Ne ws Bul l e tin of the Union of Nati onal
Ec onomi c Assoc i ati ons i n Japan
No.57 2021
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Introductory Comments
Ken’ichi ENATSU・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 1○

On Publishing the 40th Issue of the English Information Bulletin
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Reports on the Use of Assistance for Academic Conference Expenses

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List of Member Association Trustees・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 17○

List of Union Directors・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 20○

List of English Information Bulletin No.40 Editorial Committee Members・・・・・・・・ 20

Introductory Comments
The Union Like Water
Ken’ichi ENATSU
President
Water gives the highest virtue to humans.
The water says,“When you move up, I will move down,
Never marring your strengths.
When you move back, I will pour myself forth,
Never revealing to others your weaknesses.
When you act, I will stand by you,
Never leaving you alone.
When you stop, I will also stand still,
Never disturbing your serenity.
When you flare up, I will light my own flame,
Never throwing water on your passion.
When you cool down, I will calm down,
Never ignoring your coldness.”
What a marvelous existence (water is),Embracing all,Offering due support as necessary.
Recently, I came across this poetic
message by coincidence while browsing
the internet, staying home to avoid the
COVID-19 pandemic. It was written by
a young Southeast Asian global
entrepreneur.
I surmised that this business ownerof a multinational corporation, growing
steadily since it was founded 13 years
ago, not only in the markets ofSoutheast Asia but also in China, Korea,
and Japan, was trying to paraphrase theteaching of Lao Tzu about “the greatest
good like water”. His business remains
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strong

even

under

the

pandemic

SDGs to save the earth’s environment

influence.
Deeply moved by his quote, it
occurred to me that this message
contained a hint for the inevitable role
to be achieved by the study of
economics or, more specifically, theUnionofNational
Economic
Associations in Japan (hereinafter

and to make repeated efforts toeliminate poverty and economic
disparity.

referred to as “the Union”) in theseturbulent times.
Water, being the source of life thatcomprises 60% of the human body,
represents the spirit of putting firstpriority in saving lives.
One of the issues to be challenged
by the study of economics is “to solveand eliminate global poverty andmembers from various professional
fields of economics.
Inspired by the quoted message, I
decided to call this little text “TheUnion Like Water” to express myresolution that the Union should assume
the role of a platform supporting theadvancement of our member societies
who are actively promoting the practical

economic disparity”. We can also lookat this problem by relating it to “water”
and “safe drinking water”, and wecannot ignore the fact that (according to
UNICEF) “2.1 billion people have noaccess to safe drinking water in theirhomes and 4.5 billion people cannot use
hygienic toilets in the world”. This issue

application and research of the study of
economics, with a purpose “to govern
the world well and to save the people
from suffering” (Kei-se-zai-min, where
kei-zai means economics, and se means
the world, and min means the people),upholding our mottos of freedom,
equality, fairness, and neutrality.

The Union has been active for 70
years now, but we remain a small
private academic organization with 62
member societies and more than 35,000

is obviously connected to achieving the2

On the Publication of the 40th Issue, Information Bulletin of
The Union of National Economic Associations in Japan
Yoshiharu KUWANA (Professor Emeritus, J. F. Oberlin University)
Chairman, Editorial Committee
We published the 40th issue of theInformation Bulletin of The Union of
National Economic Associations in

Hiroyuki Nagano, Hideto Akashi,
Keisuke Sasaki, Kazuki Uchino,
Yoshiharu Kuwana, Sairan Hayama,

Japan in December 2020. The bulletin
included articles from 10 academic
societies, namely, Japan Society ofMonetary Economics, The JapaneseSociety of Insurance Science, Japan
Society of Political Economy, The
Japan Section of the Regional Science
Association International, The Japan
Society for Social Science of

Shin’ichiro Watanabe, Midori Kizaki,
and Takashi Oguri were elected as the
Editorial Committee members for the
publication of this issue. The Authoring
Committee members, Ryuzo Miyao,
Hiroyuki Nagano, Kei Ehara, Hiroyuki
Shibusawa, Hiroshi Yoshimi, Kazuko
Yokoyama, Sairan Hayama, Atsushi
Inuzuka, Hisatoshi Houken, andAccounting, Japan Academy ofInternational Business Studies, Japan
Society for Business Ethics, The
Japanese Association of Administrative
Science, Japanese Association for
Chinese Economic and Management
Studies,Accounting
History
Association (Japan). In this issue, weYasuhiro Shimizu, were elected fromthe same societies.
We held two Editorial Committee
meetings.
The first Editorial Committee
meeting was held on February 3, 2020.
At the start of the meeting, we elected
the Chairman of the Editorial

can review the current research trendsof these academic societies by catching
glimpses of their activities in recent
years and the issues to be considered fortheir future activities.
From the respective societies
mentioned above, Kazuhiko Yago,

Committee; then, we reported anddiscussed the agenda of the editing
process and the distribution /transmission. Joining the committee
from Japan Academy of International
Business Studies, J. F. Oberlin
University, I was elected to be the3Chairman of the Editorial Committee.

considered the academic societies for

As for the editing process agenda andmethod of distribution / transmission,
we agreed to generally maintain thesame procedure as we have followed
every year.
Also at the meeting, we reported
that the Bulletin became web-based
only since the 35th Issue and that the it

authoring the articles in the subsequentissue (41st Issue) and determined that
we will ask the following 10 societies:
The Political Economy and Economic
History Society, Japan Accounting
Association, Population Association ofJapan, Japan Society of Human
Resource Management, The Society ofis digitally available to the public on theUnion homepage and J-STAGE. Further,
we reported that every issue of theBulletin since the First Issue publishedin 1980 has been duly recorded forreference and made available to the
public in PDF format on our homepage.
Another issue reported in the same
meeting was that the cover design has

Economic
Sociology,
Japanese
Association
forInternational
Accounting Studies, The Japan Port
Economics
Association,
NipponAcademy of Management, Japan
Academy of Management, The
Accounting and Economic Associationof Japan. We also officially decided thecover design.

been renewed starting with this issue.
The second Editorial Committee
Meeting was held on October 12, 2020.
Though the second meeting wasannually held at the conference hall at
Waseda University, we altered thevenue to hold the meeting via post mailto take precaution for the COVID-19

We intended to include in this issue
the contents of the Academic Forum
held annually by our Union, but the plan
had to be cancelled, much to our regret,because the Academic Forum could not
be held in 2020 due to the spreading of
COVID-19. Obviously, the 40th Issue ofthe Bulletin was largely influenced bypandemic. At this meeting, we firstreviewed the procedure for the final
proofreading of the manuscripts. Next,
we reported and confirmed the editingschedule leading to the publication of
the bulletin and the method of
distribution (transmission). Further, we

COVID-19 and we had to accommodate
to changing the venue of the 2nd
Editorial Meeting to post mail delivery,
yet in spite of the irregularcircumstances, we managed to achieve
its publication. As we mentioned earlier,
we also updated the publication by4renewing

the

cover

design.

The

appreciation to the members of theBulletin’s contents may need to beconsidered in order to create an evenmore attractive Bulletin in the years tocome. Our Bulletin is visible tonumerous researchers worldwide, being
published on the web, so we welcome
further discussions at the Editorial
Committee
Meetingtomake

Editorial Committee and Authoring
Committee, as well as Mr. Paul
Snowden (Professor Emeritus, Waseda
University), who helped us with theEnglish proofreading, and our President
Ken’ichi Enatsu, who supported our
editorial work, and Ms. Yoshiko Ishii,
the Chief Administrator of theforthcoming issues of the Bulletin more
attractive from the global perspective.
Finally, we extend our deep

Secretariat, for making possible thepublication of this bulletin.

International Conference Participation Report

Convention name: World of Shipping Portugal, An International Research
Conference on Maritime Affairs
Venue: Hotel Riviera, Carcavelos, Portugal (Changed to online convention)
Participation period: January 28 to 29, 2021
Hiroshi YAMAMOTO (University of Nagasaki)
Japan Society of Logistics and Shipping Economics
My presentation at the conference
was done on Power Point, based on thefull paper of the proceedings submitted
and accepted in advance, titled ”TheCruise Hub Ports in Japan and a
Feasibility Study on Onboard Cruises“.
In this research, about the possibility ofshifting from inbound cruises with
Chinese tourists to outbound cruises
with Japanese passengers, I specificallyfocused on the sufficient resources of5two ports in Nagasaki Prefecture,for passenger cruises. I did comparative

namely Nagasaki and Sasebo, to makethe target transition.
Though the ports of Yokohama,
Kobe, and Hakata will start
implementing the outbound cruises, I
compared the two ports in Nagasaki
Prefecture with Hakata on the sameisland of Kyushu. The method of

research on the ports of Hakata,
Nagasaki, and Sasebo according tothese parameters. As a result, the ports
in Nagasaki Prefecture had better
facilities than Hakata to some extent,
but they had less advantage ininternational airport and Shinkansen
access. I must admit that in this case, theinvestigation
wasconducting
preliminary research and interviews
concerning the necessary resources andqualities for the ports to handle
outbound cruises, according to thestructuralmodel
consistingofparameters such as backgroundsightseeing spots, transportation accessto international airports and Shinkansen

data acquired were not quite
chronological due to the short history ofJapanese outbound cruises and each of
the parameters were limited because
they depended on hearing investigation.
My final proposing statement on
this topic was the marketing potential
for fly-and-cruise trips utilizing
Nagasaki Airport, a maritime airportbullet trains, as well as port facilities
and CIQ (customs, immigration, andquarantine) to accommodate large ships

with 24-hour operating availability, infuture marine cruise businesses.

Report on Financial Support for Academic Society Meeting I

Report on the Spring Academic Conference Symposiumby The Political Economy and Economic History Society
Akinobu NUMAJIRI (Rikkyo University)
The Political Economy and Economic History Society
Our society held a symposium for
the Comprehensive Research Meetingof the Spring Academic Conference(online, June 13, 2020) on the theme,“The historically recurrent period of‘the foreigner’s problem’ in Japan –exploring the potentials of ‘common
areas’
fromthe‘cohabitation’6perspective”.

Foreignworkers

inof our society presented the status quo

modern Japan have enhanced their role
as low-wage laborers following therevision of the Immigration Control Act,and 2.73 million foreign persons were
working in Japan by the end of 2018,exceeding 2% of the domestic
population. Given this situation, it isdifficult to continue discussing theof foreign laborers in Japan (Takako
Inoue on “Community formation of
newcomer Indians living in the Tokyo
metropolitan area”). In response to theabove 4 research reports, we received
relative comments, that helped extract
further issues for discussion, by Naoki
Odanaka from the comparative“public” space and time of the Japanesesociety based on the imaginary
homogeneous“Japan”.
Inoursymposium, we examined the issue ofthepossibilitiesofbuilding
relationships among peoples withdiverse identities from the “cohabitation”
theory according to Judith Butler.
The symposium consisted of four

economic history perspective and by
EisukeChung,
anonmemberprofessional researcher, from theperspective of the history of Koreansliving in Japan. By attempting to deepen
our understanding of the “the foreigners’
problem” in the context of postwar
Japan by inviting non-academic
scholars to join our discussion, various

parts on the grounds of the problematic
issues presented by Shinji Asada. We
invited professional researchers ofhistorical analysis to report respectively
about the post-World War II to rapid
economic growth, the 1970s to 1980s,
and the 1990s (Seiji Ueda on“Questioning the social absurdity fromsubstantial discussions were exchanged
about the possibility of building new
relationships such as the importance ofconfirming the status quo in relation to
the changing society and economic
conditions in Japan since the 1990s.
Another remarkable point about
our symposium was its delivery; it was

post-war Japan to the present in the
ethnography of ‘mixed-race children’”;Ken’ichi Yasuoka on “Transformationof local communities in the age of‘internationalization’”; Shunsuke Saito
on “The Brazilian community and local
Japanese society”). One of the members

held online by Zoom under the
influence of the spreading COVID-19
pandemic.
Wetransmittedthepresentations that were video recordedin advance, and the Q and A session
collected
questionsfromtheparticipants by utilizing the chat and7

Google form functions with the answers

effective in terms of providing food fordelivered directly online by thepresenting and commenting researchers.
Adopting this style, we could confirm
the attendance properly by having theparticipants apply to us in advance. As aresult, the discussions took placesmoothly without the “Zoom attacks”
we anticipated. I feel that our attempt tothought about changing the style offorthcoming academic symposia.
Lastly but not the least in ourappreciation, we sincerely thank the
UnionofNational
Economic
Associations in Japan for offering us thefinancial support for this convention.

hold the symposium online was also
Report on Financial Support for Academic Society Meeting II

Presentation Report for the 79th Conference
Yoshihiro TOKUGA (Kyoto University)
Chairman, Japan Accounting Association
The 79th Conference of the Japan
Accounting Association was scheduled
to be held from Thursday, September 3
to Sunday, September 6, 2020, at therespective campuses of Hokkaido
University and Hokusei Gakuen
University in Sapporo. However, it washeld online instead under the influence

Atsushi Ogasaka and Deputy Chairman
Yasunobu Kawanishi of the AccountingStandards Board of Japan (ASBJ) togive us their Special Lecture in addition
to the various research presentations.
The lecture mainly consisted of theinfluences of the new coronavirus on
the accounting standards in Japan andof the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ASBJ Session was held
between 15:30 and 17:10 on September
6 under the renewed topic, namely,“The Influences of the Spread of
COVID-19 on Accounting Standards”.
For the occasion, we invited Chairman

overseas as well as the decisions andproblematic issues for ASBJ inemergency situations.
First, the influences on domestic
accounting standards were discussed.
As the COVID-19 became evident as it
spread throughout Japan in March 2020,8

roughly 2,300 corporate organizationsindividual issue for discussion, it was

faced the annual financial settlement ofaccounts. Especially in the case of
ASBJ, it disclosed on April 9 thefinancial estimate titled “Meeting
Minutes: Understanding the COVID-19
Influences in terms of Accounting
Estimation”; at the same time, thecommittee declared the necessity to

explained that for example, theInternational Accounting Standards
Board (IASB) and the U.S. Financial
Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
do not require uniform accounting as aclaim that detracted credit risk, even if
conditions such as reduction ordeferment of loan interest rates occur.

make the best possible estimate ofaccounts based on a tentative standard
model during a time when the future
cash flow prediction was extremely
difficult.
On the other hand, the meeting
minutes pointed out the legal regulatory
problems where the estimation did not
go through the “due process” as

We learned that IASB was based on theInstructional Documents of the 9th IFRS
and COVID-19, the Q & A of FASB
staff and the decision made by the U. S.
Congress (The Coronavirus Aid, Relief,and Economic Security Act). Other
issues discussed in the lecture werelease and hedge accounting, and it wasreported that both the IASB and FASB

corporate actions were restricted, as
well as mentioning intrinsic issues suchas making the disclosure after theaccount settlement date affecting thecorporate account settlement andauditing procedures.
Second, the lecture explained theappropriateness of the existing

were delaying the deadlines of applying
multiple accounting standards andcomments thereof.
Considering
thestatusofaccounting standards development intimes of emergency, we are currently
faced with a problem of revising theoriginal accounting standards, which

accounting standards and the influence
on developing accounting standards
with specific relation to theInternational
Financial
ReportingStandards (IFRS) and the American
Generally
Accepted
Accounting
Principles(US-GAAP). As
anwill put accountability at stake and poseincreased political influences. The
presentation
also
pointedout,
considering the lessons we learned fromthe global financial crisis in 2008, thenecessity for more discussions about the
documents written and agreed upon by9theorganizations

establishingrules in times of emergency and related

accounting standards affecting our
accounting practices.
The special lecture was a rareopportunity for our society members toshare the importance of disclosing the

problematic issues. Finally, I should liketo express my sincere appreciation for
the Union of National Economic
Associations in Japan that provided
financial assistance for this opportunity.

Report on Financial Support for Academic Society Meeting III

Report on the 2020 Research Conventionof the Transcultural Management Society
Fumiyuki MIYAMOTO (J. F. Oberlin University)
Executive Secretary, Transcultural Management Society
We held our annual research
convention on Saturday, November 28,
2020, online via Zoom withafternoon, respectively, on a total of 8
topics. Then, we held a conferment
ceremony of awards from our society,consideration to the coronavirus
pandemic. About 100 participants
attended the conference held from 10:00
to 18:30.
Our MC for this year was Masashi
Arai (Executive Secretary of ouracademic society and Associate
Professor, Faculty of International

and the convention closed with thelecture by the guest lecturer.
I will provide a synopsis of therespective research presentations andguest lecture.
The first presentation by Ms. Aki
Ogane (Master’s Program, Cultural
Resources Research major, University

Relations, Asia University).
The convention started with the
opening speech by our society’s
Chairperson Emiko Magoshi, Professor
and Vice President, J. F. Oberlin
University, followed by 4 researchpresentations in the morning andof Tokyo Graduate School of
Humanities and Social Sciences) wastitled, “Management of Cultural andArtistic Organizations for ClassicalMusic -- Considering the Possibility andProblems of Personal Support inFunding”. The commentator was Mr.
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Jusuke Ikegami (Professor, Faculty ofto help them find jobs overseas. The

Commerce, Waseda University).
The speaker is attempting to
examine through case study andfinancial analysis the necessary
elements necessary for the raison d’etre,status quo, issues, and effective
management of individual contributions
that are an important part of the incomepresentation consisted of the history ofthis association over a decade, its
current issues and future perspective.
The third presentation by Mr. Nao
Tanemura (Former executive officer
and internal audit director, AXA Life
Insurance Co., Ltd.) was titled,“Commonalities in the management

for cultural and artistic organizations
facing administrative difficulty just bydepending on income from ticket sales.
Observing the positive effects ofdividing the time, in view of the casestudies under the COVID-19 crisis, she
proposed a hypothesis of creating a
triangle of sympathy as opposed to the
new category of individual contribution.

practices of global European insurancecompanies and comparisons with USJapan insurance companies -- Based on
work experience”. The commentator
was Atsushi Yashiro (Professor, Facultyof Commerce, Keio University anddirector of our society).
It is common among the insurancecompanies in Europe for the

The second presentation by Ms.
Yukiko Maruyama (President, Global
Women’s Association) was titled,“Global Human Resource Development
Utilizing the Network of Japanese
Residents Overseas”. The commentator
was Ms. Toshiko Suda (Professor,
International Management Sciencemanagement to make policies in topdown style leaving the “down” toconsider the policy implementation.
The concept of change as a valuable
quotient for survival persists. The
research report introduced the methodsof global management based onpractical work experience, such as

major, Aoyama Business School,
Aoyama Gakuin University).
The Global Women’s Association
is a network of Japanese women living
and working abroad, and it wasestablished for the purpose of
supporting women through the network

largescale labor investment based on
cultural diversity.
The fourth presentation by Mr.
Hidemitsu Sasaya (Visiting Professor,
The Graduate School of Information
and Communication) was titled, “A
Study on Intercultural Management by11

Utilizing SDGs”. The Commentator

At the same time, the presentation

was Toyokazu Ono (Former Professor,
Tokai University and director of oursociety).
The presentation reported on
researchabouttheJapanesemanagement philosophy such as CSV(Creating shared value) and Sampoyoshi that defines successful business as

raised the issues related to the laborers,
employers, and intermediaries.
The sixth presentation by Yukiko
Nakagawa (Professor (by special
appointment), Graduate School ofBusiness Design, Rikkyo University)
was titled, “Management of people andorganizations that support the global“good on 3 sides” meaning it is equally
beneficial to the vendor, customer, andsociety), with corporate case studies.
Combining this philosophy with SDGs,
it was proposed that an important factor
can be added to intercultural
management.
The fifth presentation by Mr.
Cheng An-chun (Coordinator, Center

expansion strategy of 176 countries –HUAWEI”. The commentator was Mr.
Norimichi Igawa (Advisor, KUAM Inc.
and director of our society).
The research report consisted of areport on HUAWEI’s best practiceachieved in the area of global strategies
and global personnel system based on
local interviews about the company’sfor Multicultural Public Sphere,
Utsunomiya University) was titled,“Issues of Accepting Foreign Care
Workers in Taiwan -- Focusing on
Disappearance Due to Changes in the
Labor Market”. The commentator was
Satomi Kato (Professor, School ofBusiness Administration, Aichi Institutehistory and the actual condition of its
global HR establishment.
The seventh presentation by Mr.
Naotaka Hirami (Specially Appointed
Professor, Office of Academic andSocialCollaboration,
Hiroshima
University) was titled, “Management
Characteristics That Enable theof Technology).
Addressing the problem of many
missing persons who are illegal resident
workers from overseas working in
nursing care jobs, the research report
defined the reality of these people basedon personal interviews for investigation.

Survival of the Brush Industry in Japan-- An Analogy with the Mexican
Rebozo Industry”. The commentator
was Mr. Chitose Furukawa (Associate
Professor, Facultyof Business
Administration, Aichi University andvice secretary and director (concurrent)12

of our society).

Characteristics”. The commentator was

The report presented and analyzed
rich qualitative data and suggestive datafrom a multifaceted perspective for the
traditional Japanese industry of brushmaking.
The eighth presentation by
Nobutaka Hirabayashi (Professor,
Faculty of International Business

Ms. Motoko Nagao (Professor, Facultyof Commerce, Takushoku Universityand director of our society).
The report verified the alteration in the
Big 5 or Ecogram assessment patternsforindividual
personality
characteristics between normal andEnglish learning conditions. It also

Administration) was titled, “A Study on
ExtractionofPersonality
Characteristics
ConsideringtheLearner'sEgo
Condition
andDevelopment of an English Learning
Service adapted to
Personality

proposedtheeffectivenessof
combining word list ACLs that affectmotivation by individual characteristics
to match the characteristics of the target
users of the English learning service.

We conferred the awards from our society to the following two works:
Publication
Hiroo Takahashi (Professor Emeritus, Hakuoh University)“Everything Originated from Milk-case of Nestle” (Japanese title: 「すべてはミルクから始まった―世界最大の食品・飲料会社『ネスレ』の経営」) Dobunkan, 2019.

Research Presentation
Han Samtaek (Chief Director, Karakuri Research Institute)“A new perspective on understanding the organizational culture of Japan and South
Korea – Focusing on daily conversation-” (Conference presentation, November 24,
2019)
The guest lecture was made by Mr.
Yasuo Nakatani (President & CEO,
Director of the Board, Hitachi Transport
System, Ltd.) under the title, “Logistics
Goes into New Territory – Examining

Hitachi Logistics' Goal of the
LOGISTEED Strategy –“. In addition to
introducing the detailed transition of
Hitachi Logistics in accordance with theconcept of Logistics 4.0, he explained
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the recognition of recent issues and theoccupational categories.

LOGISTEED strategy currently being
implemented as a business challenge.
Considering that the three key strategies
are building smart warehouses, digitaltransport platforms, and digital businessfoundation, it is essential to make acollaborative relationship between
multiple
corporations
beyondI would like to express my appreciation
for the Union of National Economic
Associations in Japan for the financial
support for academic society meetingthat helped us hold a truly worthwhileconvention and greatly supported theoperation and administration of ourresearch conference.

Report on Financial Support for Academic Society Meeting IV

Convention Report: 27th Annual Conference ofJapan Academy of International Business Studies
Hideyuki TAKENOUCHI (Sophia University)
Deputy Director, 27th JAIBS Annual Conference Committee
The 27th annual conference ofJapan Academy of International
Business Studies was held over a twoday period, between November 14 and
15 in 2020. Our convention was held
online at Aichi University, and thecommon topic this year was “The
Future of Automobiles and China –activities going on in China whereremarkable challenges have been madein the 4 new currents: C (Connected), A(Automatic steering), S (Share &services), and E (Electric cars).
In the shared-topic discussion on
the first day of the conference, four
researchers presented on their research.

Where CASE Is Going –”. We
exchanged in-depth discussions about
the future of the automobile industry in
the post COVID-19 world, as we
considered the various issues predicted
to be faced by Japanese companies in
the near future, by focusing on the

We started the presentations withProfessor
Li
Chunli(Director,
International Center for Chinese Studies,
Aichi University) reporting on thereflections and solutions about ourcommon topic, followed by Professor
Takahiro Fujimoto (Director, The
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University of Tokyo Manufacturing

share with us the structure of Korean

Management Research Center) who
gave his special lecture that reported on
the role of the Asian supply chain andbusiness bases in Japan in the COVID19 era. Further, two keynote lectures
were given by Yu Fuquan (Professor,
Tsinghua University; Chairman, FISITAWorld) and Yasuhiro Daisho (Professor

corporate property and other issues.
On the second day of theconference, 33 presentations were madeon free topics by the generalparticipants and graduate students.
Research reports were delivered at the 3
sessions in separate locations, withrelated topics about the market in newly

Emeritus, Waseda University; Chief of
the Committee on Motor Vehicle
Exhaust Emission, Central CommissionforEnvironmental
Examination,
Japanese Ministry of the Environment).
The first keynote lecture reported on theprediction of trends in the developing
Chinese automobile industry and CASE
for automobile industries, and thedeveloping countries, HRM, andcoronavirus related issues. Concurrently,
we held an “Editor’s Forum” where
Professor Katsuhiro Inamura (Aoyama
Gakuin University) discussed the pointsof “what we can do to have our papers
published in academic journals”. In
each of the sessions, heated discussions
were exchanged between the presenting

second keynote lecture discussed theperspectives toward electric automobile
development in the era of CASE.
Thereafter, a panel discussion was heldwith Professor Li as the moderator, withProfessors Fujimoto, Yu, and Daisho as
the panelists. The panel provided us
with lots of knowledge and ideas in bothresearchers, panelists, and the floor
participants.
This was the first time we held ournational conference online, but it was agreat success with a turnout of over 550
participants during the two-day period.
The video of the convention’s sharedtopic presentations and panel discussion

research and practice in the course of
the discussion. Also, we held aninternational exchange forum, where
our guests, Professor Hyun-Do Kim(KAIST Business School) of KAIB andProfessor Eunjung Yeo (Chung-ang
University, Korea), were invited towill be disclosed to the public, and in
the special issue of our academic
journal"International
Business
Research", a paper by each presenter
will be published based on thediscussions that took place on the day ofthe conference. Lastly but not the least15

in our concern, please let me express

made possible to hold our conference

our deep appreciation to the Union of
National Economic Associations inJapan for the financial support thatsuccessfully and to implement the
aforesaid project in order to share theresults of the convention.

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Member Association Trustees
2021.3.31
Accounting History Association, Japan

Isamu IWASAKI

Takashi OGURI

Business History Society of Japan

Shin HASEGAWA

Sachio IMAKUBO

Teizo ANAYAMA

Kazuyoshi UENO

Japan Academy for Asian Market Economics

Mamoru KOBAYASHI

Yoshihito TAKAHASHIJapan Academy for Consumption Economy

Takehiko YASUDA

Tomihiro KATAYAMA

Japan Academy for International Trade and BusinessToshihiko SHINOHARA

Naoshi TAGUCHIJapan Academy of Business Administration

Takashi SAKIKAWA

Zenkai INOUE

Japan Academy of International Business Studies

Kenichi ENATSU

Yoshiharu KUWANA

Japan Academy of Labor and Management

Kayo NAKAGAWA

Kota SHIMAUCHI

Japan Academy of Management

Saburo OTA

Keiichi HASEGAWA

Japan Academy of Multinational Enterprises

Hiroo TAKAHASHI

Shigeto MOROKAMI

Japan Association for Asian Studies

Tomoo MARUKAWA

Kazushi SHIMIZU

Japan Association for Cultural Economics

Kazuko GOTO

Chisako TAKASHIMA

Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics

Takeshi IKEDA

Hiroyasu UEMURA

Japan Association for Management Systems

Takaaki KAWANAKA

Hiroshi YAMASHITA

Yong-ge LIU

Yukiko SUZUKI

Japan Business Communication Association

Yoichi SATO

Takashi MASUYAMAJapan Economic Policy Association

Kohei KOMAMURA

Yasuhiro TSUKAHARA

Japan Logistics Society

Mitsumasa NAKA

Eiichiro IWAO

Japan Port Economics Association

Hideki YOSHIOKA

Toshihiro MATSUO

Japan Risk Management Society

Kazuo UEDA

Katsuyuki KAMEIJapan Scholarly Association for Asian Management

Takahide KOSAKA

Shizuko KATO

Japan Society for Business Ethics

Sairan HAYAMA

Hironori KAWAGUCHIJapan Society for Commodity Science

Shuji OHIRA

Shin OSERA

Japan Society of Business Mathematics

Hitoshi TAKEDA

Yutaka TAKAHASHIJapan Society of Human Resource Management

Mitsuhide SHIRAKIAtsushi SATO

Japan Society of Logistics and Shipping Economics

Nobuaki ENDO

Mariko FUTAMURA

Japan Society of Marketing and Distribution

Hiroshi KUMAKURA

Sangchul CHOICIRIEC Japanese Section (Japan Society of Researchand Information on Public and Cooperative Economy)

Japan Association for the Comparative Studies ofManagement

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Japan Society of Monetary Economics

Yoshio WATANABE

Kazuhiko YAGO

Japan Society of Political Economy

Mitsugu YONEDA

Hideto AKASHI

Naoki MURAKAMI

Renping HAONoriyuki KONISHI

Yasunori MATSUI

Koichi NAKAMURA

Shuichi SUZUKI

Keiichiro SUENAGA

Kazuyoshi OKU

Socio-Economic History Society

Shigehiko IOKU

Masato SHIZUMEThe Academic Association for Organizational Science

Kenshi YAMAKURA

Junjiro SHINTAKUThe Academy of Management Philosophy

Hiroshi OTSUKI

Hiroko NAGANO

The Accounting and Economic Association of Japan

Yasushi YOSHIDA

Hiroshi FUKUDA

The Agricultural Economics Society of Japan

Naoki SUGITA

Susumu FUKUDAThe Japan Accounting Association

Makoto NAKANO

Hidetsugu UMEHARA

Kazuhiro KUMO

Kazuho YOKOGAWAThe Japan Association for regional Economic Studies

Mitsuo YAMAKAWA

Mitsuyoshi KAWASEThe Japan Association of Economic Geographers

Koji KATOH

Shuichi NAKAGAWA

The Japan Institute of Public Finance

Makoto ONOJIMA

Satoshi SEKIGUCHI

Hidehiko KANEGAE

Hiroyuki SHIBUSAWA

The Japan Society for Social Science of Accounting

Kazuki UCHINO

Yoshiaki JINNAIThe Japan Society of Household Economics

Yoshihiro ASAI

Nobuyoshi YAMORIThe Japan Society of International Economics

Tomohiko INUI

Yasuyuki TODOThe Japan Society of Public Utility Economics

Akihiro NAKAMURA

Satoru HASHIMOTOThe Japan Society of Transportation Economics

Yosuke TACHIBANA

Hiromi KAMATA

The Japan Statistical Society

Hiroshi SAIGO

Shinya SAKANOThe Japanese Association of Administrative Science

Mitsutoshi HIRANO

Yasuo HOSHINOThe Japanese Association of Management Accounting

Masami MOTOHASHI

Masayuki TANIMORI

Masahiro KAWAMATA

Daisuke ARIE

Kazuyoshi HOTTA

Hiroshi SUZAKI

Japanese Association for Chinese Economy andManagement Studies
Japanese Association for International Accounting
StudiesNippon Academy of Management
Nippon Urban Management and Local Government
Research Association

The Japan Association for Comparative Economic
Studies

The Japan Section of the Regional Science Association
International

The Japanese Society for the History of Economic
Thought
The Japanese Society of Insurance Science

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The Political Economy and Economic History Society

Tetsuji OKAZAKI

Katsunobu KITAHARAThe Population Association of Japan

Kouhei WADA

Nobuko NAGASEThe Society for Industrial Studies, Japan

Akira YAMASAKIYUAN Zhijia

The Society for the History of Management Theories

Yasuharu TANZAWA

Takeshi MATSUDAThe Society for the Study of Social Policy

Kazue ENOKIAtsushi HYODOThe Society of Economic Sociology

Teruya ODA

Chikako MORI

Transcultural Management Society

Hideshi SAWAKI

Yoshinobu NAKAMURA

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Directors of the Union
Chairperson of the Board of Directors
Kenichi ENATSU (Japan Academy of International Business Studies)
Members of the Board of Directors
Junjiro SHINTAKU (Academic Association for Organizational Science)
Kazuhiko YAGO (Japan Society of Monetary Economics)
Kenshi YAMAKURA (Academic Association for Organizational Science)
Kohei KOMAMURA (Japan Economic Policy Association)
Mitsuhide SHIRAKI (Japan Society of Human Resource Management)
Shizuko KATO (Japan Scholarly Association for Asian Management)
Takahide KOSAKA (Japan Scholarly Association for Asian Management)
Tetsuji OKAZAKI (The Political Economy and Economic History Society)
Yoshiharu KUWANA (Japan Academy of International Business Studies)
Secretary General
Keiichi HASEGAWA (Japan Academy of Management)
Auditor

Makoto NAKANO (Japan Accounting Association)
Mamoru KOBAYASHI (Japan Academy for Asian Market Economies)

Emeritus

Mitsuhiko TSURUTA
Yasuhiro OGURA

English Information Bulletin No.40 Editorial Committee Members
Chairman

Yoshiharu KUWANA（Japan Academy of International Business Studies）

Members

Hideto AKASHI (Japan Society of Political Economy）
Hiroyuki NAGANO (The Japanese Society of Insurance Science)
Kazuhiko YAGO (Japan Society of Monetary Economics)
Kazuki UCHINO (The Japan Society for Social Science of Accounting)Keisuke SASAKI (The Japan Section of the Regional Science Association
International)
Midori KIZAKI (Japanese Association for Chinese Economy and Management
Studies)
Sairan HAYAMA (Japan Society for Business Ethics)
Shinichiro WATANABE (The Japanese Association of Administrative Science)
Takashi OGURI (Accounting History Association, Japan)
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Correspondence to be addressed:
Secretariat of the Union of National Economic Associations in Japan,
c/o International Business Institute Co., Ltd.
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Publisher: The Union of National Economic Associations in Japan
Date of issue: March 31, 2021
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