About the Presenters(In order of presentation)
Takahiro FUJIMOTO is a Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, and an Executive Director of the Manufacturing Management Research Center (21st Century COE Program). Professor Fujimoto graduated from the Department ofEconomics at the University of Tokyo in 1979 and received hisPh.D. from the Harvard Business School in 1989. He specializes
in business administration, technology management, product management, andsuppliers’ management.
He is an author of The Evolution of a Manufacturing System at Toyota (OxfordUniversity Press, 1999), Product Development Performance (Harvard Business
School Press, 1991, with Kim B. Clark). Professor Fujimoto is a recipient of the2001 Imperial Prize, the 2001 Japan Academy Award, and the Shingo Prizes for
Excellence in Manufacturing in 2000 and 2001, as well as many other awards.

Kenichi OHNO is a Professor of Economics at the National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, and a
Research Director of the Vietnam Development Forum (VDF),Hanoi. Professor Ohno graduated from Hitotsubashi University in1981 and received his Ph.D. from the Stanford University in
1987.
He is an author and editor of several books on international and development
economics, including Development Economics of East Asia (Yuhikaku, 1997,with Kojiro Sakurai, in Japanese), Dollar and Yen (MIT Press, 1997, withRonald I. McKinnon), Japanese Views on Economic Development (Routledge,1998, with Izumi Ohno), Globalization of Developing Countries (Toyo KeizaiShimposha, 2000, in Japanese; Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities / Osaragi Jiro Award for Critical Works in 2001), and The Economic Development of Japan: The Path Traveled by Japan as a Developing Country(GRIPS, 2006).

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Tomofumi AMANO is an Associate Professor at the Departmentof Business Administration, Hosei University, Tokyo, and a
researcher of the Manufacturing Management Research Center,Tokyo University. Professor Amano graduated from Hitotsubashi
University in 1996 and received his Ph.D. in Business Administration and Commerce from Hitorsubashi University in 2001. Hespecializes in Japanese firms’ strategy on foreign investment and internationalization in the East Asian region.
He is an author of Foreign Direct Investment and the Japanese Economy(American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, 2003, with Kyoji Fukao) and three
Japanese books which brought him several awards in Japan.

Keijiro OTSUKA is a Professorial Fellow at the Foundation for
Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID), and a
Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies(GRIPS), Tokyo. He graduated from Hokkaido University in1971 and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University ofChicago in 1979. He taught at Tokyo Metropolitan Universityfrom 1980 to 2001.
He is an Associate Editor of Economic Development and Cultural Change andthe co-author of seven books including Industrial Reform in China (ClarendonPress, 1998), and Land Tenure and Natural Resource Management (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
Professor Otsuka received the Quality of Research Discovery Award from theAmerican Agricultural Economics Association in 1992, the Nikkei Outstanding
Book Publication Award from the Japan Economic Journal in 1995 and 2004,
and the Best Journal Article Award from the Agricultural Economics Society ofJapan in 1999.

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Tetsushi SONOBE is a Professorial Fellow at the Foundation for
Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID), and aProfessor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies(GRIPS), Tokyo. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in
1984 and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale Universityin 1992. He taught at Tokyo Metropolitan University from 1992
to 2003.
He is a co-author of a several articles and books including “From Inferior toSuperior Products: An Inquiry into the Wenzhou Model of Industrial Development in China” (Journal of Comparative Economics, 2004), Roots and Strategies of Industrial Development: Lessons from the East Asian Experience(Chisen Shokan, 2004, in Japanese; Nikkei Outstanding Book Publication
Award in 2004), and Market and Economic Development (Toyo Keizai Shimposha, 2006, in Japanese).

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