Author Archives: Kazuyuki Matsumoto

Every year, at this time, Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall is dressed up to celebrate Japan Week. And, just as in other years, it was a splendid and colourful event. Though squeezed into one s... Read More

Assistant director Namiko Mukumoto and senior researcher Seth Benjamin attended a breakfast forum at the Manhattan Institute to hear a spirited discussion of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s push in t... Read More

Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, has retired after teaching there since 1968. To celebrate his long and distinguished career as one of the top experts on n... Read More

Akinari Horii, a former assistant governor of the Bank of Japan, gave a spirited and interesting “zadankai” lecture on the current state of ‘Abenomics’. Mr. Horii is a special advisor and a member of ... Read More

Staff of the Japan Local Government Center recently attended a Columbia University Business School "zadankai" lecture by Masahiro Ogawa and Mike Knapek, both corporate vice-presidents of Yaskawa Elect... Read More

The Physics of Success: Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Shuji Nakamura on Fostering Innovation Staff of the Japan Local Government Center in New York had another excellent opportunity to hear leading Japane... Read More

Recently, Ray Kelly, former police commissioner for New York City under Mayors Dinkins and Bloomberg, was interviewed by the Manhattan Institute about his new book that chronicles his time in New York... Read More

We would like to announce the selection result of the “~ JET Programme Alumni Satogaeri Project:  Return to your second home in Japan ~”. The participants for this project from North America are ... Read More

The physical devastation in the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan was immediately clear and overwhelming, even from a distance, and the ongoing work to rebuild cities on higher ground is a striking ... Read More

Recently, staff had the opportunity to hear a famed Japanese company executive talk about the changes that are occurring in Japanese management styles. This talk was timely, coming as it did after one... Read More