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GR Japan is pleased to host Mr. Tsuyoshi Hoshino, Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, and a Member of the House of Representatives, for the March meeting of the International Policy Forum (IPF). Mr. Hoshino will discuss his in...

GR Japan is pleased to co-host with the Institute for New Era Strategy (INES) Mr. Susumu Takahashi, Chairman of the Japan Research Institute, Ltd., for the November meeting of the International Policy Forum (IPF). Mr. Takahashi will discuss his insig...

On 14 October, the International Policy Forum invites Naomi Tokashiki, the Deputy Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Director of the House of Representatives Health, Labor and Welfare Committee, and former Parliamentary Minister...

GR Japan and the Institute for New Era Strategy (INES) are pleased to co-host Mr. Hiroshi Nakaso, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), for the September meeting of the International Policy Forum (IPF). Mr. Nakaso will discuss Japan’s monetary ...

With the unprecedented triple crisis of a M9.0 earthquake, a devastating tsunami and a Level 7 nuclear accident, Japan’s government has been confronted by one of the greatest challenges faced by any nation in peacetime. As Vice-Director General of th...

  With gross national debt nearing 200% of the GDP and tax revenue (¥40.1 trillion) predicted to cover just 43% of national expenditures (¥93.1 trillion) in FY2011, Japan was in poor fiscal shape even before the disasters of 11 March.  After the e...