Musashino City Endowment Course "Modern Liberal Arts Special Lecture"

University-wide　Paid　Application required　fall term　 　face-to-face class　

Musashino City Donated Course "Special Lecture on Contemporary Liberal Arts" 2025
"Challenges and Outlook for the Japanese Economy: Aiming to be a country where people can shine even with a declining population"

overview

period	Monday, October 6, 2020 - Monday, January 19, 2020
Day/Period	Monday 4th period (15:15-17:00)
Class format	face-to-face class

schedule

Coordinators: Professor IBARAGI Hideyuki (Faculty of Economics Asia University) / Lecturer Junichi Takahashi (Faculty of Economics Asia University)

time	Lecture content	Lecturer (affiliation, etc.)
October 6th (Monday)	Lecture Guidance	IBARAGI Hideyuki (Professor, Faculty of Economics Asia University)
October 13th (Monday)	Japan's Economy: Past Progress and Outlook	Takao Komine (research Advisor, Japan Center for Economic research; Visiting Professor, Taisho University)
October 20th (Monday)	Problems with Japanese policymaking	Hiroko Ota (President the National Graduate School for Policy research and former Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy)
October 27th (Monday)	Challenges and Prospects for Japanese Companies in the Era of Digital Transformation	Noriyuki Yanagawa (Professor Graduate School of Economics Graduate School of Tokyo)
Monday, November 10th	Challenges and Outlook for the Financial System	Takako Masai (chair, Board of Directors the Board of Directors, SBI Financial and Economic research; former member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan)
Monday, November 17th	Considering human capital management	Kotaro Tsuru (Professor Faculty of Data Science, Otsuma Women's University)
Monday, November 24th	The future of corporate capitalism	IBARAGI Hideyuki (Professor, Faculty of Economics Asia University)
Monday, December 1st	Price Issues and the Japanese Economy	Tsutomu Watanabe (Founder and research Advisor of Nowcast, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo)
Monday, December 8th	Social Security and Democracy	Zenichi Gonjo (Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)
Monday, December 15th	Japan's Productivity and Its Challenges	Masayuki Morikawa (Distinguished Senior Fellow, RIETI; Director, Economic research Institute, Japan research for the Promotion of Machine Industry)
Monday, December 22nd	Challenges for Japan's economic and fiscal policies	Kazuhiro Ta (Advisor to the Japan Research research, former Vice-Minister of the Cabinet Office)
Monday, January 5th	The future direction of the Japanese economy	IBARAGI Hideyuki (Professor, Faculty of Economics Asia University)
Monday, January 19th	Lecture summary	IBARAGI Hideyuki (Professor, Faculty of Economics Asia University)

* Lecturer and themes are subject to change.