Towards stronger and deeper relations
between Japan and the EU
24-25 June, 2013
Paris

Preliminary Conference Program
June 24: Bringing together Business leaders, Officials and Scholars

VenueOECD, Auditorium, 2, rue André Pascal - 75016 Paris

8:30

Welcome remarks
HEM Ichiro Komatsu, Ambassador of Japan to France
HEM Motohide Yoshikawa, Ambassador of Japan to the OECD
Minna Liira, Deputy Permanent Representative, EU Delegation tothe OECD
Marie Söderberg, Director, European Institute of JapaneseStudies
Sebastien Lechevalier, President, Fondation France Japon del’EHESS1

I. Session (9:00)
Setting the scene: macro/micro and global contexts
Chair: Christian Sautter, Former French Minister of Finance
9:00

Moreno Bertoldi, Head of the Unit “Countries of the G-20, IMF, GGroups”, European Commission
Forty Years of EU-Japan Relations – Were They Driven by Tradeand Exchange Rate Concerns?
Daisuke Kotegawa, Senior Fellow, Canon Institute for Global
Studies
Japan's way out. The world financial crisis from Japaneseperspective
Fukunari Kimura, Professor, Keio University
The East Asian Economic Dynamism and International Rule
Making: Why Is the EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
Needed?
General discussion

10:30Coffee BreakII. Session (11:00)
Understanding the political process of negotiation
Chair: Sébastien Miroudot, Senior Trade Policy Analyst, Trade and Agriculture
Directorate, OECD
HEM Motohide Yoshikawa, Ambassador of Japan to the OECD
The role of bilateral and regional Economic Partnership
Agreements in the Japanese trade policy
Masaya Fujiwara, Minister, Japanese Embassy in France
Japan's strategy toward the Japan-EU EPA
HEM Hye-min Lee, Korean Ambassador to France
Learning from the Korean experience
Patrick Messerlin, Professor Emeritus, Sciences Po
Negotiating ‘mega-FTAs’: a new exercise

2General discussion
12:30Lunch

III. Session (14:00)
The viewpoint of business
Chair: Sebastien Lechevalier, Associate Professor, EHESS
Michel Gardel, Vice-President, Toyota Motor Europe
The automotive industry & the EU-Japan FTA/EPA. The way
forward
Carsten Dannöhl, Senior Adviser, Business Europe
Ambition and comprehensiveness: Making the FTA a success
Takahiro Tomonaga, General Manager, Strategic Information
and Research Department, Mitsui & Co. Benelux
EPA/EIA between the European Union and Japan – Expectationfrom business viewpoint
Michel Theoval, Senior Vice Chairman, European BusinessCouncil in Japan
Europe-Japan: a meaningful convergence. The long march toeconomic integration
Masahiko Yoshii, Professor, Kobe university (EU Institute in Japan,Kansai)
The EU-Japan economic partnership: a view from Central andEastern Europe
General discussion
15:30

Coffee BreakIV. Session (16:00)
Beyond trade and FDI:
the non-economic dimensions of EU-Japan collaboration

Chair: Marie Söderberg, Director, European Institute of Japanese Studies
Michito Tsuruoka, Visiting Fellow, Royal United Services Institute
A Case for Stronger Political and Security Relations between
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Europe and Japan
Nicola Casarini, Research fellow, EU Institute of Security Studies
The European pivot to Asia and the place of Japan
Shiro Komatsu, Assistant Professor, Waseda University
EU-Japan Security Cooperation In Progress: The Japanese SelfDefense Forces and the EU’s Common Foreign and Security
PolicyAxel Berkofsky, Professor, University of Pavia
The EU-Japan political agreement-added value or more of thesame?
17:30

End of Conference and reception organized by the Japanese
Delegation to the OECD, Room Roger Ockrent in the OECD
Chateau4

25 June: Academic workshop day
Venue

EHESS, 105 Bd Raspail 75006 Paris, amphithéâtre François Furet

8:50

Introduction & Welcome
I. Session (9:00)
Japanese Politics: anything new?

Chair: Marie Söderberg, Director, European Institute of Japanese Studies,
Stockholm School of Economics
9:00

Paul Midford, Professor, Department of Sociology and PoliticalScience, Norwegian University for Science and Technology(NTNU)
Foreign Policy as an Issue in the 2012 Lower House Election
Felix Spremberg, Ph.D student, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
MunichSocial Democratic Actors in the DPJ
Patricia A. Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, European Institute ofJapanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics
Interest group, Governance Structure and Lobbying
Discussant: Guibourg Delamotte, Associate Professor, INALCO

10:30

Coffee BreakII. Session (11:00)
A first assessment of Abenomics

Chair: Etienne Rolland-Piègue, Senior Economist, French Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
11:00

Sébastien Lechevalier, Associate Professor, EHESS
Abenomics: A critical assessment
Matthieu Bussière, Head of International Macroeconomics
Division, Banque de France
Shigeto Nagai, General Manager for Europe, Bank of Japan
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BOJ's Monetary Policy: A new approach to escape from a
deflationary equilibrium
Carin Holroyd, Associate Professor, Department of PoliticalStudies, University of Saskatchewan
Reshaping the Japanese economy

12:30

LunchIII. Session (13:30)
Foreign policy and ODA
Chair: Axel Berkofsky, University of Pavia
13:30

Marie Söderberg, Director, European Institute of JapaneseStudies, Stockholm School of Economics
Myanmar – the last frontier for Japanese ODA to Southeast Asia
Annette Skovsted Hansen, Associate Professor, History and AsianStudies, Institute for Culture and Society, Aarhus Universitet
Impact of historical networks on ODA distribution in Africa
Pekka Korhonen, Professor, University of Jyväskylä
China in Japanese Rhetoric
Aki Tonami, Researcher, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (coauthored with Andreas Østhagen, The Arctic Institute, North
Norway European Office)A ‘non-Arctic’ policy? A comparison between the EU and JapanDiscussant: Yumiko Yamamoto, Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Sciences Po - CERI

15:00

Coffee BreakIV. Session (15 :00)
Special session on EU funding for research cooperation with Japan
Chair: Sebastien Lechevalier, EHESS

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Antoine Mercier, International Affairs Officer (Japan), French
Ministry of Higher Education and Research
Caroline Chu, Head of European Affairs and Partnerships, EHESS
Patricia A. Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, European Institute ofJapanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics

V. Session (16 :30)
Conclusions of EJARN 2013
Chair: Marie Söderberg, Director, European Institute of Japanese Studies,Stockholm School of Economics
17:00End of Conference

The conference is sponsored by Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, Toshiba
International Foundation, EUIJ-Kansai, Banque de France, EHESS andEuropean Institute for Japanese Studies
For registration, please contact Kae AMO ffj@ehess.fr7

The European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN)
European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN) is a network of leading
European Japan scholars conducting policy relevant work and research onJapanese politics, economics and security, and Europe-Japan relations. The
establishment of EJARN underscores the goal to strengthen the EU-Japan
relationship and to provide the means for Europe and Japan to learn more about
and from each other. This objective has become increasingly important with therise of China as an economic power. The changing power relations in East Asia has
led many Asian studies institutes in Europe to become de facto China studies
institutes, thus we are facing a situation in which Japan is fading away from theEuropean agenda. In an effort to rectify this situation, in 2008, Marie Söderberg,
Director, European Institute of Japanese Studies, spearheaded the European
Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN), a new Europe-wide network of highlevel scholars of Japan.
For more information on EJARN, its mission and members please see:www.hhs.se/EIJS/EJARN/Pages/EJARN.aspx
The European Institute of Japanese Studies"Our mission is to create opportunities for mutual learning between Japan andEurope"
The mission of the European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) is to serve as amajor centre for research on the economies and societies of Japan and East Asia,with particular emphasis on issues that impact Europe. Established in Stockholm in
September 1992 through an endowment of funds from Swedish and Japanesebusinesses and the Swedish government, EIJS operates independently ofeconomic and political interest groups as an autonomous research centre within
the Stockholm School of Economics.
For more detailed information, please see: www.hhs.se/EIJS/Pages/default.aspx
Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS (EHESS Paris日仏財団)
The Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS aims to facilitate and promote intellectual
exchanges between Japan and France. The EHESS is a national institution forhigher education in social sciences located in Paris, with world-class researchersand educators. The foundation’s main activities include:- Inviting Japanese researchers and other Japan experts to educational andresearch institutions that are in partnership with the foundation- Promoting collaboration between academic communities in Japan and France- Organizing events such as conferences, debates, and seminars- Publishing and translating books, journals, and articles- Supporting research in all areas of humanities and social science
Together with our partners—public and private, in Japan and in France—we seek
to contribute to the development of collaborative research in these two countries.
For more detailed information, please see: http://ffj.ehess.fr/8