[31st October – 5th November] Participation in the China’s Northeastern Development Strategy and New Possibilities for Sino-Japanese Regional Cooperation study (organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ritsumeikan University) (Harbin, Changchun, Jilin, Beijing, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)
Experts’ Meeting on Energy Resources in Northeast Asia (Bandaijima Buidling, Susumu Abe, Acting President of the Asia Pipeline Research Society of Japan, and others)
[27th – 28th October] Participation in the 14th Meeting of the International Coordinating Council of Transsiberian Transportation (Seoul, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)
Meeting to establish the Executive Committee for the 3rd IFNAT (International Forum of Northeast Asian Tourism) in Niigata (Niigata Central Community Center)
Participation in the Niigata Prefecture Investigative Commission on the Attraction of Foreign Businesses to Niigata (Niigata Prefectural Office, Associate Senior Researcher Masayuki Tsukuba)
[23rd – 27th October] Participation in the conference The Current Situation and Future of East Asian Economic Cooperation (held by KIEP) (Moscow, Researcher Mitsuhiro Mimura)
[23rd – 25th October] Participation in the international conference Prospects for Cross-Border Cooperation in the East Sea Sub-Region (Seoul, Researcher Shoichi Ito)
[17th – 24th October] Dispatch of a lecturer to lead a training program on practical trade, commissioned by the Japan International Cooperation Center (Khabarovsk)
[17th – 23rd October] Participation in the Niigata City Economic Exchange Mission to Far Eastern Russia (Khabarovsk & Vladivostok, Researcher Momoko Horikawa)
[12th – 14th October] Participation in the conference The Russia Far East: Problems of Economic Integration with Asia-Pacific Countries (Vladivostok, General Affairs Division Director Hirofumi Arai)
Visit to ERINA by Djambulat Tekiev, Vice-Chairman of the Primorsky Territory Legislative Assembly, Zhu Yehui, Director of the Tumen River Area Development Administration, People’s Government of Jilin Province, and Cai Xuyang, Deputy Mayor of Hunchun
Participation in the International Workshop on Building an Integrated Infrastructure on the Korean Peninsula, organized by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement (Anyang, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi)
[28th September – 2nd October] Participation in the ESCAP Conference on Promoting Container Transport in the Trans-Asian Railway Northern Corridor (Moscow, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)
[27th – 28th September] Participation in the First Far Eastern International Economic Conference (Khabarovsk, General Affairs Division Director Hirofumi Arai)
[20th – 24th September] Participation in the 6th International Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) (Bangkok, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi)
[20th – 22nd September] Participation in the 2005 Northeast Asia Hi-Tech Exposition and the 2005 Northeast Asia Economic Forum (Shenyang, Research Division Director Vladimir Ivanov)