Ne ws Bul l e tin of the Union of Nati onal
Ec onomi c Assoc i ati ons i n Japan
No.55 2019
Contents○

Introductory Comments
Yoshiharu KUWANA・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 1○

Obituary Remarks
Ken’ichi ENATSU・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 3○

On Publishing the 38th Issue of the English Information Bulletin
Masahiro KAWAMATA・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 5○International Conference Participation Report
Shigenori ISHIDA (The Japanese Society of Insurance Science) ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 8○

Reports on the Use of Assistance for the Invitation and Stay in Japan of Foreign Scholars
The Japan Statistical Society・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 11
Japan Logistics Society・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 13Japan Society of Political Economy・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 14
Japan Economic Policy Association・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 16○

Reports on the Use of Assistance for Academic Conference Expenses
The Political Economy and Economic History Society・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 17○

List of Member Association Trustees・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 20○

List of Union Directors・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 22○

List of English Information Bulletin No.38 Editorial Committee Members・・・・・・・・ 22

Introductory Comments

Moving Toward Taking Our Next Leap
Yoshiharu KUWANA
Secretary-GeneralI have taken on the very importantmember organizations, the various

responsibility of being appointed theSecretary-General of The Union of
National Economic Associations inJapan (hereinafter, The Union), to fill
the vacant position after the sudden
passing of Professor Masataka Ota lastSeptember. Having known him
personally for nearly 30 years throughour academic activities and joint

academic societies conducting researchin economics and related sciences.
Though we have performed diverse
activities so far, our routine activities
are 1) supporting our member societies(Offering supportive grants for sending
member researchers to overseas
academic conferences and study
meetings, Providing financial support

research,Ibelievethattherecommendation to serve as SecretaryGeneral in his stead was based on myexperience substituting for him during
the 1-year period of his research abroad.
Though I am not confident if I cancontribute as enormously to The Union
as he did, I intend to fulfill my job

for academic societies to invite scholars
from abroad, etc.), 2) publishing theInternational Bulletin, and 3) issuing theUnion Newsletter. Also in recent years,
we have worked on administrative
innovation and improvement toaccommodate the needs of high-level
information networking and other social

responsibilities as the SecretaryGeneral as much as possible within myhumble capacity.
As you are well aware of the facts,
The Union currently has approximately
43,000 members and exists as a unified
entity, currently consisting of 64

demands. Our activities include 1)
releasing the Union Mail Letter, 2)
digitalization of the International
Bulletin as well as uploading it on our
website, and 3) holding the Academic
Forum.
The Union will celebrate the 70th1

anniversary of its founding next year, intraining and other reasons. Both the2020, coinciding with the Olympic andParalympic
GamesinTokyo.
Anticipating that the world’s attention
will be focused on Tokyo, I believe that
The Union is expected to undergo atransformation so that it can take a greatleap, moving forward to the next stage
in the global perspective. Presently, theacademic societies and universities arebeing threatened by the waves of global
competition, requiring even further
merging and partnership with otherorganizations; at the same time, theirrespective “raison d’etre” is at stake.
Our mission at The Union is “topromote the advancement of member

Japanese academic societies andacademic institutions are going througha geophysical transformation. We arefacing a wide range of seriously
problematic issues, such as theinternationalizationofacademicsocieties, aging of its members,
decrease in membership, and difficultyof holding regular study group meetingssociety activities and to promote theiracademic exchange and cooperation, inJapan and overseas”. We anticipate thatthe reason for our existence and the role
played by The Union will continue toexpand in the future. As we start our
full-fledged planning and discussion of
the 70th anniversary memorial activities
and events, we need to concurrently

for many academic societies, andsimilarlyforuniversities,
theglobalization of education and of theuniversity, overwork for the faculty due
to institutional reorganization and lackof hours allotted to research, and thelowering of quality in research fromputting too much weight on practicalconsiderthepossibilities
fortransforming The Union toward ournext great leap. I sincerely hope toundertake my job as the SecretaryGeneral with the support andcooperation of our board directors andcouncil members.

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Obituary Remarks
Mourning the Untimely Passing of Masataka OTA,
Our Former Secretary General
Ken’ichi ENATSU
President
The

shock

and

sadnessI

age of 65 is all the more tragic.

experienced upon receiving the news of
my dear academic brother’s passing,early in the morning of September 28,
2018, was far more than any words
could express. The large empty space in
my heart and mind, from the immense
impact of the news of his loss, still
lingers with the memory of the moment
when the tears would not even flow

Since we have been involved in theactivities of The Union together overmany years, this was the worst andmost unexpected disaster for me. I was
deeply reminded how important andessential he was to The Union, as the
key person to our organization.
Nearly six months later, I haveregained my peace of mind to fondly

from my eyes.
It was the greatest tragedy in the 81
years of my life. I remember how his
sudden passing on the day before theAcademic Forum, that The Union was
to host on September 29, put everybody
involved in a state of panic. We owed
so much to his diligent work to finallyreminisce about my dear academic
brother, appreciating the cherry
blossoms in full bloom, and reflect on
more than 30 years’ time that we spentworking together.
In the past 30 years, we performed
together the concurrent tasks of being
the administrators and educators of thehold the forum; however, we wereunable to respond with due grief andmourning upon the unexpected passingof our academic brother.
In the current times when people
regard human lifespan as a period of
100 years, his untimely passing at thesame institution, and working on theestablishment and operation of theacademic society, planning and holdingbothdomestic
andoverseasinternational conferences, initiating
and implementing research projects,
practicing international academic
3exchange, and participating in various

social message for The Union that has

activities for collaboration with theindustrial sector. I will always
remember that he was literally my bestand strongest academic brother, who
understood, cooperated, and supported
me “walking the extra mile” tocomplete each of those activities.
One of his most visible

finally attained its steady course.
His untimely passing has struck an
irreparable blow to The Union, and I
am at a loss for words, as I most deeply
grieve his loss.
The diversity of the mourners who
attended the vigil, funeral, andmemorial meeting for his sake givecontributions was to be active in hisrole as the Secretary-General of The
Union. Over the last decade, myacademic brother proposed a diverse
range of new initiatives, as he paid due
respect for the tradition, to raise The
Union’s status to be an academicorganization that can accommodate andcontribute to modern society in theevidence to his immense achievements
as one of the best intercultural
management
research
professors
representing Japan.
I mourn from the depth of my heart
the loss of this remarkable comrade,fellow scholar, and human being.
I humbly extend my sympathy andcondolences for the incredible sorrowcurrent times of rapid transition andchange,anticipating
our70th
anniversary in 2020. Our Academic
Forum had been one such enterprisethat he first proposed and a very timely

and grief on the part of his family
members.
In prayer, I thank Masataka Ota foreverything. May he rest in peace; I will
never forget him.

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On the Publication of the 38th Issue, Information Bulletin of
The Union of National Economic Associations in Japan
Masahiro KAWAMATA (Keio University)
Chairman, Editorial Committee
We published the 38th Issue of theInformation Bulletin of The Union of
National Economic Associations in

Koichiro Tezuka, and Toshikazu
Takahashi were elected as the Editorial
Committee members for this issue.

Japan in December 2018. The bulletin
included articles from 11 academic
societies, namely, The Society for theHistory of Management Theories, TheJapan
SocietyofInternational
Economics, The Japan Society ofInternational Economics, The Japan
Association of Economic Geographers,
Japan
Business
Communication

Likewise, Seiichiro Ito, Yu Hasumi,
Satomu Ohara, Koji Kato, Munetsugu
Takeda, Kazuhiro Kumo, Yoshitaka
Ohira, Ichiro Iwasaki, Yukio Miyata,
Koichiro Tezuka, Toshikazu Takahashi
were elected as the Authoring
Committee members.
We held two Editorial Committee
meetings. In the 1st meeting, held on

Association, Japan Association for
Comparative Economic Studies, The
Academy of Management Philosophy,
Japan Association for the Comparative
Studies of Management, The Society
for Industrial Studies, Japan, Japan
Society of Logistics and Shipping
Economics,
andTranscultural

February 1, 2018, we elected the
Chairman, discussed our policies forediting the bulletin, considered theguidelines for article writing, andplanned the editing schedules. We
decided to perform the challenging
tasks by following the same editorial
policies and editing schedule as theManagement Society: TMS.
From the respective academic
societies mentioned above, Messrs.
Masahiro Kawamata, Yu Hasumi,
Satomu Ohara, Koji Kato, Seiji Nomura,
Kazuhiro Kumo, Yoshitaka Ohira,Hiroshi Tanaka, Katsuaki Sugiura,previous bulletin, the 37th Issue.
Thereupon, we agreed to add thefollowing note in the article writing
guidelines at the time of making
requests to the authors: “TheInternational Bulletin electronic version
has made it possible to include not only5

text data but also photographs, journalCollective Economy (CIRIEC Japan),covers, and logo images of the academic
societies and conferences. Please utilize
these functions. ”
At the 2nd Editorial Committee
Meeting on October 26, 2018, we
reviewed and confirmed the proofread
manuscripts of the articles to be
published. In this process, it was

The
Japanese
AssociationofManagement Accounting, The Japan
Society for Social Science of
Accounting, Japan Association for
Cultural Economics, and Japan
Association for Cultural Economics.
Since the 35th Issue, both theInternational Bulletin and Newsletter ofreported and approved that The Japan
Society for Social Science of
Accounting will decline authoring anarticle to be included in the 2019
International Bulletin due to certain
reasons, and that they will author anarticle in the following issue (39th Issue).
We also confirmed the schedule for theeditorial work, including the final

The Union of National Economic
Associations in Japan have been
published in the form of electronic data.
We have stopped providing these paperbased versions and have disclosed their
PDF data (the 1st Issue through 38th
Issue) on The Union homepage and JSTAGE. In this way, we maintain arecord of the International Bulletin,

proofreading, leading to the publicationin December 2018. In addition, we
discussed the schedule to publish thenext International Bulletin (39th Issue)
in December 2019 and determined the
12 authoring societies for the issue,
namely, Japan Academy of Business
Administration, JEPA (Japan Economic

from its 1st Issue published in 1980 tothe current 38th Issue, to fulfill its
mission “to be published worldwide”.
As for the issues raised in the
Editorial Committee meeting for theprevious issue (37th Issue) of theInternational Bulletin, we have
responded as follows: we reported to the

Policy Association), The Japan Societyof Transportation Economics, Japan
Statistical Society, The Agricultural
Economics Society of Japan, Japan
Society of Marketing and Distribution,
Japan Association for Management
Systems, International Society of

Editorial Committee and Board of
Councilors on the number of internet
accesses to the International Bulletin
and about other information on ourhome page and J-STAGE; we included
the list of annual conferences held by
our member academic societies on The
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Union homepage.

support in publishing this issue of the

Finally, I would like to express mygratitude to the respective Editorial
Committee and Authoring Committee
members, Mr. Paul Snowden (Professor
and Director of Center for International
Exchange, Kyorin University) who was
responsible for proofreading theEnglish manuscript, the Secretary-

International Bulletin.
I regret to mention that our
Secretary-General, Masataka Ota,
passed away suddenly in September
2018, prior to the 2nd Editorial
Committee Meeting. We express our
deep appreciation for his diligent
support in publishing the former issues

General Masataka Ota, the President
and Deputy Secretary-General Ken’ichi
Enatsu, and Yoshiko Ishii in charge of
the English version, for their dedicatedof the International Bulletin; at the sametime, we pray that his soul will rest inpeace.

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International Conference Participation Report

Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association 22nd Annual Conference
Participation Report
Shigenori ISHIDA (Kansai University)
The Japanese Society of Insurance Science
With a recommendation from The

focusing on “the risks and insurance”.

Japanese Society of Insurance Scienceand financial assistance from The Unionof National Economic Associations inJapan, I participated in and presented on
my research at the 22nd APRIA (AsiaPacific Risk and Insurance Association)
Annual Conference that took place
between July 29 and August 1, 2018, in
Singapore. The conference sponsors

The APRIA members conduct academic
research and specialize in extensive
fields, such as economics, commerce /business administration, mathematics,
statistics, mathematical science of
insurance and financial engineering.
Their annual convention is held
every year during mid- July throughearly August. In principle, thewereNanyang
Technological
University and their business school,
the Insurance Risk & Financial
Research Center. I will report about theconference in general, based on my own
activities there.
APRIA was established in 1997 as
an international academic society ofrespective universities in the AsiaPacific region become host institutions
and take charge of all the preparatory
and operational matters for the
conference. Ever since the 1st
convention was held at our hostinstitution
this
year,
Nanyang
Technological University, in 1997,

researchers and business persons from awide range of fields encompassing theindustry, government, and academia in
the Asia-pacific region, including the

APRIA has met annually all over Asia,
in Hong Kong, Australia, India,
Thailand, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan,
and Singapore. Last year, theuniversities,
research
institutes,
government (regulatory agencies),
insurance companies, and others,

conference was held at Poznań
University of Economics, Poland.
This year, it was held in Singapore for8the third time.

Let me also note thatsuch as the occurrence of a large-scale

more than a few APRIA conference
participants come from countries in
America and Europe, such as USA,
Canada, UK, Germany, Poland, andSwitzerland. Evidently, these activities
represent the sharing of crucial issues
betweentheresearchersandpractitioners in Europe and America tonatural disaster in the same region
affecting the world economy.

consider the risks and the risk
management responding to the rapidly
increasing economic importance of the
Asia-Pacific region and the various
risks that accompany such progress,

year, and 111 individual research
reports were presented. 5 symposiums
were held in addition to the individual
research presentations. Their respective
topics were as follows:

Approximately 200 participants (ofuniversities and research institutes,
corporations, government agencies),
mainly from Asia and worldwide,
attended the Annual Conference this

1. Regulation, the 4th Industrial Revolution and Asian’s Insurance Development
2. How Can We Achieve Closer Industry-Academic Collaboration?
3. Quantification of Risk Rating Systems
4. Lessons Learned from Ponzi Schemes
5. Behavioral Insurance
Many participants gathered to
conduct active, productive discussions
on these topics not only contributing todeeper insights into insurance and therisk theory but also presenting the issues

conference seemed to represent thisprinciple.
Concurrently, individual researchers
made their own research presentations.
The program consisted of not only

to be tackled through global
collaboration with the industry,
government, and academia. The
fundamental principles of APRIA
include collaboration with the industrial,
government, and academic sectors.
Each of these activities at therelated fields of study (catastrophe,environmental issues, pension andmedicine, the insurance market andregulation, financial insurance and its
administration, etc.) but also otherresearchdisciplines(economics,
statistics, theory of finance, etc.),9

arranged

comprehensively

withparticipants, and these insights willattention to the respective features ofeach specialization. I found this to beinterdisciplinary
andextremely
academic.
I made my presentation in Session
1-D (Catastrophe), starting from 14:25
on July 30. The title was “Ideal
Community Networks for Vulnerable

contribute to the advancement of myresearch. Further, I could expand thescope of my ongoing research byreading through the academic papers
pertaining to my appointment to leadthe panel discussion.
It has already been decided that the23rd APRIA Annual Conference will beGroups during a Disaster”. By
appointment, I also participated in thespecific
panel
discussionon“Catastrophe Insurance, Government as
Reinsurers and Insurers’ Risk-Taking
Investment” presented by Professor
Hanyang Wang of Peking University
and his research group. In mypresentation, I was able to gain a lot ofheld at Konkuk University in Korea.
This APRIA convention being a global
and diverse conference with focus on
the Asia-Pacific region, we expect that
it will continue to grow and expand.
Finally, I sincerely appreciate thesupport I received from The Union of
National Economic Associations inJapan, in the form of financial

valuable insights from the comments
received from the panelists and thequestions posed by the panel discussion

assistance, to make possible thisvaluable opportunity.

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Report on the Use of Assistance for
the Invitation and Stay in Japan of Foreign Scholars Ⅰ

Hiroshi SAIGO (Waseda University)
The Japan Statistical Society
I should like to report that theinternational sessions (cf. below
indication) of the Japan StatisticalSociety were held according to thefinancial assistance provided by The
Union
of
National
Economic
Associations in Japan, as part of its 2ndcall for applicants in 2018. Thank youplannedvery much for the funding support.

1.

schedule,

thankstotheName of the international session⚫

2018 CSA-KSS-JSS Joint International Sessions➢ Details: They are hosted alternatingly by the academic societies on statistics inthree countries, namely, the Chinese Statistical Association (Taiwan), theKorean Statistical Society, and the Japan Statistical Society. This year, thesessions were hosted by the Japanese society. Normally, when Japan is the host,the international sessions are held as a special feature session for the Japanese
Joint Statistical Meeting that is held annually from early to mid-September.
We followed this style to include the international sessions in three of thesessions at the joint meeting.
2.

3.

Conference Date / Time / Location:⚫

1) 10:00-12:00, 2) 13:00-15:00, 3) 15:30-17:30, Wednesday, September 12, 2018⚫

Korakuen Campus, Chuo University

Programs⚫

Organizer: Yasuhiro Omori (University of Tokyo)⚫

1) Machine Learning➢

Chair: Woncheol Jang (Seoul National University)➢

1 Easily parallelizable and distributable class of algorithms for structured sparsity, with
optimal acceleration, Joong-Ho Won (Seoul National University)➢

2 Causal inference and mechanism investigation under time-varying system, Sheng-Hsuan
Lin (National Chiao Tung University)11➢

3 Generalization error analysis of deep learning: avoiding curse of dimensionality andpractical application, Taiji Suzuki (University of Tokyo)⚫

(2) Bayesian Analysis➢

Chair: Ray-Bing Chen (National Cheng Kung University)➢

1 Nonparametric Bayesian multivariate meta-regression with functional meta-predictor: anapplication in environmental epidemiology, Yeongseung Chung (Korea Advanced Instituteof Science and Technology)➢

2 Bayesian Markov Switching Integer-valued GARCH Models for Dengue Counts, Cathy
W. S. Chen (Feng Chia University)➢

3 On-line analysis of count-valued time series by dynamic discount factors, Kaoru Irie
(University of Tokyo), Christopher Glynn (University of New Hampshire), Tevfik Aktekin(University of New Hampshire)⚫

(3) High Dimensional Analysis➢

Chair: Yasuhiro Omori (University of Tokyo)➢

1 Structured Volatility Matrix Estimation for Non-synchronized High-frequency Financial
Data, Donggyu Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)➢

2 Spectral statistics of large dimensional Spearman’s rank correlation matrix and its
application, Lin Liang-Chin (National Cheng Kung University), Zigang Bao (Nanyang
Technological University)，Guangming Pan (Nanyang Technological University)，Wang
Zhou (National University of Singapore)➢

3 Robust and sparse Gaussian graphical modelling under cell-wise contamination, Shota
Katayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Hironori Fujisawa (The Institute of Statistical
Mathematics)，Mathias Drton (University of Washington)⚫

Please refer to the following website for further details, including a collection of thepresentations.

➢

http://jfssa.jp/taikai/2018/table/program_detail/0912.html

4.

Other
⚫

In response to the KSS Chairperson’s intention to participate in the Joint Statistical
Meeting, the Chairman of the Japan Statistical Society invited the Chairpersons of the
2 societies to attend.

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Report on the Use of Assistance for the Invitation andStay in Japan of Foreign Scholars Ⅱ

Tomoyoshi OGAWA (Meiji University)
Japan Logistics Society
Chairman, Organizing Committee for the 35th Annual ConferenceFirst, we would like to express our
deep appreciation for the financial
support provided by The Union of
National Economic Associations inJapan for the invitation of a scholarfrom overseas and his stay in Japan, on
the occasion of 35th Annual Conferenceof Japan Logistics Society. The
conference was held as scheduled, from
September 29 through 30, 2018, on the
Surugadai Campus of Meiji University.

the supply chain in India, issues forconsideration, and future prospects.
Specifically, he gave a detailed
explanation about the maintenance ofAs the visiting foreign scholar, we
invited Anshuman Neil Basu, Executive
Director, SCM Programs, Private
Limited, and Secretary General of the
AssociationofSupplyChain
Professionals (India), who spoke as the
1st Speaker in the Invitation Lecture,from 13:30 to 14:30, on September 29,

the main port facilities in India and thepromotion policies of the industries
behind them (CEZ), as indicated in
Vision2020, business opportunities andsupply-chain strategies in the age ofdigital logistics, possibilities ofproviding food products from India to
the world, and reducing food loss as

2018. His lecture title was “The Status
Quo of Supply Chain in India – theIssues to be Addressed and Looking to
the Future”. Please let me report on thepresentation.
First, he explained the historicalaspects of Japan-India relations; then,he explained about the current status ofwell as the eliminating the waste of foodresources. In addition, he reported onhigher education in the field of supply
chain
and
human
resourcesdevelopment for the working adults ingraduate schools. Through these reports,
it was shown that raising the skills of thepersonnel supporting the supply chain
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was the issue at hand. Further, he

presentation session on the following

mentioned the things India should learn
from comparing with the supply-chain
logistics overseas, and vice versa, as
other countries learn from India that has
plenty of human resources. His idea wasto start an innovative movement of
supply chain in India. Finally, he spoke
about enhancing the relationshipday, engaging in intimate discussions
with the Japanese and Chinese
researchers and business persons. On
the whole, the Annual Conference thisyear became an extremely worthwhileoccasion due to the lecture given by ascholar from abroad.
The assistance funding we received

between India and Japan and promoting
the Japanese investment in India, fromthe perspective of the potentials of
Indian growth.
Mr. Basu also attended the postlecture party and the researchfrom The Union was used to cover theinvited scholar’s international airfare
and part of his accommodation fees inJapan.

Report on the Use of Assistance for the Invitation andStay in Japan of Foreign Scholars Ⅲ

Having Invited Professor Saskia SASSEN
Tetsuji KAWAMURA (Hosei University)
Japan Society of Political Economy
In the afternoon of October 13, 2018,
on the first day of the 66th Annual

Book Prize in 2017. At the ceremony,
Chairman and President Tetsuji

Conference of the Japan Society of
Political Economy, we invited Professor
Saskia Sassen (Columbia University,USA) to hold the awarding ceremony

Kawamura recited the award conferraland commemorative lecture at the
Biwako-Kusatsu Campus, Ritsumeikan
University. Prof. Sassen is the winner ofthe 4th JSPE Routledge International
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Economy”, elaborated on the contents

details, handed the award plaque, andcongratulated the professor, after whichof the award-winning book, discussing
through various case studies thedevelopment of exploitative activities
that accelerated the rapid focus of
wealth, a great feature of the new worldin the post-1980s in capitalistic
economy, causing a diverse dynamics of
expulsion such as extreme inequality,

she gave the commemorative lecture.
The lecture, titled “Expulsions:
Brutality and Complexity in the Global

unemployment,poverty,suicide,pursuit, refugee generation, andimprisonment.

Works Authored by the Japan Society of Political Economy for the Routledge
International Award
1. Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, Princeton
University Press, 2006. (Japanese translated version:『領土・権威・諸権利グローバリゼーション・スタディーズの現在』. Akashi Shoten, 2011)
2. Expulsions Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy, The Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. (Japanese translated version: 『グローバル資本主義と〈放逐〉の論理――不可視化されゆく人々と空間』. Akashi Shoten, 2017）15

Report on the Use of Assistance for the Invitation andStay in Japan of Foreign Scholars Ⅳ

Inviting Professor James MORLEY
Tatsuma WADA (Keio University)
Japan Economic Policy Association
We invited Professor James Morley(The University of Sydney), having
received financial assistance from The
Union
of
National
Economic
Associations in Japan, for his visit toJapan from Australia. He gave a guest
lecture for us in the Plenary Session of
the 17th International Conference of theJapan Economic Policy Association,

Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) of
Keio University. During his visit thistime, Prof. Morley also madepresentations of his research at theInstitute for Monetary and Economic
Studies (Bank of Japan), Keio
University, Hokkaido University, andHitotsubashi University. His lecture at
the International Conference of theheld on October 27 and 28 at theJapan Economic Policy Association wasdeliveredunder
thetheme,
Macroeconomic Fluctuations
andStable Growth Policy, in Plenary
Session 2. The content of this lecture
will be published as an academic paperin our academic journal, theInternational Journal of Economic
Policy Studies.
Professor Morley is famousworldwide in empirical macro research.
When we look at fluctuations in theeconomy as a global phenomenon, therestraining of economic expansion in
the post-World War II period created a16that it is easy to apply the model of anasymmetric growth and recession in theeconomy. Further, Professor Morleyindicated that through his research, themodel-average method based on theBayesian method, determining the
average of the powerful measuringmethods among many different
methods, is more effective for economic
cycle measurement, compared to the
traditional models including the linear
and non-linear.
The 100,000 yen provided by The
Union
of
National
Economic
Associations in Japan, in the form offinancial support, was given toProfessor Morley to express our thanks
for his lecture.

large recession of the economy. As
represented in Milton Friedman’splucking model, the lecture pointed out(Photo: Prof. Morley speaking to the audience at SFC)

Report on the Use of Assistance for Academic Conferencing

Report on the Symposium, Spring Meeting 2018
Akinobu NUMAJIRI (Rikkyo University)
The Political Economy and Economic History Society
On June 23, 2018, the Political
Economy & Economic History Society
held a symposium on the theme,
Property Rights and Economic
Activities, in the spring term integrative

research meeting at our Spring Meeting
held at the Graduate School of
Economics, Faculty of Economics, of
The University of Tokyo. Generally
speaking, we can surmise that the17national protection of property rights

and industrial development”. Also, weguarantees the ownership and use ofproperty as due privileges, and thisassures the activity of economic
incentives. The issue for the symposium
was to consider what kind of influence
the establishment of property rights, andhow the relationship between the publicauthority establishing property rights

planned to have non-member specialists
in law and economics, from theirrespective perspectives, to give the 4presentations on economic history.
We attempted to connect the discussions
on economic history, real law, anddevelopmental economics by having Mr.
Wataru Tanaka (The University ofand other “private” order, had on theactual economic activities and social
welfare.
This symposium consisted of 4
presentations, each representing the real
rights, obligatory rights, intellectual
property rights, and employee rights
among the property rights in modernday Japan. Our academic society

Tokyo), specializing in commercial law
and corporate law, and Mr. Yutaka
Arimoto (Hitotsubashi University)
specializingindevelopmental
economics, to share their commentswith us.
On the day of the symposium, many
productive discussions were made as wewere stimulated by these non-member

members presented on the real,obligatory, and employee rights(Kuniaki Saito on “The specificqualities of Japanese land ownershiprights and institutional change”, Noburu
Kobayashi on “Obligatory rights
certification and economic activities by
the Meiji State in Japan”, Takenobu

specialists’ presentations and comments.
A wider discussion on property rights
was made possible with the added
content of Mr. Nishimura’s presentationon
intellectual
propertyrights.
Moreover, the comments by the invitedspecialists in law and economics madepossible the various ways to understandYuki on “Bankruptcy and employee
rights organization in the financial
depression in the Showa era”). As forthe intellectual property rights, we
asked Shigehiro Nishimura of Kansai
University, a non-member but a
specialist in this topic, to give his
presentation on “The patent trial system

the issues according to the relationshipof our field with different kinds of law,outside of my own research area. We
also discovered the features of therespective case studies as we considered
the relationship between property rights
security and economic activity, using
the incentive theory as the medium.
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Further, we could learn from the many

turned out to be extremely meaningful

points that were revealed, such as theraison d’etre and limitations of theseanalytical methods.
One of the objectives of this
symposium was to build a base forpossible dialog and discussion between
the researchers of economic history,
legal studies, and economics, in theirin the sense that we could discuss theactual possibility of interdisciplinary
exchange of the discussion points
through comments by the professionalsof law and economics. Last but not theleast in my appreciation for yoursupport, I thank The Union of National
Economic Associations in Japan for therespective research areas. The meeting

financial assistance provided.

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Member Association Trustees
2019.3.31
Japan Society of Monetary Economics

Yoshio WATANABEThe Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought

Masahiro KAWAMATA

Daisuke ARIEThe Japan Society of Public Utility Economics

Akihiro NAKAMURA

Satoru HASHIMOTO

Socio-Economic History Society

Shigehiko IOKU

Masato SHIZUMEThe Political Economy and Economic History Society

Tetsuji OKAZAKI

Yasuo KAWAIThe Japan Accounting Association

Koji ISHIUCHI

Hidetsugu UMEHARA

Japan Academy of Business Administration

Koji OHIRA

Fumitaka IWANAMI

Japan Economic Policy Association

Yujiro OIWA

Hiroyuki KAWANOBEThe Japan Society of Transportation Economics

Katsumi KOJIMA

Yoshinori TAKAHASHIThe Japan Institute of Public Finance

Motohiro SATO

Satoshi SEKIGUCHIThe Japan Statistical Society

Hiroshi SAIGO

Shinya SAKANOThe Agricultural Economics Society of Japan

Hitoshi KUSAKARI

Hisako SEKINE

The Japan Society of International Economics

Tomohiko INUI

Yasuyuki TODO

Japan Society for Commodity Science

Shuji OHIRA

Shin OSERAThe Society for the Study of Social Policy

Toru KUMAZAWA

Atsushi HYODOThe Japanese Society of Insurance Science

Kazuyoshi HOTTA

Hiroshi SUZAKI

Japan Society of Marketing and Distribution

Junji NISHIMURA

Hiroshi HORIKOSHI

The Japan Association of Economic Geographers

Koji KATOH

Shuichi NAKAGAWA

Japan Association for Asian Studies

Tomoo MARUKAWA

Kazushi SHIMIZU

Japan Society of Political Economy

Mitsuhiko TSURUTA

Yousin SUGAHARA

Japan Business Communication Association

Yoichi SATO

Takashi MASUYAMAJapan Society of Business Mathematics

Katsushige SAWAKI

Isao USUIBusiness History Society of Japan

Shin HASEGAWA

Nobuhisa FUJITAJapan Academy for International Trade and BusinessToshihiko SINOHARA

The Japan Section of the Regional Science Association International
Hidehiko KANEGAE

Hiroyuki SHIBUSAWA

The Society for the Economic Studies of Securities

Hiroshi FUKUMITSU

Hajime TAKAHASHIThe Population Association of Japan

Kouhei WADA

Natsumi ARATAME

The Japan Association for Comparative Economic Studies

Fumikazu SUGIURA

Yasushi NAKAMURA

The Academic Association for Organizational Science

Kenshi YAMAKURA

Junjiro SHINTAKUJapan Society of Human Resource Management

Mitsuhide SHIRAKIAtsushi YASHIROThe Society of Economic Sociology

Shin WATANABE

Chikako MORI

Japan Finance Association

Kotaro INOUE

Hitoshi TAKEHARA

Japan Academy for Consumption Economy

Takehiko YASUDA

Yasuyuki SASAKI

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Japanese Association for International Accounting Studies

Japan Society for Applied Management

Noriyuki KONISHI

Yasunori MATSUI

Yuji SHIMADA

Toshimasa MITSUMORI

Nippon Urban Management and Local Government Research Association
Keiichiro SUENAGA

Kazuyoshi OKU

Japan Port Economics Association

Hideki YOSHIOKA

Toshio ONDA

Nippon Academy of Management

Yasuhiro OGURA

Shigeo KATO

The Academy of Management Philosophy

Hiroshi OTSUKI

Hiroko NAGANO

Japan Risk Management Society

Kazuo UEDA

Katsuyuki KAMEIJapan Logistics Society

Mitsumasa NAKA

Eiichiro IWAO

Yuri KIMURA

Ichiro IWASAKI

Japan Academy of Management

Saburo OTA

Keiichi HASEGAWAThe Society for Industrial Studies, Japan

Akira YAMASAKIYUAN Zhijia

Japan Association for Management Systems

Shogo SHIODE

Hiroshi YAMASHITA

Japan Association for the Comparative Studies of Management

CIRIEC Japanese Section (Japan Society of Research and Information on Public and Cooperative Economy)
Teizo ANAYAMA

Kazuyoshi UENO

The Japan Society for Social Science of Accounting

Kazuki UCHINO

Yoshiaki JINNAIJapan Society of Logistics and Shipping Economics

Koichiro TEZUKA

Katsuhiko HAYASHIThe Japanese Association of Management Accounting

Masami MOTOHASHI

Akimichi AOKIThe Society for the History of Management Theories

Yasuharu TANZAWA

Takeshi MATSUDA

Japan Scholarly Association for Asian Management

Takahide KOSAKA

Shizuko KATO

Japan Academy of International Business Studies

Kenichi ENATSU

Yoshiharu KUWANA

Japan Society for Business Ethics Study

Junichi MIZUO

Hironori KAWAGUCHIJapan Association for Evolutionary Economics

Takeshi IKEDA

Hiroyasu UEMURA

Japan Academy of Labor and Management

Hiroyuki KUNISHIMA

Kota SHIMAUCHIThe Japanese Association of Administrative Science

Yasuaki KIDO

Yasuo HOSHINO

Business Analysis Association

Michimasa SATO

Hisashi MORI

Japan Academy for Asian Market Economics

Nobuyoshi NISHIZAWA

Junichi MURAMATSU

The Japan Society of Household Economics

Junko SHIGEKAWA

Kenichiro MIYAMURA

Japan Association for Cultural Economics

Kazuko GOTO

Japanese Association for Chinese Economy and Management Studies
Fumio MAKINO

Renping HAOAcademy of Multinational Enterprises

Yoshihiro OISHI

Hiroo TAKAHASHITranscultural Management Society

Hideshi SAWAKI

Yoshinobu NAKAMURA

Accounting History Association, Japan

Hiroaki TAKEBE

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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
Fumihiko HIRUMA (Japan Society of Monetary Economics)
Tetsuji OKAZAKI (The Political Economy and Economic History Society)
Koji ISHIUCHI (Japan Accounting Association)
Junjiro SHINTAKU (Academic Association for Organizational Science)
Mitsuhiko TSURUTA (Japan Society of Political Economy)
Motohiro SATO（Japan Institute of Public Finance）
Yasuhiro OGURA (Nippon Academy of Management)
Takahide KOSAKA (Japan Scholarly Association for Asian Management)
Shizuko KATO (Japan Scholarly Association for Asian Management)
Secretary General
Yoshiharu KUWANA (Japan Academy of International Business Studies)
Auditor

Saburo OTA (Japan Academy of Management)
Hideki YOSHIOKA (The Japan Port Economics Association)

Emeritus

Osamu NISHIZAWA
Toshio KIKUCHI

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Masahiro KAWAMATA (The Japanese Society for the History of Economic

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Thought)
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Koji KATOH (The Japan Association of Economic Geographers)
Seiji NOMURA (Japan Business Communication Association)
Kazuhiro KUMO (Japan Association for Comparative Economic Studies)
Yoshitaka OHIRA (The Academy of Management Philosophy)
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Katsuaki SUGIURA (The Society for Industrial studies, Japan)
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