10Th Annual Conference of Japan Academy for Asian Market Economies

Call for Participants

Japan Academy for Asian Market Economies (JAFAME)

10th Annual Conference of Japan Academy for Asian Market Economies

July, 15-16, 2006, Kinki University, East-Osaka, Japan

The 10th Annual Conference of the Japan Academy for Asian Market Economies (JAFAME) will be held in East-Osaka during July 15-16, 2006 under the auspices of the Kinki University. The scholars and experts from various academic institutions in Japan engaging in the matters of Asian market economy will come together for this conference and contribute their most recent achievements. Main discussing theme for the conference is ‘Emerging Shape of East Asian Economic Community’.

There will be two tracks in the forthcoming conference; the main track and the track for workshops. The main track consists of two sessions; one devoted to the relevant aspects to the main theme of ‘Emerging Shape of East Asian Economic Community’, another for other important issues around Asian market economies. On this track presentations will be made in Japanese language.

Commemorating the 10th year, JAFAME will hold the track for workshops aiming at accepting scholars, experts and researchers from all over the world. Any excellent papers and proposals should be welcome in this track, as long as they concern Asian economy. Especially we cordially welcome participants from Asian countries. Here official language is English (possibly you could use Japanese language if you would like to). Furthermore, we are expecting to have graduate students who would like to contribute their excellent papers for the presentation in these workshops.

Venue

Kinki University, School of Economics,

3-4-1 Kowakae Higashi-Osaka, 577-8502, Japan

(Transportation from OSAKA-Kansai Airport (KIX) to Kinki University)

Recommended Route: Bus and Railway

1. Bus: From Airport to Kintetsu-Uehonmachi (51 min. ¥1,300) …2 or 3 shuttles an hour

2. Kintetsu Railway (Osaka Line): From Uehonmachi to Nagase (15 min. ¥250) …every 15 min.

3. Walk: From Nagase Station to Kinki University…about 15 minutes

(Transportation from Shinkansen Shin-OSAKA Station to Kinki University)

Recommended Route: Subway and Railway

1. Subway: From Shin-Osaka to Nanba (20 min. ¥270)

2. Kintetsu Railway: From Nanba Station (Kintetsu) to Nagase (Change the train at Tsuruhashi Station to Osaka line) (15min. ¥250)… every 15 min.

3. Walk: From Nagase Station to Kinki University…about 15 minutes

Conference Theme

Emerging Shape of ‘East Asian Economic Community’?

PROGRAMME

Since the Asian Crisis of 1997, ‘ASEAN plus 3 (Japan, China and South Korea)’ has become firmly established as a framework for promoting East Asian corporation. The joint statement of 1999 concerning East Asian corporation has accelerated wide range of corporation including not only economic matters like those of trade, investment, currency and finance, but also other fields like those of social development, human resources, science and technology. Moreover, it made political matter such as security problem come within the range of corporation. East Asian Summit of Dec. 2005 in Malaysia will presumably make this move more materialized to become a new phase of the East Asian Community. In the midst of these trends, this conference will deal with the following problems: How can we evaluate the recent move of regional cooperation within East Asia? How far East Asian Community has been forwarded? What kind of societies is it going to make in this region? What is the difference between East Asian Community and European Community (EU)? What difficulty will be on the way to the intended goal? What role can Japan play for this process?

We would like to discuss a wide area of problems around these issues. We are expecting far-sighted, ambitious and heuristic contributions for this conference.

Keynote Speech: Emerging Shape of East Asian Economic Community

Nishizawa, Nobuyoshi, Kinki University

Main Track: Plenary Sessions

Session 1 Emerging Shape of East Asian Economic Community

1. East Asian Community vs. EU, from the viewpoint of strategic inter-regionalism of EU

Suzui, Kiyomi, Hiroshima Shudo University

2. Formation of East Asian Community and the stepwise integration in WTO

Yamaura, Hiromi, Fukushima University

3. Special Lectures

Kuwahara, Tasuku, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Aoike, Satoshi, Manager, International Economic Affairs Department, Economic Affairs Bureau, Osaka City Government

Nakatsuka, Kino, Division of Economic Affairs, Municipality of East-Osaka

Session 2 Related Issues concerning East Asian economy

1. A Study of Coase Theorem and The Emission Rights

Hayama, Koji, Meiji University

2. Foreign direct investment and Economic Growth in Debtor Economy

Nishiyama, Hiroyuki, University of Hyogo

3. Development of Distribution System adopted by Japanese Warehouse companies in ASEAN region

Ishihara, Shinji, Tokai University

4. Financial Challenge of Vietnam toward WTO membership

Nguen Duc Lap, Hiroshima Shudo University

5. Regional Development and Employment in Indonesia – Possibility in the Area Having Transmigration Settlements - (Pembangunan Daerah dan Lapangan Kerja di Indonesia – Kemungkinannya di Wilayah Yang Ada Pemukiman Transmigrasi-)

Hayashida, Hideki, Doshisha University

6. China's Way to Start and Expand FDI Policy: Gaining Political Feasibility

Shimono, Hisako, The University of Kitakyushu

Track for Workshops

15 July 2006

9:40-12:35

Workshop 1-A FTA Movement in East Asia and Pacific Region

Chair: Teruhisa Yamada, Yokohama College of Commerce

1. Rhetoric and Reality: Regional and Bilateral Free Trade Areas in the Asia-Pacific

Hans C. Blomqvist, Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

2. Theory of butterfly-shaped economic regions --- Mode of regional economic development in East Asia and Southeast Asia

Zhan Bo-shan, Institute of East Asia, Fujian, China

3. Push and Pull Factors in the East Asian Development Process

Norbert L. Bauer, University of Bayreuth, Germany

4. East Asian FTA and the impact on ASEAN Economies: A Preliminary Assessment

Mohamed Aslam, Dept. of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya

5. Accessibility of Regional Economic Integration and East Asian Economic Role

Marlar Aung, University of Distance Education, Ministry of Education, Myanmar

13:40-16:00

Workshop 1-B Investing in Japan and new Asia - the possibility of making new dynamic zone? Chair: Tatsuo Nobu, Kokushikan University

1. Are barriers to entry changing? Finnish software companies in the Japanese market

Arto Ojala, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

2. Local Government’s Programs to promote FDI: Case study of Osaka City Government

Yoshihisa Fujita, Manager, Business Development, Economic Affairs Bureau, Osaka City Government

3. Japanese FDI in Bangladesh: Deepening and Diversifying for the Future

Monir Hossaian Moni, Faculty of Social Science & Japan Study Center, University of Dhaka

4. Japan’s Philosophy and Economic Interests of the Economic Partnership with ASEAN -“investment-oriented” approach, but through regional or bilateral?-

Tasuku Kuwabara, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

16 July 2006

10:00-11:45

Workshop 2-A New Relations between Management and Labor in Asian Region

Chair: Juro Nakagawa, Nihon University

1. Nurturing Japanese Management Practices in Asia: Lessons from Sri Lanka and India

K.K.U. Ananda Kumara, International Exchange Center, Suzuka International University

2. State of Unionism and Collective Bargaining in Asian Economies: The Case of the Philippines

Marie E. Aganon, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of the Philippines

3. Challenges to Unionism in Japan

Corinne Boyles, School of Economics, Kinki University

12:40-15:00

Workshop 2-B Changing Features of Life and Labor Condition in Globalizing Asia

Chair: Marjatta Rahikainen, University of Helsinki

1. Industrial Restructuring, Changing Employment Patterns and Unskilled Foreign Workers in the Japanese Manufacturing Sector

Masataka Nakagawa, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University

2. Social Safety Net of Indonesia ––its history and the present conditions —

Toshihiko Hozumi, Faculty of Economics, Aichi University

3. Child labour in Asia and Europe – is there a connection between the two?

Marjatta Rahikainen, Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki

4. Consumerism or Conservation: Passive Economists and Our Endangered Future

Robert Kowalczyk, School of Literature, Arts and Cultural Studies, Kinki University

Registration Procedure

1. Registration Fee: Japanese participants (Non member of JAFAME) ….. ¥10,000

Participants from foreign countries and Members of JAFAME ….Free of charge

(Participants should pay for their foods and lodgings besides registration. Conference staffs would be pleased to help you.)

2. Papers presented in a workshop will be eligible to be submitted for publishing on JAFAME Annual Report in 2007. Reader of JAFAME will decide whether the paper will be published or not.

3. Those experts, scholars or researchers who have full-time jobs can have an invitation letter if they require it in order to visit Japan, which JAFAME will issue. However, other contributors who would like to get an invitation letter, for an example, graduate students must send in a certification letter issued by their affiliation (for examples, authorized by Dean or President of his/her affiliation) to JAFAME.

Social Activities

. In cooperation with East-Osaka municipality, we can offer a fact-finding tour to the concentrated industrial zones of East-Osaka for contributors of workshops as paper presenters. This tour will be held on 14 July, because factories and offices of the regional companies will not work on weekend. Participants who would like to attend this tour require registration beforehand, preferably at the time of sending their abstracts. As small enterprises have a limited capacity for the visitors to accept, we strongly ask the possible participants to let us know their wishes as soon as possible. Also we have a plan to visit one of the most important manufacturing companies in the Kansai area, which will also need your registration before the dates of conference. Beside these fact-finding tours, we are planning to have excursions for neighboring cities, including Kyoto or Nara, capitals of the ancient Japan. Extra charges will be required for all these tours.

Accommodation

1. Hotel AWINA OSAKA: single: ¥6400 Twin: ¥12600 for 2p or ¥8000 for 1p

Tel. +81 6 6772 1441

Fax. +81 6 6772 1095

Address: Osaka-shi Tennoji-ku Ishigatsuji-cho 19-12

http://www.awina-osaka.com

2. MIYAKO HOTEL OSAKA: single: ¥8000 Twin: ¥13000

Tel. +81 6 6773 1111

Fax. +81 6 6773 3322

Address: Osaka-shi Tennoji-ku Uehonmachi 6-1-55

http://www.miyakohotels.ne.jp/osaka/english/index.html

3. Guesthouse of Kinki University: ¥2500

We can offer you this lodging for only a limited number of participants. Our university is a little bit far from city-center of Osaka. (Please see the explanation part of the conference Venue in this Announcement)

How much cost will be required for staying in Osaka

It depends, of course, upon your taste and your purse, but the average Japanese people will normally spend about (1US$=¥115 on the date around 2006/04/23):

For breakfast or lunch: ¥300 - ¥800. For dinner: ¥800 - ¥1,500.

For coffee: ¥200 - ¥450. For beer: ¥600 (600cc)

For lodging: ¥5,000 - ¥15,000

What is JAFAME?

JAFAME is an academic organization, established in 1997.11.22, to promote a wide range of studies concerning Asian market economy, which include history, theory and positive researches. In 2006, commemorating the 10th year, JAFAME will hold workshops for scholars and researchers from all over the world. Any excellent papers and proposals are welcome. Especially we cordially welcome from Asian countries. Main conference theme for the forthcoming conference is ‘Emerging Shape of East Asian Economic Community’.

Conference Themes of JAFAME hitherto have been as follow;

1998 Japanese Economy and Firms in the midst of Asian Crisis

1999 Asian Market Economy in the coming 21st Century

2000 Revival of Asian Market Economy and its Prospect

2002 Some scenarios for Asian economic development in the 21 Century

2003 Asian Market in the Global Economy

2004 Changing Asia – FTA vs. Globalism

2005 Trends in Asian Market from the standpoint of Japan

Contact

Japan Academy for Asian Market Economies (JAFAME)

Prof. Takehito Onishi, (Director)

Kinki University, School of Economics: