Japan-Russia Round-Table Meeting (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

Participation in the Japan-Russia Joint Symposium (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Meeting with Yevgeny Primakov, President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Tokyo, Research Division Director Vladimir Ivanov)

Hosting of a group visiting Japan from the Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University (Sado and other locations, External Relations Division Deputy Director Hisashi Sato)

Meeting of Directors and Assessors of ERINA

ERINA Business News Vol.48 published

Participation in the Korean Energy Economics Institute's International Symposium on Northeast Asian Energy Cooperation (Seoul, Research Division Director Vladimir Ivanov)

Participation in a meeting of the Board of Assessors of the Japan-China Economic Association (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

25^th Meeting of Directors and Assessors of the Japan-Russia Foundation for Cooperation in Medicine and Healthcare (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Symposium on China's Energy Problems and Resource Development in Siberia and Far Eastern Russia (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Survey of Macro-Economic Trends in the ROK and the Potential for a Japan-ROK FTA (Seoul, Associate Senior Economist Tomoyoshi Nakajima)

Speech to the Niigata Prefecture External Science and Technology Exchange Association (Niigata City, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

30^th Exchange Meeting of the Intellectual Collaboration Group to Promote Market-Oriented Economies (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Northeast Asia Economic Committee meeting (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

8^th seminar for supporting members (co-organized with NICO; speaker: Yasushi Kaito, Advisor, NEC)

Visit by delegation from the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements

Niigata Japan-Russia Energy Forum 2005 (Toki Messe)

Participation in the Working Group Planning Meeting on Future Multilateral Economic Engagement with the DPRK (Honolulu, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)

Video conference organized by the Nizhny Novgorod Japan Center (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

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Workshop on Promoting the Formation of the Northeast Asian Economic and Cultural Exchange Zone (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Round-Table Meeting with Tourism Practitioners From Khabarovsk Territory (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

apan-Russia Round-Table Meeting (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

Marine Security Workshop (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Symposium to commemorate NIRA's 30^th anniversary (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

Visit by delegation from Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences

Japan Association for Trade with Russia and Central-Eastern Europe (ROTOBO) training program on tourism development (Niigata City and other locations, External Relations Division Deputy Director Hisashi Sato)

7^th seminar for supporting members (co-organized with JOPCA) Northeast Asia: Leading the Way to a New Age (Hotel Nikko Niigata)

Aomori Port Internationalization Conference Vladivostok - Aomori Ferry Seminar (Vladivostok, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi and others)

Seminar on Investment, Finance and the Property Market in Russia (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

ERINA Report Vol.62 published

Dispatch of a lecturer to lead the JICE training course on woodwork (Khabarovsk City)

Participation in the Korea Maritime Institute International Seminar on the Promotion of Pyeongtaek Port (Pyeongtaek, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi)

5^th Tokyo Seminar on the New Northeast Asia (Capitol Tokyu Hotel, Tokyo)

Attendance at the board meeting of the Japan-China Northeast Development Association (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Display booth at the Manufacturing Network Exchange Fair in Tsubame-Sanjo (Messepia Exhibition Center, Researcher Katsufumi Ogure)

Speech for Northern Territories Day (Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Speech at a meeting of the Russian Far East Exchange Network (Niigata City, External Relations Division Deputy Director Hisashi Sato)

Visit to ERINA by Dalian Yuanyu Trade Co., Ltd.

Participation in the Niigata Association of Corporate Executives Tohoku Block Conference (Niigata City, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

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Exchange of information with research institutions in the ROK (Seoul, Researcher Mitsuhiro Mimura)

ERINA Business News Vol.47 published

Participation in a meeting of the Exploratory Committee on Attracting Chinese Businesses and Capital Imports (Niigata City, Associate Senior Researcher Masayuki Tsukuba)

Meetings concerning the 2005 Niigata Energy Forum (Moscow, Research Division Director Vladimir Ivanov)

Appointments including participation in the honorary degree conferment ceremony held by the Economic Research Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Khabarovsk and other locations, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Dispatch of a lecturer to lead the JICE training course on PR and TV commercials (Khabarovsk City)

Japan-Russia Round-Table Meeting (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Seminar on Sustainable Tourism Development in Northeast Asia (Prof. Wolfgang Arlt, Stralsund University of Applied Sciences)

4^th Tokyo Seminar on the New Northeast Asia (Tokyo, American Center)

Visiting Researcher Zhao Yuhong joins ERINA (from the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences)

Participation in a meeting of the Japan Institute of International Affairs Japan-China Energy Council (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Speech at the Institute for International Trade and Investment (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Meeting of the Far Eastern Russia Business Information Network (Niigata City)

Reception to celebrate the New Year, organized by the Japan-China Economic Association (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

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Participation in the Niigata Prefecture Tourism Rehabilitation Conference (Niigata City, External Relations Division Director Masayuki Nakagawa)

Japan-Russia Round-Table Meeting (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Participation in the Main Policy Conference of the Council on an East Asian Community (Tokyo, External Relations Division Director Masayuki Nakagawa)

Participation in the International Donghae Port Symposium organized by the Korean Association of Shipping and Logistics (Donghae, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)

6^th seminar for supporting members (Bandaijima Building, Dr James Chin-Kyung Kim, President, Yanbian University of Science and Technology)

3^rdTokyo Seminar on the New Northeast Asia (Tokyo, United Nations University)

ERINA Report Vol.61 published

Survey regarding international ferry services (France - Finland - Russia, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi)

Lecture at Keiwa College (Niigata, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Visit to ERINA by Dr. Boris Saneev, Deputy Director, Energy Systems Institute (Irkutsk, Russia)

Hosting of a delegation from Vostok Energo (power stations in various regions, External Relations Division Deputy Director Hisashi Sato)

Forum on Promoting International Tourism in Northeast Asia (co-organized with the Northeast Asia Tourism Association, Tokyo, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi and others)

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Accompanying a delegation from Roshydromet (the Federal Service of Russia for Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of the Environment) (Tokyo, Researcher Shoichi Ito)

Internal exchange of opinions regarding the regional characteristics of ERINA's projects

Attendance at a reception to commemorate the 80^th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Mongolia (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Publication of the Northeast Asia Watch mail magazine begins (published every other Friday)

ERINA Business News Vol.46 published

Lecture on promoting use of Shichiri-nagahama Port (Hirosaki, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and Visiting Researcher Shingo Narumi)

34^thMeeting of Directors of the Japan-China Northeast Development Association (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Dispatch of a lecturer to lead the JICE training course on commercializing new technologies (Khabarovsk Territory)

11^thMeeting of the 2004 Tokyo Foundation Policy Forum (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Visit to ERINA by Professor Pavel Minakir, Director of the Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Japan-Russia Round-Table Meeting (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Visit to ERINA by Professor Peter Baklanov, Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pacific Institute of Geography)

Participation in the 5^thPolicy Conference of the Council on East Asian Community: Financial Cooperation and Cooperation in Trade and Investment in East Asia (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Assistance at the Niigata Business Messe 2004 (Niigata City, Researcher Dmitry Sergachev)

Speech at Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Participation in the Trilateral ROK - Japan - China Seminar organized by the Incheon Development Institute (Incheon, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)

Participation in the 31^st Meeting of the Japan-China Northeast Development Association's Northeast Asia Economic Committee (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Visit to ERINA by the mayors of Khabarovsk and Birobidzhan

Visit to ERINA by a reporter and photographer from the Priamurskiye Vedomosti newspaper (based in Khabarovsk)

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Participation in the Aomori Prefecture Shichiri-nagahama Port special business survey mission to China (Dalian, Visiting Researcher Shingo Narumi)

Participation in the Annual Meeting of the International Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation (Vienna, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)

Participation in the 4^thPolicy Conference of the Council on East Asian Community (Tokyo, Secretary-General Katsuo Sasagawa)

ERINA Report Vol.60 published

Speech at a meeting of the Niigata Branch of the Nippon Steel Construction Materials Association (Iwamuro, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

JESNA Vol.5 No.1 published

Japan-Russia Round-Table Meeting (Tokyo, External Relations Division Deputy Director Hisashi Sato)

2004 Conference of the Japanese Association for Russian and East European Studies (Sapporo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Speech at a meeting of the Committee on International Affairs of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Participation in the 16^th Hokkaido Conference for North Pacific Issues (Sapporo, Researcher Mitsuhiro Mimura)

Participation in the 1^stWorld Conference on Green Purchasing (Sendai, Visiting Researcher Enkhbayar Shagdar)

Speech at a meeting of the General Policy Research Society's Economists' Club (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Participation in the Tsubame Chamber of Commerce and Industry Study Mission to the Russian Far East (Researcher Dmitry Sergachev)

Association for Japan Sea Rim Studies 10^thAnniversary Academic Conference (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

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Speech at the Seminar on Use of Niigata and Naoetsu Ports (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Participation in the Renmin University China - Cambridge Conference on Northeast Asia (Beijing, Researcher Shoichi Ito)

Speech at the University of Hyogo "The Japan Sea⁄East Sea Rim Economic Subregion and Business Initiatives" (Himeji, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

ERINA Business News Vol.45 published

5^thseminar for supporting members (Bandaijima Building, Professor Koji Nakatsu, College of Comprehensive Business Administration, Osaka University of Commerce)

11^thmeeting to exchange opinions with the Managerial Committee and Supporting Members (Toki Messe)

Participation in a business mission organized by the Niigata Hand Tool Cooperative Association (Khabarovsk, Researcher Dmitry Sergachev)

Participation in the Liaoning Institute of Social Sciences 2004 Conference on The International Regional Economy, Social Cooperation and Development in Northeast Asia (Shenyang, Researcher Mitsuhiro Mimura)

Appearance on NHK radio programme "Hello from Vladivostok" (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Participation in the Tohoku Economic Federation Economic Mission to Northeastern China (External Relations Division Deputy Director Toshihiko Nakamura)

Participation in the Kangwon Development Institute's International ROK - Japan - China Symposium (Yongpyong, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)

Participation in the 13^thNortheast Asia Economic Forum (Seoul, Secretary-General Katsuo Sasagawa)

Workshop on attracting foreign-affiliated businesses to Niigata (third session, ERINA)

Meeting of the Japan-Sakhalin Society (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Visit to ERINA by a delegation of mayors of Chinese cities

Participation in the Conference for Sustainable Development in Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar, Visiting Researcher Enkhbayar Shagdar)

Participation in the Conference for Russian and Japanese Journalists and Academics (Moscow, External Relations Division Deputy Director Hisashi Sato)

Speech at a meeting of the Japan-Sakhalin Society (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

ESCAP Conference of Northeast Asia Transport Experts (Ulaanbaatar, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi)

Visit by delegation of Training for Government Employees of Russia programmed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Symposium on Provincial Approaches to Northeast Asian Economic Exchange in Japan (Tokyo International Forum)

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Survey of the BAM Railway (Russian Far East, External Relations Division Deputy Director Hisashi Sato)

Participation in the Symposium on Exchange of Regional Government among Japan, China and the ROK (Toki-Messe, PR & Planning Office Manager Toshihiko Nakamura)

China survey relating to research into attracting investment by foreign-affiliated companies (Northeast China, Associate Senior Researcher Masayuki Tsukuba)

Participation in round-table meeting for Perspectives on East Asian Community and ASEAN (Tokyo, Vice Director General Masayuki Nakagawa)

Research presentation by Dong Li Yan, visiting researcher from Jilin Province Social Science Department

Participation in the Liaoning Institute of Social Sciences training program relating to the DPRK Accounting Law (Shenyang, Researcher Mitsuhiro Mimura and others)

Institute of East Asian Studies 8^th International Symposium on East Asia (Tianjin, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi)

Participation in Jilin University's Conference on Peace and Development in Northeast Asia (Changchun, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

Participation in the Northeast Asia Tourism Forum (Dalian, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi and others)

Visit to ERINA by Professor Nodari Simonia, Director-General of IMEMO. 2nd Working Meeting on Phase 2 of ERINA's energy security project

Chinese port survey (Jinzhou, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi and others)

2^nd Tokyo Seminar on the New Northeast Asia (Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo)

ERINA Annual Report published

ERINA Report Vol.59 published

Presentation by internship students from Monterey Institute of International Studies

Visit by representatives of the Ocean University of China's Ocean Development Research Center

Participation in the 11^th Japan-Russia International Symposium on Cooperation in Medicine and Healthcare (Niigata City, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Inaugural meeting of the Northeast Asia Transport Corridors Network (Tokyo, Secretary-General Katsuo Sasagawa and others)

2^nd World Congress of Korean Studies (Pyongyang, Researcher Mitsuhiro Mimura)

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Speech to the Niigata Federation of Companies for International Relations (Toki Messe, Associate Senior Researcher Masayuki Tsukuba)

4^th seminar for supporting members

ERINA Business News Vol.44 published

Japan-Russia Round-Table Meeting (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

Accompanying the Khabarovsk Technocenter Mission (Tokyo, Niigata, External Relations Division Deputy Director Hisashi Sato)

Mongolian Free Trade Zone survey (Mongolia, Researcher Mitsuhiro Mimura)

2^nd Policy Session of the Council on an East Asian Community (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Russian Far East Business Information Network (2^nd session, Niigata City)

8^th st Asia Economic Conference Organizing Committee (Ulaanbaatar, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

Lecture at the Niigata Prefecture Bureau of Public Enterprise Round-Table Meeting on Niigata Industry (Toyama City, PR & Planning Office Manager Toshihiko Nakamura)

Visit to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Workshop on attracting foreign businesses to Niigata (2^nd session, ERINA)

Participation in the Slavic Research Center's Summer 2004 International COE Symposium (Sapporo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Visit to ERINA by a delegation of representatives from Vladivostok Port

Workshop on the Tumen River Transport Corridor (Vladivostok, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi and others)

Meeting of the Organizing Committee for the NPO the Northeast Asia Transport Corridors Network (Tokyo, Secretary-General Katsuo Sasagawa and others)

Participation in the 33rd Meeting for Trustees of the Japan-China Northeast Development Association (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Participation in the Niigata Prefecture Council on Promoting Internationalization (Niigata City, Secretary-General Katsuo Sasagawa)

Participation in a symposium organized by the Export-Import Bank of Korea and the Korea Institute for National Unification (Seoul, Researcher Mitsuhiro Mimura)

Participation in the Northeast Asia Economic Forum's Kanamori Committee (Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

Participation in the Conference on CDM in China (Beijing, Visiting Researcher Enkhbayar Shagdar)

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Participation in the Niigata Prefecture Council on Promoting International Resource Recycling (Niigata City, External Relations Division Deputy Director Toshihiko Nakamura)

1^st Policy Session of the Council on an East Asian Community (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Participation in the Workshop on Northeast Asia's Natural Gas Trade (Beijing, Research Division Director Vladimir Ivanov)

Visit to ERINA and lecture by Alexander Losyukov, Russian Ambassador to Japan (Toki Messe)

FY2004 1^st Meeting of the Board of Trustees and External Assessors (Toki Messe)

3^rd seminar for supporting members and Regional seminar (Niigata City)

Participation in the Conference for Experts on Economic Cooperation and Institutional Issues in Northeast Asia (Honolulu, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)

Participation in the RIETI Policy Symposium (Keidanren Kaikan, Secretary-General Katsuo Sasagawa)

Participation in the 7^th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (Washington, D.C., Associate Senior Economist Tomoyoshi Nakajima)

1^st Tokyo Seminar on the New Northeast Asia (Todofuken Kaikan, Tokyo, Niigata Governor Ikuo Hirayama and others)

Mission to Inspect Projects Relating to the Creation of a Niigata - China Business Model (Northeastern China, Deputy Secretary-General Masayuki Nakagawa and others)

Lecture at the general meeting of the Niigata East Port Area Development Promotion Council (Niigata City, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

ERINA Report Vol.58 published

Regional seminar (Niigata City)

Seminar on Regional Economic Cooperation and Security in Northeast Asia (Ritsumeikan University, in partnership with KIEP)

Participation in the Subcommittee Considering the Development of a Hub for a Northeast Asian Information Network (Sendai, External Relations Division Deputy Director Toshihiko Nakamura)

Participation in the Niigata City Conference on a General Strategy for Creating Employment and Revitalizing Industry (1st session, Deputy Secretary-General Masayuki Nakagawa)

Internship students from the Monterey Institute of International Studies begin program at ERINA (Chris Hulick, Yoo-Sun Chun)

Japan-Russia Round-Table Meeting (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

Niigata Association of Corporate Executives 10th Anniversary Party (Niigata City, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

International Conference for Renewable Energies (Bonn, Researcher Shoichi Ito)

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ERINA Business News Vol.43 published

Workshop on attracting foreign businesses to Niigata (1^st session, ERINA)

2^nd seminar for supporting members

Participation in the Ceremony Commemorating the 25^th Anniversary of the Friendship and Cooperation Agreement Between the Cities of Harbin and Niigata (Niigata City, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

Participation in a KIEP symposium (Seoul, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)

Participation in the Japanese Business Mission to the Russian Far East (External Relations Division Deputy Director Hisashi Sato)

Moscow Symposium on the New Northeast Asia (in partnership with IMEMO)

Participation in the Niigata Prefecture Joint Public-Private Sector Study Mission to Russia (Russian Far East and Moscow, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

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Participation in the Boao Forum for Asia (Hainan Province, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)

Russian Far East Business Information Network (1^st session, Niigata City)

Secondment to our exchange partner, the Monterey Institute of International Studies (Researcher Mitsuhiro Mimura)

Training program commissioned by the Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE) (Khabarovsk, convenience store development)

Japan-Russia Round-Table Meeting (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

ERINA Report Vol.57 published

Participation in the inaugural meeting of the Committee on Inviting President Putin to Niigata (Secretary-General Katsuo Sasagawa)

Participation in the Sano Fujisaburo Memorial Meeting (Niigata City, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)

Visit to ERINA by a group visiting Japan on the Japan-China Journalists Exchange Program, sponsored by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association

1^st seminar for supporting members