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Low growth rates, deflation and increasing government debt were inherent challenges to the Japanese development over the past years. Now, prime minister Shinzo Abe is countering these challenges with a new economic policy model - the so called "Abenomics". Next to economic and monetary policy interventions, structural reforms are supposed to form the centerpiece of this policy model. And indeed the Japanese economy is recording positive growth rates since some months. Neverthess - in light of aging societies and high levels of goverment debt - the question remains, whether this growth will be sustainable.

Tuesday, 29. October 2013

11:30h

Welcome remarks

• Frank Priess

  Deputy Head Department European and International Cooperation, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.

• Takayuki Miyashita

  Chargé d'Affaires, Embassy of Japan to Germany

Keynote speech

Amb. Shotaro Oshima

Chairman, Institute for International Economic Studies, Tokio

12:00h

Panel discussion

• Amb. Shotaro Oshima

  Chairman, Institute for International Economic Studies, Tokio

• Hubert Knirsch

  Head of Unit International Economic and Financial Policy, Federal Foreign Office

• Prof. Dr. Werner Pascha

  Chair of East Asian Economic Studies/Japan and Korea, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Prof. Dr. Patrick Köllner

Director of the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

13:00h

Lunch

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