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

The Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA and the Washington, DC, chapter of the JET Alumni Association partnered in hosting a special 5th anniversary commemoration of the March 11, 2011, disasters in Toh... Read More

Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor, the Financial Times Talks About The Silo Effect on Japanese Companies and Elsewhere Another stimulating discussion took place at Columbia University at the Busin... 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

CLAIR will be holding a video contest based on the theme “Japan’s local communities as experienced by JET Program participants”. The contest is primarily for current JETs, but former Program parti... Read More