Contribution of piece entitled “The Actual State of the Mystery-Shrouded DPRK Economy and the Potential for the ‘Introduction of a Market Economy’ ” to “Economist Weekly” 7 February edition (Research Division Director Mitsuhiro Mimura)
Participation in the Niigata Prefecture Council for the Promotion of the Utilization of Shipping Routes across the Sea of Japan (Research Fellow Zhu Yonghao)
Presentation entitled “The Current Status of and Future Prospects for the Development of the Tumen River Area” at the 22nd Korean Scholars Forum (Tokyo, Research Fellow Zhu Yonghao)
Special emergency seminar (FY 2011 6th seminar for supporting members): “Northeast Asia in 2012: How Should We View the Two Major Changes?” (ERINA Deputy Director-General Tadashi Sugimoto and Research Division Director Mitsuhiro Mimura)
Contribution of piece entitled “The 12th International Conference on Northeast Asian Natural Gas and Pipelines” to the January 2012 edition of “The Piping Engineering”, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Senior Research Fellow Hirofumi Arai, and Kazuhiko O’Hashi of NAGPF)