Which cooperation
between Japan and France inthe new post-Covid-19 environment?
Inaugural meeting of the Cercle de la FFJ
Bringing together former visiting researchers, associate researchers, prize winners and close collaborators, theCercle de la FFJ aims, on the one hand, to better promote the scientific excellence of its members as well as the richand atypical collaborations that it has been able to set up with them; and, on the other hand, to encourage interactions
between its members, particularly with a view to the professional integration of future and young researchers.

Friday 13 November 2020 | 15:00-18:30
Toyo University, 5 Chome-28-20 Hakusan, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 112-0001
Room 1203 (Second floor of the 1st building in Hakusan Campus)
Attendance by invitation only (on site or by videoconference)
In English
The health crisis has changed the way we work, especially in the case of activities based on international
cooperation, whether in academia or business. The Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, whose objective is to promoteexchanges and collaboration between Japan and Europe, wishes to mobilize the members of the Cercle and its partners
to take stock of the unique experience of confinement, under more or less strict conditions depending on national andlocal contexts, while reflecting on the next world, from the point of view of international cooperation. The paradox isindeed that we have been forced to change the terms of our exchanges, which has led to significant instability in the
networks of both companies and researchers, even though we were in a context that in fact requires the highest level ofcooperation. This change in exchanges has highlighted the importance of developing intense international exchanges, while
highlighting the weaknesses of these collaborations when their weakening at the time of a crisis calls into question
the notions of industrial dependencies, national sovereignty and the capacity for collaboration. Far from challenging
globalization, this crisis above all allows us to better understand it.

Program
15:00 | Introduction
Opening speech: Shinji Fukukawa (Chancellor at Toyo University) and Hajime Imamura (Professor/Department
Chair at Toyo University)
Speeches: Jean-Christophe Auffray (Counsellor for Science and Technology, Embassy of France in Japan) and
Shiro Okita (Financial Advisor, Embassy of Japan in France)
Introduction: Bernard Delmas (Director of Nissan Motors and Senior Advisor to Michelin Group, President of Le
Cercle de la FFJ), Yuko Harayama (Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University, President of Le Cercle de la FFJ) andSébastien Lechevalier (Professor at EHESS, President of FFJ)

15:30 | Round Table 1: Feedbacks and lessons from the healthcrisis

While the main global consequence for the economy has been the imposition of an unprecedented physical distance,
the purpose of this roundtable will be to assess and understand the influence of this phenomenon on society. How haveresearchers and companies adapted to this new context, particularly with regard to international cooperation? Whatassessment can be made of the technological tools used? Did the telework experience have any positive dimensions?
Beyond technology, have new ways of working emerged? What was the impact of the cancellation of the colloquia andall the “face-to-face” meetings? Will physical distancing change public, commercial, production and private spaces?
Chair
Bernard Delmas (Director of Nissan Motors and Senior Advisor to Michelin Group, President of Le Cercle de la FFJ)
Speakers
Takeo Hoshi (Professor at the Graduate School’s Division of Economics of The University of Tokyo)
Jean-Yves Iatrides (Air Liquide R&D Asia Vice President)
Hiroyuki Okamuro (Professor at the Graduate School of Economics of Hitotsubashi University)
Koji Saeki (Senior Vice-President of the Japan Society and Technology Agency)

16:30 | Coffee Break
17:00 | Round Table 2: How to think and put into practiceinternational cooperation in the next world?

This second round table aims to explore possible orientations to adapt to the constraints resulting fromthis crisis. What are the possible scenarios? What is going to change in the world in terms of international
cooperation in the long term? How can we restart our exchanges? On what grounds? Should we invest in
new tools? How can we make up for the possible decline in informal and spontaneous meetings? How can we
continue to innovate in this new constrained context? How can we rethink the organization of work and its articulation
with family and private life? On what basis will human resources management in the wake of this crisis be based?
Chair
Yuko Harayama (Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University, President of Le Cercle de la FFJ)
Speakers
Misako Aida (Executive Advisor to the President, Professor (Special Appointment), Hiroshima University)
Masayo Fujimoto (Professor of the Faculty of Social Studies Department of Sociology at Doshisha University)
Akinari Horii (Special Adviser and Member of the Board of Directors at The Canon Institute for Global studies)
Philippe de Taxis du Poët (Managing director for EU-side at EU-Japan Center for Industrial Cooperation)

18:00 | Keynote speech

Yoichiro Matsumoto (President of Tokyo University of Science)Chairs and Speakers
Misako Aida (Executive Advisor to the President, Professor(Special Appointment), Hiroshima University)
The research field of Misako AIDA is quantum chemistry. She received a PhD degree in Sciencein 1986. She became the first female professor at Hiroshima University’s Graduate School of
Science in 1998.
Since 2007, she has been in charge of gender equality promotion, human resource development
and university reform at Hiroshima University. Currently, she is the Executive Advisor to the
President of Hiroshima University, focusing on researcher development.
In addition to education and research in fundamental science, she has conducted several
programs regarding gender equality promotion and also developing next generation researchers.
She has managed 8 programs (4 related to the career advancement of women researchers and4 related to the fostering of young researchers) at Hiroshima University, with support from the
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. She currently serves as the executive
manager of a consortium, “World-Class Researcher Development Through Regional Collaboration” (hereafter referred
to as HIRAKU-Global). The HIRAKU-Global Consortium aims to develop world-class researchers through a powerfulcollaboration of the universities demonstrating their own unique strengths in the Chugoku and Shikoku regions.

Jean-Christophe Auffray (Counsellor for Science andTechnology, Embassy of France in Japan)
Jean-Christophe Auffray, 61, holds a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University ofMontpellier(France). Hired as a researcher at the CNRS in 1990, hebecomes in 2007 directorof the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of the University ofMontpellier which he heads until
2013 (230 staff members).Meanwhile, from 2006 to 2010, he chairs the Scientific Council of theInstitute for Ecology and Environment (INEE) of the CNRS and, in 2010-2011, he is appointed
Representative for Biodiversity at the French Ministry of Higher Educationand Research.
He also has a Diplomatic career. Appointed Scientific Advisor at the Embassy of France inIsraelfrom 2003 to 2005, Counsellor for Science and Technology in Canada from 2013 to 2017,
he has started his appointment as Counsellor for Science and Technology in Japan in June 2017.
Author and co-author of more than 90 articles in the fields of evolutionary biologyand biodiversity,
he has taught Evolutionary Biology, Statistics and Morphometrics at the University of Montpellier, at the National Museumof NaturalHistory, Paris and the University of Monastir Tunisia.

Bernard Delmas (Independent outside director of Nissan Motors
and Senior Advisor to Michelin Group, President of Le Cercle dela FFJ)

Bernard Delmas is currently Independent outside director of Nissan Motors, Senior Advisor toMichelin Group, Honorary President of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japanand French Foreign Trade Advisor in Japan. After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieuredes Mines (1977) and HEC (1979), he joined the Michelin Group where he held a number of
positions in Asia. From 2007 to 2016, he is CEO of Nihon Michelin Tire and Michelin Korea Tire.

Masayo Fujimoto (Professor of the Faculty of Social Studies
Department of Sociology at Doshisha University)
Prof. Masayo Fujimoto have been studying on the behavior of Scientists and Engineers with theirorganizations over 25 years. She started her research at graduate school in Sociology, after 10
years of experience as a system engineer for mechanical control system. Soon after she received
her Ph.D. (Sociology), she joined to a research institute (RIETI) of the Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry where she started a research about Government owned R&D institute while
its transition to an Independent administrative agency. She is currently a professor at theGraduate School of Sociology of Doshisha University, where she experienced a visiting professor
at Stanford University in 2007, a visiting professor at the FFJ of EHESS in 2013, a visiting
scholar at the FFJ of EHESS in 2015~2016, and is currently a visiting scholar at CNRS-LEST.
Doshisha University and EHESS have an academic exchange agreement, and the Doshisha
University Research Center for Work Environment and Science /Technology, where Prof. Fujimoto is the director, hasan academic exchange agreement with CEREQ in southern France. She is currently conducting organizational researchin science and technology industrial clusters and a comparative study of the educational support system for young
researchers (graduate students and PD) among Japan, France and the US. She Organized SASE (Society for the
Advancement of Socio-Economics)2018 , the first meeting at Asia in Japan as executive director. Some of her books
were honored for the academic awards.

Shinji Fukukawa (Chancellor at Toyo University)

Shinji Fukukawa is Chancellor at Toyo University Incorporated Educational Institution, Former
Vice-Minister of MITI (Former METI), Senior advisor at the Global Industrial and Social Progress
Research Institute (GISPRI) and Chairman at Japan Industrial Partners, Inc. He is also memberof the EU-Japan Business Round Table, Senior Advisor of the Committee for Japan-China
Economic Information Exchange and Vice President of the Toshiba International Foundation. His
publications includes “Nijyu-isseiki Nippon no Sentaku” (Japan’s Direction in the 21st Century),“Bi-Kan-Yu-So” (Beautiful, Sensuous, Enjoyable, Creative) - The way to the Plus Sum Society,“Industrial Policy”, “The Thinking of Successful Businessmen in the IT age”, “A Warning to Japan”
and “First Think, Then Act – Japanability Changing the World”.

Yuko Harayama (Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University,
President of Le Cercle de la FFJ)

Dr. Yuko Harayama is Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University and Executive Director of RIKEN.
She is also the former Executive Member of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation,
Cabinet Office of Japan. She is the former Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science,
Technology and Innovation, OECD. She is a Legion D’Honneur recipient (Chevalier), and wasawarded honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel. Previously, she was Professor in
the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Graduate School of Engineeringof Tohoku University. She holds a Ph.D. in educa-tion sciences and a Ph.D. in economics, bothfrom the University of Geneva.

Akinari Horii (Special Adviser and Member of the Board of
Directors at The Canon Institute for Global studies)

Akinari Horii is Special Advisor and a member of the Board of Directors of the Canon Institute for
Global Studies, a research think tank in Tokyo, Japan. He also sits on the Audit & Supervisory
Board of Tokio Marine Holdings. In addition, Akinari advises a few internationally active business
firms.He is a member of several non-profit entities, e.g., Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of
Corporate Executives); Advisory Council of Japan International Coopertion Agency; Investment
Committee at Kindai University; the Trilateral Commission; the United States-Japan Foundation’s
Board of Trustees, where he is Vice Chairman.
Akinari Horii was a central banker until he stepped down as Assistant Governor of the Bank ofJapan in June 2010. During the four years’ term of office, Mr. Horii was responsible for the Bank’s
all international activities and represented the Bank at G7Deputies, G20Deputies, FSB, and other key committees ofinternational organizations. In Asia, he was Chairman of EMEAP Working Group on Financial Markets as well as BIS/
EMEAP Forex Forum.
Before the governmental appointment to assistant governorship, Mr. Horii had worked at the Bank for three decades.
Outside the Bank of Japan, he also worked at the BIS in Basel, Switzerland and Japan’s Ministry of Finance.
Mr. Horii received his MBA with distinction, and as a Beta Gamma Sigma, from the Wharton School at the University ofPennsylvania and his BA in Economics from the University of Tokyo.

Takeo Hoshi (Professor at the Graduate School’s Division of
Economics of The University of Tokyo)
Takeo Hoshi is Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. His main research interest
includes corporate finance, banking, monetary policy and the Japanese economy. Hoshi is also
Co-Chairman of the Academic Board of the Center for Industrial Development and Environmental
Governance (Tsinghua University) and Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance andEconomic Research (ABFER). His past academic positions include Henri and Tomoye Takahashi
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University
and Pacific Economic Cooperation Professor in International Economic Relations at Universityof California, San Diego (UCSD). In addition to academic appointments, Hoshi served as Directorof Union Bancal (2009-2014), Chair of the Board of Tokyo Foundation (2016-2018), and Director

of the Japan Investment Corporation (2018). He received 2015 Japanese Bankers Academic Research Promotion
Foundation Award, 2011 Reischauer International Education Award of Japan Society of San Diego and Tijuana, 2006
Enjoji Jiro Memorial Prize of Nihon Keizai Shimbun-sha, and 2005 Japan Economic Association-Nakahara Prize. His
book titled Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future (MIT Press, 2001) co-authored with
Anil Kashyap (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago) received the Nikkei Award for the Best Economics
Books in 2002. He co-authored The Japanese Economy (MIT Press, 2020) with Takatoshi Ito. A book on the political
economy of the Abe administration that he edited with Phillip Lipscy will be published from Cambridge University Pressin early 2021. Other publications include “Potential for Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Japan” (Joint with Kozo
Kiyota), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2019; “Will the U.S. and Europe Avoid a Lost Decade?
Lessons from Japan’s Post Crisis Experience” (Joint with Anil K Kashyap), IMF Economic Review, 2015; and “Zombie
Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan” (Joint with Ricardo Caballero and Anil Kashyap), American Economic
Review, December 2008. Hoshi received his B.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Tokyo in 1983, and a Ph.D.
in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988.

Jean-Yves Iatrides (Air Liquide R&D Asia Vice President)
I am since last year Vice President Corporate Research and Development Asia.
Jean-Yves IATRIDES is currently in charge of the Research and Development activity of AIR
LIQUIDE group for Asia. He has been holding, within the AIR LIQUIDE group that he joinedin 1987 as researcher after graduation from the french engineering school “Arts et Metiers”,
various positions from business to industrial operations in France, US and China. Through thedevelopment and promotion of industrial gases applications, he has been active in several
industrial sectors ranging from glass to semiconductor manufacturing up to the use of hydrogenfor mobility. Before coming back to Asia, in 2019, he was in charge of one of the largest industrial
operations in France.

Hajime Imamura (Professor/Department Chair at Toyo
University)
Professor Hajime IMAMURA is the Chair of the Department of Global Innovation Studies(GINOS)
of the Faculty of Global and Regional Studies (GRS) at Toyo University, and also the Deputy
Director of the Center for Global Innovation Studies (GIC). As a representative of these two
Toyo University flagship projects, Hajime has successfully planned and implemented several
new projects making full use of its capabilities and network. In addition, he is responsible forthe planning of the new project GINOS will launch in the field of “Global Entrepreneurship” at its
Graduate school in 2020. This will involve teaching subjects and project based studies to complete
the “GINOS Open Innovation Ecosystem” made up of three startup projects of undergraduate,
graduate and think tanks. Hajime is also
in the core of an international academic network for social innovation, as he was a praesidium
member of CIRIEC International (Belgium Liège) until 2020, and a Core Member of the Scientific Committee of the Mont
Blanc Meeting (Paris, France). Taking his main research fields as Global Social and Business Entrepreneurship, Social
Enterprise, Social and Solidarity Economy, he has written many papers, given conference presentations and invitedlecturesall over the world. His latest publication is “Possibilities and Challenges of NPOs / Social Enterprises in Promotion ofSocial Impact Bonds”, in Ichiro Tsukamoto, Ikuyo Kaneko eds. “What is Social Impact Bond - Possibility of Social
Innovation through Finance” published by Minerva Shobo. Hajime is also contributing outside academia as he hasserved as a governmental committee chairman for the Labor division of the evaluation committee for Incorporated
Administrative Agency of Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan since 2011.

Sébastien Lechevalier (Professor at EHESS, President of FFJ)
Sébastien Lechevalier is an Economist and a Professor at EHESS (School of Advanced Studies
in the Social Sciences, Paris), specialised in Japanese economy and Asian Capitalisms. He
is also founder and president of the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS (FFJ). He has been
A Visiting Professor At Tokyo University, Kyoto University, Hitotsubashi University, Waseda
University and Doshisha University.
Trained as a labor economist, he has extensively published on various dimensions of theJapanese economy, in comparative perspective, including: The Great Transformation of Japanese
Capitalism (Routledge, 2014; published in Japanese from Iwanami Shoten as ) was publishedin three languages (in Japanese as「日本資本主義の大転換」), “Lessons from the Japaneseexperience. Towards an alternative economic policy?”, ENS Editions 2016), “Abenomics: has
it worked? Will it ultimately fail?” (Japan Forum, 2017), “Firm-Level Labor Demand for andMacroeconomic Increases in Non-Regular Workers in Japan” (Japan & The World Economy, 2018).
Other research interests include innovation (Innovation beyond technology, Springer, 2019), industrial policies

(“Financialization and industrial policies in Japan and Korea: Evolving complementarities and loss of state capabilities”
in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2019, Vol. 48), and inequalities & redistribution (“Decomposing Preference
for Redistribution. Beyond the Trans-Atlantic Perspective”, forthcoming).

Yoichiro Matsumoto (President of Tokyo University of Science)
Dr. MATSUMOTO was born in 1949. He received his Doctoral degree from the University ofTokyo in Mechanical Engineering in 1977. He became Lecturer of the same University in 1977,
Associate Professor in 1978 and full professor in 1992. He served as Dean of School ofEngineering from 2006 to 2008, and served as Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2015. He
is now Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo. From 2015 to 2018, he was Executive
Director of RIKEN. He was appointed as President of Tokyo University of Science in April, 2018.
On April 1, 2020, Dr. MATSUMOTO assumed the post of the Science and Technology Advisor to
the Minister for Foreign Affairs. He is working on promoting Science and Technology Diplomacy.

Hiroyuki Okamuro (Professor at the Graduate School of
Economics of Hitotsubashi University)
Hiroyuki Okamuro is Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
and a consulting fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). He
received his M.A. from Hitotsubashi University and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University ofBonn. His major research interests are entrepreneurship and innovation. He has publishednumerous papers in international journals on these topics. He has served as an associate editor
at the Journal of Small Business Management since 2013.

Shiro Okita (Financial Advisor, Embassy of Japan in France)
Shiro Okita is Financial Counsellor at the Japanese Embassy in France.
He has been long working at the Japan’s Ministry of Finance especially in the field of social
security budget. Just before his arrival to France, he was Secretary to the Deputy Prime Ministerand the Minister of Finance in Japan. He holds a Bachelor degree in Law from Tokyo University
and a Master degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University.

Koji Saeki (Senior Vice-President of the Japan Society andTechnology Agency)

Koji Saeki has been Senior Vice President of JST since July 2019. He graduated from Univ. ofTokyo (Faculty of Engineering) and joined current Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science& Technology (MEXT) of Japan in1985. His previous assignment was Assistant Minister/Director
General of Research and Development Bureau of MEXT, and he has experiences in the planning,
coordination and implementation of science and technology policy including space development,
nuclear energy, life sciences and bio-ethics.

Philippe de Taxis du Poët (Managing director for EU-side at EUJapan Center for Industrial Cooperation)
Philippe de Taxis du Poët has education background in biological engineering and PhD in thebiotechnology sector.
Before joining the European Commission in 1992, he worked 10 years in industry as Head of
R&D projects in Japan (electronics), Canada (pulp and paper) and Italy (pharmaceutical).
At the European Commission, he has been mainly involved in the innovation and industry sector,
financial instruments for research and development in cooperation with the European Investment
Bank, EU economic diplomacy and the internationalisation of European businesses.
On the side of the European External Action Service, he was posted 4 years in Tokyo at theDelegation of the EU to Japan (2005-2009) and 4 years in New Delhi at the Delegation of the EU
to India (2009-2013) as Head of Research and Innovation Section.
Since April 2018, he is the Managing Director (EU-side) of the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, and Minister
Counsellor at the Delegation of the EU to Japan.