Public Finance/Social Security System and Intergenerational Issues in De-population Society- International Conference
Agenda

Welcome Remarks - Michito Ishii, President, Policy Research Institute (PRI), Ministry of Finance (MOF)
Opening Remarks - Masahiro Kawai, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Session 1 - Current Japanese Conditions and Problems: Public Finance /Social Security System and Intergenerational Issues
Chair: Masayuki Goto, Executive Vice President, PRI, MOF
Speakers: Toshihiro Ihori, Professor, The University of Tokyo
Shinji Yamashige, Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Panelists: Noriyuki Takayama, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Hisakazu Kato, Professor, Meiji University
Questions

Lunch

Session 2 - Current Asian and European Conditions, Problems and Regional Cooperation of Social Security’s Infrastructure such as Medical Care, etc. for the Aged (including the financial markets as a direct foreign investment base, EPA, etc.)
Chair: Mario B. Lamberte, Director of Research, ADBI
Speakers: Mukul G. Asher, Professor, The National University of Singapore
Hyungpyo Moon, Senior Fellow, Korea Development Institute
Panelists: Doo Yong Yang, Research Fellow, ADBI
Seiritsu Ogura, Professor, Hosei University

Questions

Coffee Break

Session 2 (continued)
Chair: Toshiki Kanamori, Executive Vice President, PRI, MOF
Speakers: Ole Settergren, Expert in the Government Work-incapacity, The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden
Axel Boersch-Supan, Professor, The University of Mannheim, Germany
Panelists: Hideaki Tanaka, Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Katsuaki Matsumoto, Professor, Hitotsubashi University

Questions

Coffee Break

Session 3 - The Choice of Japan and other Countries toward the Construction of a Sustainable Social Security System
Chair: Susan F. Stone, Senior Research Fellow, ADBI
Speakers: Takashi Oshio, Professor, Kobe University
Yasushi Iwamoto, Professor, The University of Tokyo
Panelists: Susumu Takahashi, Vice Chairman, The Japan Research Institute
Yoshibumi Aso, Professor, Keio University

Questions

Summary - Keimei Kaizuka, Honorary President, PRI, MOF

Closing Remarks - Noriyuki Takayama, Professor, Hitotsubashi University

Closing of Sessions

Reception