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2023.8.1-8.2 Participated in NBER Japan Project Meeting, Summer 2023.
  Program Here
  Date: August 1-2, 2023
  Venue: Asian Development Bank Institute, Kasumigaseki Building 8F, 3-2-5, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6008, Japan
  Organizers: Shiro P. Armstrong, Charles Yuji Horioka, Tsutomu Watanabe, and David Weinstein
2023.7.10-7.14 Participated in NBER Summer Institute (International Finance and Macroeconomics, and Monetary Economics).
2023.6.5-6.6 Participated in East Asian Seminar on Economics, 2023 as a co-organizer.
  Program Here
  Date: June 5-6, 2023
  Venue: ADBI, Kasumigaseki Building 8F, 3-2-5, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6008, Japan
  Organizers: Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose
2023.5.31-6.1 Participated in 2023 BOJ-IMES Conference.
  2023 BOJ-IMES Conference:
Old and New Challenges for Monetary Policy

  Date: May 31 – June 1, 2023
  Venue: Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan
2023.5.29 Participated in 2023 CJEB Tokyo Confernce as a moderator for Panel Ⅰ.
  2023 CJEB Annual Tokyo Conference “The Need for Innovation: Digitalization, Sustainable Cities, and Reforming Higher Education”
  Date &Time: Monday, May 29, 2023 | 1:15 – 6:30 p.m.
  Venue: Otemachi Financial City Conference Center
  <Keynotes>
  ・”Digital Transformation in Japan: Navigating Key Challenges” KONO Taro, Minister for Digital Transformation; Minister for Digital Reform; Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety; Minister in charge of Civil Service Reform, Government of Japan
  ・”The 21st Century University: An Enduring Foundation for Talent, Education, Discovery, and Innovation Launches a New Tradition of Impact” Mary C. Boyce, Provost; Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
  <Panel I: “Higher Education for Innovation”>(1:55 – 3:20 p.m.)
  Panelists: Mary C. Boyce
       Teruo Fujii, President, The University of Tokyo
       Miguel Urquiola, Dean of Social Science; Professor of Economics, Columbia University
  Moderator: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University
  CJEB Events Arcives
2023.5.9 Participated in Japan Society, 'ESG Investing: Its History, Practice & Future' as as a speaker.
   “ESG Investing: Its History, Practice & Future”
  Date &Time: Tuesday, May 9, 9 am ET
  Venue: Live Webinar
  Speakers: Keiko Honda, Adjunct Professor and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
  Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds & Associate Director, Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School
  Moderator: Joshua W. Walker, Ph.D., President & CEO, Japan Society
2023.4.19 Lecture by Haruhiko Kuroda, 'Unconventional Monetary Policy'
   “Unconventional Monetary Policy”
  Date &Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 6:00 – 7:15 PM
  Venue: Cooperman Commons, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School
  Featuring: Haruhiko Kuroda, Former Governor, Bank of Japan
  Moderator: Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University; Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB
  Welcome Remarks: David E. Weinstein, Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University
  CJEB Events Arcives
2023.4.17 Lecture by Haruhiko Kuroda, 'The Future of the International Monetary System'
  “The Future of the International Monetary System”
  Date & Time: Monday, April 17, 2023 | 5:30 – 7:00 PM
  Venue: Room 1501, International Affairs Building, Columbia University
  Remarks by: Haruhiko Kuroda, Former Governor of the Bank of Japan (March 2013 – April 2023)
  Dialogue with: Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1994-1996)
  Moderator: Takatoshi Ito
  CJEB Events Arcives
2023.4.14 Asian Economic Policy Review (AEPR) conference as a co-organizer, chair of two sessions, and a discussant on the paper.
Conference papers will be published in AEPR, vol.19, no.1, January 2024.

Media

■ 2023.8.23 Project Syndicate column was published.
  “Is Japan-style Deflation Coming to China?”

■ 2023.8.18 Apperared on CNBC.
  
Video Here(CNBC website)

■ 2023.7.25 Project Syndicate column was published.
  “How Should Japan Respond to Inflation?”

■ 2023.7.23 Apperared on Bloomberg TV.
  ”Former Advisor to Japanese PM on BOJ Decision”
  Video Here(Bloomberg Website)

 2023.6.19-22  Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo of School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, visited Japan on June 19-22.
  I accompanied her in the recruiting meetings at several universities. At Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP), University of Tokyo, she made a presentation promoting a dual degree program between SIPA and GraSPP, which was taken up in World Business Satellite, TV Tokyo on June 21.
  Video Here (Subscriber to TV Tokyo Business on Demand is required to watch the archived video)

■ 2023.6.30 Project Syndicate column was published.
  “The Will, but Not the Way, to Increase Japan’s Defense Budget”

■ 2023.6.13 Apperared on Bloomberg TV, ‘Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia’.
  ”Columbia University’s Ito on BOJ Policy”
  Video Here(Bloomberg Website)