Participation in the Global Centers of Excellence Program–Slavic Research Center (GCOE–SRC) Winter International Symposium (Sapporo, Associate Senior Researcher Mitsuhiro Mimura)
JETRO seminar “The Prospects for the Chinese Economy and the Challenges of Opening-Up Markets” (Tokyo, External Relations Division Director Hisashi Sato, and others)
The Third Japan–Mongolia Public–Private Joint Conference of Trade and Investment (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida, and others)The Third Japan–Mongolia Public–Private Joint Conference of Trade and Investment (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida, and others)
Attendance at the welcoming reception for Xi Jinping, the Vice President of the People’s Republic of China (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)
“Japan’s Administrative and Financial Systems” field trip, International University of Japan Graduate School visit to ERINA (ERINA Meeting Room, Research Division Deputy Director Hirofumi Arai and others)
Lecture entitled “The History of Japan–USSR and Japan–Russia Trade and Exchange”, Niigata University “Considering Different Cultures” (Niigata University, External Relations Division Director Hisashi Sato)
Attendance at the reception to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Consulate-General of the Republic of Korea in Niigata (Hotel Nikko Niigata, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)
Participation in the “Russian Far East Economic Issues Research Group” at the Institute for International Trade and Investment (Tokyo, Research Division Deputy Director Hirofumi Arai)
Participation in sessions of the Niigata general meeting of the Association for Northeast Asia Regional Studies (Daishi Hall, Research Division Director Toshihiko Nakamura and others)
Speaker at the “International Symposium on East Asian Economic Cooperation after the Global Financial Crisis” staged by the Chosun University Institute for East Asian Economy and Graduate School Department of Economics (Gwangju, ROK, Associate Senior Economist Tomoyoshi Nakajima)
[11-13 November] Hosting of the mission of the Rector of the Far East State Transport University, Russia (Tokyo, External Relations Division Director Hisashi Sato)
Address at the international symposium “Environmental Conservation of the Sea of Okhotsk: Cooperation between Japan, China and Russia” (Sapporo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)
Ai Shuqin, Secretary of the Communist Party Committee and senior political work specialists from Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Social Sciences group visit (ERINA, Research Division Director Toshihiko Nakamura and others)