Second meeting of the Cercle de la FFJ
17 November 2021
Embassy of France in Tokyo

4-11-44 Minami-Azabu, Minato-Ku, Tokyo (Japan)
13.10 - 17.30 (Japan time)

Online13.30 - 17.30 (Japan time) | 5.30 - 9.30 (France time)

Contact: cercle_ffj@ehess.fr
Bringing together former visiting researchers, associate researchers, prize winners andclose collaborators, the Cercle de la FFJ aims, on the one hand, to better promote thescientific excellence of its members as well as the rich and atypical collaborations thatFFJ 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 andyoung researchers.
Chaired by Mrs Yuko Harayama (Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University) and Mr Bernard
Delmas (Director of Nissan Motors), the Cercle de la FFJ gathers its members once a year inTokyo and publishes twice a year a newsletter to highlight their news. The Cercle publishedon FFJ website its Members List detailing their profile and their research projects. Furtherinformation about the Cercle on the FFJ website.

Programme(All the times indicated are in Japan time)

13.10 | Welcoming at the Embassy of France in Tokyo
13.30 | Opening Remarks
Sandrine Maximilien
Scientific attaché at the French Embassy in Japan
Sébastien LechevalierPresident of the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, Professor at EHESS
Yuko Harayama
Co-President of the Cercle de la FFJ, Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University
Bernard Delmas
Co-President of the Cercle de la FFJ, Director of Nissan Motor

Session 1 | Artificial intelligence and the future of work
14.00 - 15.00
Digital transformation is underway, with an increasing use of AI in the economy and oureveryday life, affecting the organization and nature of work as a consequence. Beside theexpectations of job creation and fears of job destruction, the deployment of AI is impacting
the reality, sometimes with unexpected effects, but we are just at the beginning of a more
profound social transformation. What we observe today is that AI is affecting different groupsof workers through different paths, the way we organize our work, and even the scope of work.
In fact, the capacity of humans is tested, competed and challenged by AI at the workplace,
raising the question of competitive advantage of human vis-à-vis AI, since, focused on theroutine tasks by the past, the substitution effect of AI is expanding its scope to the manualtasks and even more to the cognitive tasks. What will be the future of work? In this panel, wewill bring different perspectives on this question, quite simple but of substantial significancefor our future.

Chair
Sébastien LechevalierPresident of the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, Professor at EHESS

Speakers
Yann Ferguson
Senior Research Scholar at Icam Toulouse
Yuko Harayama
Co-President of the Cercle de la FFJ, Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University
Isamu Yamamoto
Professor of labor economics at Keio University
Kazuo Yano
Fellow at Hitachi Ltd., CEO of Happiness Planet LtdBreakSession 2 | Presentations by members of Cercle de la FFJ
15.30 - 17.00
The purpose of this roundtable is twofold. First, it will be an occasion to remind us of some
important steps of the activities and research programs of FFJ during the last decade.
Second, it will give the opportunity to the members of the Cercle, in a bottom-up approach,to inform us about their current research activities in order to share some insights and,eventually, to promote some collaboration among them.

Chair
Bernard Delmas
Co-President of the Cercle de la FFJ, Director of Nissan Motor

Presentations
Introduction: A brief history of FFJ
Bernard Delmas
Co-President of the Cercle de la FFJ, Director of Nissan Motor

Presentation of Air Liquide Laboratories and their activities
Kazutoshi Iida
Managing Director of Innovation Campus Tokyo at Air Liquide Laboratories

Care-led Innovation: The case of elderly care in France and Japan
Sébastien LechevalierPresident of the Fondation France-Japon, Professor at EHESS

Understanding the "judicialization" of social and environmental issuesin
Japan and France
Adrienne Sala
Researcher at Institut français de recherche sur le Japon, Maison franco-japonaise

East Asian and European Firms: Comrades or Competitors
Willem Thorbecke
Senior Fellow at RIETI, 2020 Fellow of FFJ/Banque de France

Individual- and Group-Productivity in an Online Environment: the Case ofJapan
Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov
Post-doctoral researcher, Kochi University of Technology, Winner 2018 of FFJ/SASE Prize of the best article on Asia

Discussion

Keynote speech
17:00 - 17:30 (Japan time)
Norbert LeuretPresident and Representative Director of LVMH MOËT HENNESSY-LOUIS VUITTON
JAPAN KK

Opening Remarks and Chair(alphabetic order)

Bernard Delmas (Nissan Motors, Independent directorand Co-President of the Cercle de la FFJ)
Bernard Delmas is currently Independent outside director of Nissan Motors, Honorary
President of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan and 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 anumber of positions in Asia. He is former President & CEO of Nihon Michelin Tire Co.

Yuko Harayama (Tohoku University, Professor Emeritus
and Co-President of the Cercle de la FFJ)
Dr. Yuko Harayama is Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University and Executive Directorof 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 isa Legion D’Honneur recipient (Chevalier), and was awarded honorary doctorate
from the University of Neuchâtel. Previously, she was Professor in the Departmentof Management Science and Technology at the Graduate School of Engineering ofTohoku University. She holds a Ph.D. in educa-tion sciences and a Ph.D. in economics,
both from the University of Geneva.

Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS, Professor and Presidentof the Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS)
Sébastien Lechevalier is an economist and a professor at the School of Advanced
Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris (EHESS). He is specialised in Japanese economyand Asian capitalisms. He is also the founder and president of the Fondation FranceJapon de l’EHESS (FFJ). He has been a visiting professor at various universities inJapan, including Tokyo University, Kyoto University, Hitotsubashi University, Waseda
University and Doshisha University.

Sandrine Maximilien (French Embassy in Japan, Scientificattaché)
Sandrine Maximilien is Attaché for Science and Technology at the French Embassyin Japan since September 2018. She previously held the same position in India,
in Mumbai, between 2014 and 2018. She also stayed in Vietnam from 2005 to2010, where she was in charge of the implementation of a training program forengineers within the framework of cooperation between the Vietnamese and Frenchgovernments. Engineer in civil engineering and town planning, she hold a Ph.D. inmaterials science. Previously she was associated Professor at National Institute ofApplied Sciences (INSA) in Lyon, where she was also deputy director for international
affairs.

Speakers(alphabetic order)

Yann Ferguson (Icam Toulouse, University Toulouse
Jean Jaures, Senior research scholar)
Yann Ferguson is a sociologist and Senior Research Scholar at Icam Toulouse andResearch Center on Work Organizations and Policies (University Toulouse JeanJaures). His main interests focus on the relationships between Humans and tools theycreate to face situations: tools of government, aid decision tools, aid with task
resolution at the workstation. In this respect, his current work studies the sociotechnical processes of integrating the application of artificial intelligence at work. In
particular, he is piloting the development of a global catalog of real use cases within
the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, a multilateral initiative that brings
together nearly 25 countries. The aim is to highlight good practices to promote theadvent of "responsible AI", i.e. combining efficiency gains and worker empowerment.

Kazutoshi Iida (Air Liquide Laboratories, InnovationCampus Tokyo, Managing Director)
Kazutoshi is managing R&D team in Japan, Korea and Taiwan , and also responsible
for building a strong connection with local innovation ecosystem including publicresearch institutes, universities, customers, suppliers and start-ups in Japan, Koreaand Taiwan. He joined Air Liquide in 2011 and has been taking current roles sincethen. He holds Master degree in Polymer Chemistry from Kyushu University in Japanand worked at Japanese, American and German chemical companies before joining
Air Liquide. He received a title of visiting professor from Kyushu University since 2016.

Norbert Leuret (LVMH Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton
Japan K.K., President and Representative Director)
Norbert Leuret is the President and Representative Director of LVMH Moët Hennessy
Louis Vuitton Japan K.K.. LVMH is the worldwide luxury sector leader, owing a uniqueportfolio of 75 brands, covering sectors such as Wines & Spirits, Fashion & LeatherGoods, Watches & Jewelry, Perfumes & Cosmetics, Selective Retailing and otheractivities. Having graduated from l’Ecole de Management de Lyon (EM Lyon) inInternational Business in 1983, Norbert Leuret started his career in French Embassyin Japan, at the Osaka General Consulate, and then joined Royal Dutch Shell Groupin France, Belgium and Japan. In 1997, he debuted a post in KENZO Japan (LVMHGroup) as President.After managing KENZO in Japan, he jointed Hachette Filipacchii
Medias Japan( Lagardère Group) as President in 2003, to run their acquisition renamed Hachette Fujingaho.
Norbert Leuret then spent 10 years leading the expansion of ZARA Japan (INDITEX Group) as President andChief Executive Officer between 2006 and 2016. He returned to LVMH in Spring 2016.

Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov (Kōchi University of Technology,School of Economics and Management, Post-doctoralresearcher)
Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov obtained his Ph.D. in International and Advanced JapaneseStudies from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) in 2018. In his dissertation, he explored
how the pursuit of the shareholder-value ideology by management has affected labor
policies at large Japanese enterprises. In 2018 he won the Best Paper Award fromFoundation France-Japon/SASE. In 2021 he became an Associate Researcher atFFJ, cluster “Asian Capitalisms: Diversity and Institutional Change”. His current
research project funded by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists focuses on
the market perception of corporate innovations in Japan. He also employs experimental methods to elucidate
various aspects of corporate organization and behavior.

Adrienne Sala (IFRJ-MFJ, Researcher)
Adrienne Sala is researcher at the French Institute of Research on Japan at theMaison Franco-Japonaise (IFRJ-MFJ) and visiting researcher at the University ofTokyo, Institute of Social Science since September 2019. After a PhD thesis at EHESS,
she is currently working on sociopolitical issues related to legal mobilization, publicpolicy and law making process, as well as evolution of the Japanese economy andsociety. Since January 2021 she is coordinating the project «Judicialization » of socialand environmental issues in France and Japan » including webinar series organizedin collaboration with the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS. Among her recentpublications: « La créativité du juge à l’épreuve des nouveaux problèmes de santé autravail : l’exemple du cas japonais du karôshi et karôjisatsu », Revue de Droit Comparédu Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale, 2021/2; « Puissance et défis économiques du Japon », in Guibourg
Delamotte (dir.), Le Japon dans le monde, éditions du CNRS, 2019. She also contributed to the forthcomingcollective book « Socio-Life Science and the Covid-19 outbreak » at Springer ed.

Willem Thorbecke (RIETI, Senior Fellow, 2020 FFJ/Banquede France Fellow)
Willem Thorbecke is a Senior Fellow at Japan’s Research Institute of Economy, Tradeand Industry. Prior to this he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Development
Bank Institute and a professor at George Mason University. He was the FFJ/Banquede France Fellow in 2020-2021 and a Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International
Development from 2017 to 2020. He is also an honorary professor at the InternationalBusiness School Suzhou, Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University in Suzhou China. His
work investigates the impact of COVID-19, monetary policy, fiscal policy, oil pricechanges, and other shocks on the economies of Asia, Europe, and the U.S. He has
also studied the development of global value chains and the impact of exchange rates
on trade within production networks.

Isamu Yamamoto (Keio University, Professor)
Isamu Yamamoto is Professor of labor economics at Keio University. He is also Directorof the Panel Data Research Center at Keio University, where he is responsible forseveral household panel surveys representing Japan such as the Japan Household
Panel Survey (JHPS). He has been studying various aspects of the work style ofJapanese workers, focusing on long work hours, work-life balance, workers’ mental
health, and others. His research is also concerned with the future of work. Heserves as Principal Investigator of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)research project, “Research on the task models to cooperate with the human and newtechnology,” and conducts related studies. As an author and editor, he published abook “Artificial Intelligence and the Economy” (in Japanese) in 2019.

Kazuo Yano (Hitachi Ltd., Fellow and Happiness PlanetLtd., CEO)Dr. Kazuo Yano is Fellow, Hitachi Ltd. and CEO, Happiness Planet Ltd. He is known
for his pioneering works dedicated to the world-first room- temperature single-electron
memories. Subsequently, he has pioneered the measurement and analysis of social
big data. He and his coworkers have succeeded in quantifying the happiness ofpeople from unconscious physical motion, and founded “Happiness Planet, Ltd.” in2020 for enhancing happiness and psychological capital through technologies. He
has provided a number of keynote speeches on data for happiness world-widely.
Kazuo has applied for over 350 patents and his papers have over 4500 citations. His
book, The Invisible Hand of Data, was nominated as one of the top-10 business books in Japan in 2014. Hereceived 2020 IEEE Frederik Phillips Award and many other international awards. He is Fellow of the IEEE.