Natsuki Kamiya is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08 and 2008-09. He works for the Shizuoka Prefectural Government, one of the local governments in Japan. He is interested in immigration policy in California. He graduated from Chuo University in Tokyo, where he majored in law.
Takao Isozaki is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he worked at the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) for seventeen years. Isozaki's experiences at DBJ included policy-based financing, finance planning and coordination, and human resources management. He was also assigned for a time at the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry.
Isozaki's latest position at the DBJ was as director in the credit analysis department. he completed his undergraduate studies in law at Tokyo University.
Mari Ichinomoto is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08 and 2008-09. She is also an official of the Industrial Recruitment and Location Division, Kumamoto Prefectural Government in Japan, with a mission to promote overseas direct investment into the country. Prior to this position, she was sent to Kumamoto trade promotion office in Singapore as a representative of the Kumamoto Prefectural Government dealing with trade promotion between Asia and Kumamoto. She graduated in foreign studies from Kitakyushu University.
Dr. Xuteng Hu is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08. He is also currently the vice president of Petrochemical Research Institute, PetroChina.
Dr. Hu has been studying in Tsinghua University for nine years, majoring in Chemical Engineering. He also received a dual baccalaureate in Mathematics. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). As a main executant of CNPC, he took part in the reorganization of China's petroleum and petrochemical industries between CNPC and SINOPEC in 1998.
Additionally, as PetroChina was established in 1999, he was chosen to participate in the IPO of PetroChina. He was the main constitutor in planning Chemicals & Marketing Business, which is one of the four main businesses of PetroChina. Following this, he was appointed the president assistant of Fushun Petrochemical Company in 2001. In 2003, he was promoted to his present position in charge of constructing the R&D system of Refining & Chemicals. Presently, he is also the deputy secretary-general and executive member of the council of Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC) and the deputy director of natural gas committee of the Chinese Petroleum Society (CPS).
Naoki Hiyama is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he worked for the Asahi Shimbun, a national newspaper company in Japan, where he took charge of the digital media division as a staff editor and reporter for their web news site asahi.com. His research interests are the new web service in US newspaper industry, or the post trend of 'web 2.0'. He graduated from Tsukuba University, where he majored in media relations. and in 1997-1998, he participated in an experienced journalist training program in Paris.
Atsushi Goto is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has worked at Sumitomo Corporation since 1996. He has been in charge of developing new business as well as venture investment in IT industry. He received his BS and MS in Electric Engineering in Kyoto University in Japan.
Shinya Fushimi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-2008. A 20-year IT industry veteran, Fushimi started his career as a researcher of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, and developed various innovative products. One of his products, a hardware sorting engine, made a new world record of data sorting performance in 2000. He then served various management positions in R&D, sales, marketing, and engineering. Most recently, he was Head of Data Centric Solution Business Unit of Mitsubishi Electric. The unit has developed more than 1,000 new customers.
He received BS, MS, and Ph.D in computer science from The University of Tokyo. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he was with the Sloan Master's Program of Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and received a master's degree in business management.
He received a Moto-oka Memorial Prize, a Best Paper Award for Young Researcher of Information Processing Society of Japan, Mitsubishi Electric's President Award, and Best Patent Award. He holds 52 patents in Japan, US, Germany, France, UK, China, Taiwan, and Korea, and lectured on database technologies and IT business at various universities such as The University of Tokyo in Tokyo and Ewha Women's University in Seoul. He is the recipient of an IBM Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in 1983.
Dennis Arroyo is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he worked as the Director of National Planning and Policy Staff at the National Economic and Development Authority in the Philippines. Arroyo also formerly worked as a consultant for the World Bank in Washington DC and the World Bank office in Manila. Arroyo has spent much of his career in survey research with Social Weather Stations (SWS), which is a prominent organization in the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR).
Tens of thousands of North Korean women are hiding in China trying to avoid capture by Chinese and North Korean police. Many have been sold into sexual slavery or as brides to unwed Chinese farmers. The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea is completing a two-year study based on interviews with over 70 of these women. Beck will discuss the results of this field research as well as steps that can be taken to improve their situation.
Peter M. Beck is the executive director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. He is also a columnist for Weekly Chosun and The Korea Herald. Prior to joining the Committee, he directed the International Crisis Group's Northeast Asia Project in Seoul (2004-2007) and was the director of research and academic affairs at the Korea Economic Institute in Washington, DC (1997-2004). Beck has served as a member of the Ministry of Unification's Policy Advisory Committee (2005-2007), and as an adjunct faculty member at American, Ewha, Georgetown and Yonsei universities. He was also a columnist for the Korean daily Donga Ilbo (2001-04), an instructor at the University of California at San Diego, a translator for the Korea Foundation, and a staff assistant at Korea's National Assembly and Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Beck received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, completed the Korean language program at Seoul National University, and conducted his graduate studies at U.C. San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.
Philippines Conference Room
This essay was written in September 2007 in an interstitial if not pivotal moment: between the 40th birthday of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok on 8 August, and the expected announcement of an ASEAN Charter at the 13th summit of the Association in Singapore on 20 November. Future analysts may look back on the 2007 Summit as a threshold event, or mere business as usual, or something in between. Whatever their judgment, the intermission between the birthday of the organization and that of its new charter seemed an appropriately transitional time to comment, however briefly, on the Association and some of the challenges it faces.
I also wanted to link this essay to the person whom this Festschrift honors: Jusuf Wanandi. Accordingly, I selected an op ed by him on ASEAN and its plans for a charter first published in April 2006,1 and made it a basis for my own ruminations. In thus responding to his ideas and using them as points of interpretive departure, I hoped to illustrate the stimulus that he has provided for students of ASEAN, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia over many years.
I was tempted to predict the content of the charter and its impact on ASEAN. But that would have amounted to short-term speculation, and I could well have been wrong. I chose instead to consider how questions of democracy may challenge the creativity of ASEAN's leaders and advisers in the longer run, whatever the text of its new charter does or does not say.
