FSI researchers strive to understand how countries relate to one another, and what policies are needed to achieve global stability and prosperity. International relations experts focus on the challenging U.S.-Russian relationship, the alliance between the U.S. and Japan and the limitations of America’s counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan.
Foreign aid is also examined by scholars trying to understand whether money earmarked for health improvements reaches those who need it most. And FSI’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center has published on the need for strong South Korean leadership in dealing with its northern neighbor.
FSI researchers also look at the citizens who drive international relations, studying the effects of migration and how borders shape people’s lives. Meanwhile FSI students are very much involved in this area, working with the United Nations in Ethiopia to rethink refugee communities.
Trade is also a key component of international relations, with FSI approaching the topic from a slew of angles and states. The economy of trade is rife for study, with an APARC event on the implications of more open trade policies in Japan, and FSI researchers making sense of who would benefit from a free trade zone between the European Union and the United States.
Appointment of 2009-10 Pantech Fellow in Korean Studies Program
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The Korean Studies Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) is pleased to announce that Peter M. Beck will join the Center for the 2009-2010 academic year. Beck's research will be on the impact of foreign media in North Korea. During his fellowship at the Center, he will hold seminars related to his research project and will be involved in various projects on Korea.
Beck teaches at American University in Washington, D.C. and Ewha University in Seoul. He also writes a monthly column for Weekly Chosun and The Korea Herald. Previously, he was the executive director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and directed the International Crisis Group’s Northeast Asia Project in Seoul. He was also the Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute in Washington. He has served as a member of the Ministry of Unification’s Policy Advisory Committee and as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown and Yonsei universities.
He also has been a columnist for the Korean daily Donga Ilbo, 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. He has published over 100 academic and short articles, testified before Congress, and conducted interviews with the world’s leading media outlets. He 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.
Pantech Fellowships, generously funded by Pantech Co., Ltd., and Curitel Communications, Inc. (the "Pantech Group"), are intended to cultivate a diverse international community of scholars and professionals committed to and capable of grappling with challenges posed by developments in Korea. We invite individuals from the United States, Korea, and other countries to apply.
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Research Presentations by Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows (Session 4)
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In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:
Jun Ding, “Corporate Social Responsibility in State-Owned Enterprises”
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play an important role in China’s industrialization achievement and support social service functions in the planning era. After China entered the marketing era, SOEs declined substantially and are in need of reform. Ding believes SOEs should be restructured and that supernumeraries and social services functions should be separated from the primary mission of SOEs into society. Ding’s research emphasizes recommendations found in corporate social responsibility that exists in China.
Mitsutoshi Kumagai, “Impact on Growing On-line Video Services on Pay TV Business Model”
Recently, YouTube is not the only online video service many people enjoy. Big players of traditional broadcasting industries are making strategic approaches in online space. Kumagai’s presentation reviews and assesses those challenges in TV industries and its value as advertisement media.
Tadashi Ogino, “Smart Meters in the United States and Japan”
A smart meter is an advanced electric meter that measures the electricity usage in more detail than a conventional meter. Utility companies and customers can use this data for energy efficiency. A smart meter is a key component for the next generation electric grid. Many smart meters have already been installed in the US, but smart meters are not used in Japan. Ogino analyzes the current situation of smart meter projects in the US and in Japan. He tries to understand why smart meters are not prominent in Japan.
Ayaka Takashima, "Women Entrepreneurs in Japan and the United States”
Recently in Japan, women entrepreneurs have been becoming one of the career choices for women. As an employee of Nissouken, which provides entrepreneurship program, Takashima is trying to reveal women entrepreneurs' habitat and tendency through comparative research.
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Jun Ding
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Jun Ding is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09. He is also currently the vice president of Petrochina Lanzhou petrochemical company. After receiving his bachelors degree, he joined the Lanzhou petrochemical company. During this time, he received his MBA from Dalian Technology University and his Doctorate in Chemical Physics at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Most recently, Ding has been studying at Chemical Technology University in Beijing for the past four years, majoring in Polymer Chemical Engineering.
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Mitsutoshi Kumagai
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Mitsutoshi Kumagai is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has worked at Sumitomo Corporation since 1993. He has been in charge of the international tradings, marketing of IT devices and developing new business as well as venture investment in the IT industry. He received his BS in Economics at Nagoya University in Japan.
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Tadashi Ogino
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Tadashi Ogino is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-2009.
Ogino started his career as a researcher of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
After being involved in basic software research, he designed the software architecture
of the Mitsubishi Midrange Server, which was one of the most successful computer products
in Mitsubishi. He then worked on many software projects such as wireless base stations, digital right management (DRM) systems, RF-ID systems and others. He also has experience in marketing and planning sections. Currently, he is interested in business incubation in Japan especially in the software field. He received hi BS, MS, and Ph.D in computer engineering from The University of Tokyo.
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Ayaka Takashima
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Ayaka Takashima is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09. She is also an assistant manager of Nissoken which provides corporate clients with educational services for top management, middle management and other employees to align them to the corporate direction and strategies. As an employee of Nissoken, she will research the alignment between the company and the individual through the theory, case studies, empirical studies, etc.
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Research Presentations by Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows (Session 2)
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In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:
Hiroyuki Koyano, "The Strategy for Accerlation of Patent Examination - Focusing on Human Resource Management"
The number of patent application filings has increased across the world as a result of the globalization of the world economy. In addition, technology has become more complex and the demands for a quality patent has grown. Working against this trend, the period of patent examination has become longer, so patent offices have adopted plans to remedy the situation and accelerate patent examination. Hiroyuki Koyano attempts to compare the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) plans with those of JPO’s and analyze the problems focusing mainly on human resource management.
Mitsue Kurihara, "The Recent M&A Boom in Japan"
Mergers and Acquisitons in Japan have been booming since the late 1990s. What initially started as a method for industrial rehabilitation, today, M&A is put to use by many companies as part of their corporate strategy. Utilizing her experiences as an advisor for M&A, Kurihara researches the remarkable trend in the boom of Japanese M&A over the last ten years, as well as the future of Japanese M&A market in terms of where it should be headed.
Bhavna Sharma, “Polymorphisms in Breast Cancer Mutation Carriers: Comparative Studies in Caucasian and Hong Kong Population”
Breast cancer rates differ significantly in Asia compared to the United States and other western countries. Lifestyle and genetic differences between these populations are probably causes of this variation. Sharma presents findings from her study that hypothesized that the genetic breast cancer risk factors that differ between BRCA1/2 mutation carriers in Asia and the U.S. may result in a different magnitude of breast cancer risk among Asians versus Caucasians who carry BRCA1/2 mutations.
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Hiroyuki Koyano
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Hiroyuki Koyano is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09. He joined the Japan Patent Office (JPO), government of Japan in 1994 and has worked for JPO as a patent examiner, handling patent applications mainly in the field of construction and housing equipments. In 2003, he was in charge of researching trends on patent applications in the fields of physics, optics and construction. In 2006, he was also assigned to a position where he managed the outsourcing of prior art searches for expediting the examination process. He received his BS in agriculture from the University of Tokyo.
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Mitsue Kurihara is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09 and 2009-10. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, she worked at the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) for twenty years. She has comprehensive experience in policy-based financing, in addition to having been involved in the merger of Japan Development Bank with Hokkaido-Tohoku Development Finance Public Corporation into DBJ during her term in the Treasury Department. Over the past five years, she has leveraged her wide network of regional bank and enterprise connections to provide advice on various industrial restructuring and other M&A deals. Kurihara’s latest position at the DBJ was as director in the Department for Business Development (in charge of advisory services for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and corporate strategy planning).
Kurihara was also assigned for a time at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. She graduated from Hitotsubashi University with a BA in law.
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Bhavna Sharma
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Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow
Bhavna Sharma is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2008-09. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, she has been working for Reliance Life Sciences in Navi Mumbai (India), as Laboratory Manager, Molecular Medicine. Her job responsibilities include Laboratory Management - allocation of routine diagnostic tests, review & approval of diagnostic test results, documentation preparation for standard operating procedures, protocol of analysis, test report formats, validation documents, planning for inter/intra -laboratory validation & quality control testing, and organizing plans for training. Sharma is doing her post-graduate work in Microbiology and previously worked in Molecular Medicine at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Laboratory of Cancer Genes at Cancer Research Institute prior to joining Reliance Life Sciences in June 2001.
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