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Dr. Satu P. Limaye (
Moderator)
Director, East-West Center in Washington
Within the past six months, the United States and Japan have both elected new leaders and now must address questions of where the alliance stands and where it is headed. The East-West Center in Washington, in partnership with
Tokyo Review, held an in-depth discussion with authors from the latest
Asia Pacific Bulletin series to explore the possibilities for continuing and creating new pathways of cooperation between the United States and Japan under the Biden and Suga administrations.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Sean Connell is a senior fellow at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and a former visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Washington. Previously, he was director for Japan and Korea, and executive director of the US-Korea Business Council, at the United States Chamber of Commerce. He was a Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi Fellow based at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Ind
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Masayuki Morikawa
How will automation affect the future of employment? Policymakers, journalists, and academics alike are all attracted by this question due to the fear of the replacement of human jobs by machines. Taking up the industrial robots as an example, Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020) indeed draw a dismal picture that the penetration of industrial robots in the US depressed both employment and wages of workers of all educational backgrounds. To what degree can this experience be extrapolated to other regions and other times? In Adachi et al. (2020b), we address this question by looking at Japan’s long-term experience spanning four decades from 1978 to 2017.
The World s First Large-scale Epidemiological Study Combining Medical and Social Sciences
The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI; chairman: Dr. Makoto Yano), in collaboration with the Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University, began international collaborative research on general populace and healthcare professionals using an antibody testing kit developed by the Pasteur Institute in France. A joint press conference was held on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, prior to the start of the research.
The number of people testing positive for COVID-19 is on a conspicuous upward trend worldwide. In this situation, asymptomatic individuals (those with subclinical infection) who are able to continue to conduct economic activities hold an important key in understanding the route through which infection spreads. For this reason, RIETI, in collaboration with the Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University, have initiated international collaborative research on resi