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The Center on Japanese Economy and Business and its Program on Alternative Investments organized a conference titled “The Financial and Economic Futures of Japan and the US” from 1:30 p.m. to 6:10 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, 2009 at the Hotel Okura Tokyo in Japan.

Videos of this conference are available below.  Click here for the videos in Japanese. 

Welcoming Remarks

Hugh Patrick, Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School

Panel I: Executive Roundtable: A Corporate Perspective on the Global Economy

Participants:  Richard Folsom, Representative Partner, Advantage Partners; Susumu Kato, President and CEO, Sumitomo Corporation; Charles D. Lake II, Chairman, Aflac Japan; Yuzaburo Mogi, Chairman and CEO, Kikkoman Corporation; Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Vice Chairman and Representative Director, Toyota Motor Corporation; and Hugh Patrick

Panel II: What New Regulatory Arrangements Are Necessary?

Participants:  Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Columbia Business School; Merit E. Janow, Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law & International Affairs, School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University; Louis Forster, President, Cerberus Japan K.K.; Atsushi Saito, President & CEO, Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc.; Takafumi Sato, Commissioner, Financial Services Agency; and Kazuo Ueda, Professor, University of Tokyo

Panel III: What is the Future for Alternative Investments?

Participants:  Kats Ashizawa, CEO, GCM Investments; FT Chong, Managing Director, AIG Investments; Alicia Ogawa, Senior Advisor, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School; Akio Kawamura, Counsel, Nishimura & Asahi; Takashi Oyama, Adviser for Global Strategy of the Norinchukin Group, The Norinchukin Research Institute; and Christopher Wells, Partner, White & Case LLP

Concluding Remarks

David Weinstein, Carl S. Shoup Professor of Japanese Economy, Columbia University