“A New Trading Nation Strategy, JAPAN”(Bunshun Shinsho, 2018)

Keiichiro Oizumi(Professor of History, ECNU

I am very honored to receive the special prize of the honorable Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award. This book aimed to describe the Asian economies in point of view from Japanese companies. This is because many books on Asian economies so far does not include Japan and there are many one-way debates that Japan’s companies activities is an impact on the Asian economy, the reverse is less. The period when Japan was the only leader in Asia, was a long time ago, and as Asian emerging countries emerged, the position of new Japan was required to be clarify. 　Therefore, instead of “Asia and Japan”, focusing on “Japan in Asia” as a keyword, I tried to consider how the global supply chain changed Japan and Asia and how Japanese companies should behave in that context. 　It was devised to be able to evaluate in the future what it was and could not overcome as well as an analysis of the current situation. However. this is a small book with such ambitions, it took five years from planning to completion. However, I thought that it was a culmination of the experience and knowledge gained in my research in the Japan Research Institute, which I worked for about 30 years, and that it became a kind of “Asia economic review in the Heisei era”. It is truly incredible that it was selected as one of the special awards of the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award, which honors a book that contributes to the development of the Pacific Rim Solidarity Initiative. 　From April of this year, I moved to Institute of Asian Studies in Asia University to continue my research. The feelings are already heading toward the “Asian economic review in the Reiwa era”. Perhaps the key word is “digitalization” and “Asia in Japan”. I would like to ask for your continued guidance and support. Thank you very much.

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Kyoto Prefecture University, Bachelor of Agriculture, 1996 Kyoto University, Master of Agriculture, 1998 Kyoto University, Ph. D. of Area Studies, 2012 Chief Literary Works Ageing Asia, 2007, Chuokoron-Shinsha, Award- winning publication in 2008 for the Promotion of Studies on Developing Countries of Institute of Developing Economies Consuming Asia , 2011,Chuokoron-Shinsha