[8th – 10th September] Participation in Portsmouth and its Legacies: An International Conference Commemorating the Centennial of the Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty of 1905 (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Research Division Director Vladimir Ivanov)
Participation in the International Symposium on the Establishment of a Northeast Asian Regional Cooperation Promotion Organization (Dalian, Senior Economist Hisako Tsuji)
[7th – 9th September] Participation in the 2005 International Top Forum on the Development of Former Industrial Bases and the Expansion of the Tourism Industry in Liaoning (Shenyang, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi)
[6th – 8th September] Participation in the energy conference organized by the Far Eastern Center for Strategic Research on Fuel and Energy Complex Development (Vladivostok, Researcher Shagdar Enkhbayar)
[2nd – 6th September] Participation in the 1st China – Northeast Asia Investment and Trade Fair (Changchun, Visiting Researcher Shingo Narumi and others)
[28th August – 4th September] Participation in the Japan Port and Harbour Association Fact-Finding Mission on the Current Status of Ports and Transport in Northeast Asia (Vladivostok & Harbin, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi and others)
Signing of a Cooperation Agreement between ERINA and the Far Eastern Center for Strategic Research on Fuel and Energy Complex Development (Vladivostok)
Signing of a Memorandum of Agreement on academic and scientific collaboration between ERINA and the Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University (Vladivostok)
Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between ERINA and the Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Khabarovsk)
[25th – 28th July] Participation in the Niigata Prefecture Mission to Far Eastern Russia (Khabarovsk & Vladivostok, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida and others)
[22nd – 23rd July] Participation in the UN/ESCAP National Workshop on an Integrated International Transport and Logistics System for Northeast Asia (Vladivostok, Senior Fellow Ikuo Mitsuhashi)
Participation in informal talks with Professor Yoshiaki Nishimura, Vice-Principal of Hitotsubashi University, concerning the current status of and prospects for the Russian economy (Tokyo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Susumu Yoshida)