Topics:
Business
October 20, 2009
Robert Herz, Chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and Ikuo Nishikawa, Chairman of the Accounting Standards Board of Japan, visited Japan Society to discuss the drive towards convergence in international accounting standards and the response of the standard setting community to the global financial crisis.
Topics:
Business
October 15, 2009
Christopher Flowers of private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co. visited Japan Society to talk about the state of the financial world and to discuss what we can learn from the past as we begin to recover from a global crisis of harrowing proportions.
Topics:
Policy
October 6, 2009
Hidehiko Nishiyama, Director-General for Trade Policy at METI and Senior Officials' Meeting Chair of the APEC 2010 forum, visited Japan Society to talk about some of the issues and challenges that members will address this year in Singapore, at the 2010 gatherings in Japan and in the years to come.
Topics:
Policy
October 1, 2009
Two distinguished specialists in trade policy shared their insights on international trade and export controls and the challenges facing businesses and governments in today's trade environment.
Topics:
Policy
September 29, 2009
A distinguished panel of environmental specialists met at Japan Society to reflect on how the U.S. and Japan can work together on climate change issues in the run-up to the December Copenhagen conference and beyond.
Topics:
Policy
June 23, 2009
His Excellency Yukio Takasu, Japan's Ambassador to the UN, spoke at Japan Society about the principles and process of Security Council reform.
Topics:
Business
June 9, 2009
Duncan Niederauer of NYSE Euronext spoke about the state of the global capital markets and the financial crisis.
Topics:
Business,
Policy
May 29, 2009
Jesper Koll of Tantallon Research shared his views on Japan's strengths in the context of the global economic crisis.
Topics:
Business
May 28, 2009
Tokyo Stock Exchange Group President and CEO Atsushi Saito presents his views on the causes of the recent financial crisis and the status of capital market competition since the crisis.
Topics:
Business
May 28, 2009
Atsushi Saito of the Tokyo Stock Exchange visited Japan Society to offer his thoughts on Japan's way forward in a time of global financial turmoil.
