economics, Keio University
  "Towards a Life-long Active Society"
Naohiro Yashiro, Professor of Economics, International Christian University
  "Creating An Economic Social Structure Befitting A Rapidly Aging Society"

Panel II: (from the left) Kominie, Seike, Yashiro
4:55-5:55 Panel III: Issues for "East Asian Community" in the Context of Energy and Environment: The Current State and Challenge of Cooperation
Moderator
Masanari Koike, Visiting Lecturer, Nihon University and Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo

Speakers
Hideaki Fujii, Senior Economist, Research Center for Environment and Development, Mitsubishi Research Institute
Shoichi Itoh, Associate Senior Researcher, Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA)
Kei Karasawa, Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan University and Adviser, International Education Program, Tokyo International University
Aki Naganuma, Journalist and Staff Reporter, Tokyo-Chunichi Shimbun Washington D.C. Bureau
  "Interest of the United States and the Current State of Cooperation"

Panel III: (from the left) Itoh, Koike, Fujii
5:55-6:10 Closing
Kei Karasawa, GPI Senior Adviser

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