The year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of friendly cooperation between Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
In this commemorative year, we will once again look back on the broad relationship between Japan and the Southeast Asian region, and together with you, we will consider the role that JICA and development cooperation should play in the future of Japan and the region and its relationship with the region over the next 50 years.
Event Details
Date & Time: Thursday, November 9, 2023, 13:30-17:15
November 9, 2023 (Thu) 13:30-17:15 Venue: International Conference Hall, JICA Sadako Ogata Peace and Development Institute (10-5 Ichigaya-Honmuracho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
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(Simultaneous English-Japanese interpretation available)
JICA Opening Session and 1st Panel Session in English, 2nd Panel Session in Japanese (simultaneous English-Japanese interpretation will be provided) Admission Free (advance registration required)
*We will close the program as soon as the maximum number of participants reaches 100.
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Program
13:30 Opening Session
Opening Remarks Mikio Hatsukaeda, JICA Executive Director
Mikio Hatsukaeda, Executive Director, JICA Video message from Kao Kim Hong, Secretary-General of ASEAN
Keynote Speech by Mr. Kao Kim Hong, Secretary-General of ASEAN Akihiko Tanaka, President, JICA
13:55 1st Panel Session
ASEAN and JICA: 50 Years So Far, 50 Years Next”
What has JICA’s more than 50 years of cooperation brought to ASEAN countries, how should JICA’s programs be changed for the future relationship between Japan and Southeast Asia, and what Japan should learn from ASEAN countries will be discussed with internationally active researchers and experts from Southeast Asia and Japan. What is the future of Japan and Southeast Asia?
Moderator Izumi Ohno, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
Izumi Ohno, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) Panelists (in alphabetical order) Mie Ohba, Professor, Kanagawa University
Hitoshi Sato Professor, The University of Tokyo
Professor, Siripong Wachawarkutamathat University
José Rizal Damri Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia
Mie Ohba, Professor, Kanagawa University Hitoshi Sato, Professor, University of Tokyo José Rizal Damri, Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia Mitsuya Araki, Advisor and Chief Editor, The Journal of International Development, Inc.
15:45 Second panel session
ASEAN and Japan: 2073 to Now.”
Together with experts from various fields, we will discuss what messages we would like to convey to the people of the ASEAN region and Japan if we were to look back on the present 50 years from now.
1 . Lecture: “Southeast Asia and Japan 50 years later” by Yoichi Mine, Director, Sadako Ogata Institute for Peace and Development, JICA
Lecture: “Southeast Asia and Japan 50 years later” by Yoichi Mine, Director, Sadako Ogata Institute for Peace and Development, JICA 2 . Panel Discussion
Moderator: Kojun Nakajima, Research Officer, Southeast Asia Division I, Southeast Asia and Pacific Department, JICA
Kojun Nakajima, Research Officer, Southeast Asia Division I, Southeast Asia and Pacific Department, JICA Panelists (in alphabetical order) Ken Fujitani, Senior Editor, Asahi Shimbun with Planet
Maya Horii Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company Japan
Sakura Hotta, Law and Justice Team, Governance Group, Governance and Peacebuilding Division, JICA
Le Long Son Founder and CEO, ESUHAI, Inc.
Yutaka Tokushima Representative Director & CEO, Instalim Inc.
17:15 Closing remarks
Closing Remarks Mikio Hatsukaeda, JICA Executive Director
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Profile of Speakers
ASEAN Secretary General
Kao Kim Hong Mr. Kao Kim Hong has focused on strengthening Cambodia’s international relations, policy advocacy, and promotion of research, education, and development, particularly in ASEAN, and served two terms as Minister to the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia from 2013 to 2022. He has published numerous books and articles on Cambodia and ASEAN. He is a member of the Supreme National Economic Council of Cambodia, a Senior Fellow at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, and a member of the Asia Society Global Council. He is also a board member of the Institute for Cooperation and Peace in Cambodia and the Organization for World Development and Cooperation, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Red Cross of Cambodia.
With a mission to provide education to the underprivileged youth of Cambodia, he founded the University of Cambodia in 2003 and served as its president until his retirement in October 2022. For his numerous contributions to Cambodia, he was awarded the Royal Order of Cambodia, the Royal Order of Sowatara, and the Grand Order of National Merit. He also received an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree from Ohio University in the United States in 2007 and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Kalinga Institute of Technology in India in 2014. He also received an honorary doctorate in political science from Pusan National University of Foreign Studies in South Korea in June 2023 in recognition of his contributions to ASEAN.After returning from his studies in the U.S. in 1993, he worked for a think tank in Cambodia specializing in ASEAN and international affairs. He then held various positions in the Royal Government of Cambodia, including two terms as Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from August 2001 to August 2013. He holds a B.A. in Asian Studies from Baylor University, an M.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in International Studies from Ohio University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is married and has two children in Phnom Penh.
President of JICA
Akihiko Tanaka B.A. in Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo, M.A. in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.). D. in International Politics. He has served as Professor at the Institute of Oriental Culture, the University of Tokyo (1998-2012, 2015-2017), Vice President of the University of Tokyo (2009-2012), President of JICA (2012-2015), and President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) (2017-2022), etc. He will serve as President of JICA (for the second time) from 2022. He was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2012.
Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
Izumi Ohno is Professor and Director of the International Cooperation Course at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). He is also a Senior Research Advisor at the Sadako Ogata Institute for Peace and Development Studies of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). He specializes in international development policy, international cooperation, industrial development in developing countries, and development and business. She has worked for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (now JICA), the World Bank, the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF), and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), among others, before assuming her current position in 2002. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan-Thailand Economic Cooperation Society (JTECS). He holds a Master of Public Policy (MPA) from Princeton University’s Graduate School of Public Policy. He received the Minister of Foreign Affairs Award in 2023.
Professor, Kanagawa University
Mie Ohba was born in Tokyo in 1968. Graduated from International Christian University. D. from the University of Tokyo. D. in Science. After working as an assistant at the University of Tokyo Graduate School, an associate professor and professor at Tokyo University of Science, a visiting scholar at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and a research fellow at Harvard University’s Japan-US Relations Program, she assumed her current position in April 2020. He has been a research fellow at the Harvard-U.S. Program on Japan-ASEAN Relations since April 2020, specializing in international relations, international politics, international politics of the Asia Pacific/East Asia, regionalism and regional integration in Asia, and Japan-Southeast Asia relations, etc. He received the 21st Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award in 2005 and the 6th NIRA Dairai Policy Research Award. He chaired the Expert Group on the 50th Anniversary of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation from May 2022 to February 2023.
Professor, The University of Tokyo
Hitoshi Sato was born in Tokyo in 1968. Currently Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Oriental Cultural Studies. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Culture, Special Assistant to the President, and Visiting Researcher at the Sadako Ogata Institute for Development and Peace Studies of JICA. After graduating from the University of Tokyo with a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology, he studied at Harvard University and Yale University. In 2004, he was seconded to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Thailand as a policy advisor for one year. His recent publications include “Kekkonai na Shakai: ‘Open Dependency’ wo Tsukuru” (Society without Conflict: Creating ‘Open Dependency’) (NHK Books, 2023) and “Kaihatsu kyoudou no tsukurena kata” (How Development Cooperation is Created) (University of Tokyo Press, 2021).
Professor, Thammasat University
Dr. Siripong Wachawaluk is currently a Professor at the Department of Political Science, Thammasat University, Thailand. He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University and Dean of the School of Social Innovation at Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand. He is the founder and past president of the Thai-Japan Studies Association. He received his B.A. from the Department of Political Science, Thammasat University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the School of Law, Nagoya University. His research interests include Japan’s foreign policy toward Southeast Asia, particularly Japanese ODA policy and practice in the Mekong region. His most recent publications include “The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era” in Ciorciari, John D. and Kiyoteru Tsutsu (eds.), Japan’s NGOsand Effective Development Cooperation in Mekong Countries (Michigan State University Press, 2022, pp. 197-222), “Japan’s Role for Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Amidst the Great Powers Competition and Its Implications for EU-Japan Partnership” (Shigenoi Koki ed. Relations and Its Implications for Regional Cooperation” (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2022, pp. 63-79).
Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia
José Rizal Damri is currently the Director of the Indonesian Institute for Strategic and International Studies. His research interests include international trade, regional integration, and globalization of value chains. He also focuses on international economic governance and the political economy of the multilateral trading system. He has published extensively in these areas, directing attention to the impact of power relations on global and regional economic prospects. He holds a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate School of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also involved in networking East Asian research institutions such as ARTNet, ERIA-RIN, and Think 20. He is currently co-chair of the Indonesian Pacific Economic Cooperation Commission (INCPEC). In addition, he is active in various policy forums, including as research coordinator of the Indonesia Services Dialogue, a forum for the development of Indonesia’s services sector.
Advisor to the International Development Journal, Inc. and Chief Editor of the International Development Journal
Mr. Mitsuya Araki, born in 1936, is an advisor and executive editor of the International Development Journal, Inc. In 1964, he joined the World Economic Research Association, and in 1967, he participated in the launch of the International Development Journal, which was named after the late Saburo Orai, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, He has covered dozens of developing countries, mainly in Asia, for more than 55 years, and has witnessed firsthand the reality of Japan’s ODA while participating in government research missions. He received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon in May 2016.
Sadako Ogata, Director, Peace and Development Institute, JICA
Yoichi Mine graduated from Kyoto University with a B.A. in Literature and a M.A. in Economics from the same university. Specialized in human security and African area studies, he has been a visiting researcher at JICA-RI since 2008, and will be the Director of JICA’s Sadako Ogata Institute for Peace and Development Studies from April 2023. His publications include “Oral History of Development Cooperation: Beyond the Crisis” (University of Tokyo Press, 2023), “World Map of 2100: The Age of Afrasia” (Iwanami Shinsho, 2019), “Contemporary Africa and Development Economics: In the Rough Wave of Market Economy” (Nippon Hyoronsha, 1999), “South Africa: ‘Rainbow Country South Africa: The Rainbow Nation” (Iwanami Shinsho, 1996), and “Connecting Africa and Asia: Afrasia As a Benign Community” (Routledge, 2022). He has also edited and translated numerous books. He is also a professor in the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Research Officer, Southeast Asia Division I, Southeast Asia and Pacific Department, JICA
Mr. Kojun Nakajima joined JICA in 2013. He has been consistently involved in Southeast Asia since joining JICA, and has been in charge of the Philippines, Myanmar, and Indonesia. He has been involved in the development of developing countries through energy and climate change measures, infrastructure, and private partnerships (overseas investment and loans). He has a wide range of experience from policy and planning support to partner governments to public and private financing of individual projects. He has published a book of Myanmar photos at his own expense (2021), using landscape and portrait photos he took during his stay in Myanmar. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Keio University and a Master of International Public Policy (MIPP) from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Senior Editor, Asahi Shimbun with Planet
Ken Fujitani Studied at Silliman University in the Philippines while attending International Christian University (ICU). After joining Asahi Shimbun, he served as the Rome, Belgrade, and Jakarta bureau chiefs, Asia bureau chief, social media editor, and assistant editor-in-chief. In February of this year, he launched with Planet, a media outlet focusing on development issues and solutions in developing countries. He is an omnivore who has covered conflict and disaster sites in Kosovo, former Zaire, Aceh, and Myanmar, as well as politics, sports, and entertainment. He is the co-author of “The Pope: John Paul II Runs the World” (Iwanami Shoten) and “Beyond TSUNAMI: The Sumatra Earthquake and the People of Aceh” (Poplar Publishing Co., Ltd.). He holds a master’s degree in development studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is a part-time lecturer at Musashi University.
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company Japan
Maya Horii is a leader of the Public Sector Practice in Japan. Throughout the past 20 years, she has been engaged in strategic and organizational change consulting to multi-bi institutions on international development on a variety of topics including private sector collaboration, investment promotion, energy development, financial inclusion, sustainability, digital transformation, and diversity and inclusion. In Southeast Asia, she has been involved in projects in the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar, etc. She was in the U.S. from 2005-18, with 10 years based in Washington, DC, among others. Outside of client service, she has led numerous internal and external women’s leadership initiatives.
Law and Justice Team, Governance Group, Governance and Peacebuilding Division, JICA
Sakura Hotta was born in Kyoto in 1997. Graduated from Waseda University, School of International Liberal Studies (Sociology Exchange Program, University of Copenhagen) and joined JICA in 2021, where she worked mainly in the education and health sectors supporting Japanese companies’ overseas expansion into developing countries including ASEAN countries. Prior to joining JICA, she worked as an expatriate with e-Education, a certified NPO, in Camiguin Island, Philippines, where she helped establish an online English conversation program for Japanese junior and senior high school students and provided educational support for students who had dropped out of junior and senior high school. He also worked as an expatriate for e-Education in Camiguin Island, Philippines. In addition, he has been involved in the management of a shared house where Southeast Asian and Japanese people living in Japan live together.
Founder & CEO, ESUHAI, Inc.
Mr. Le Long Son was born in 1970 in Hanoi, Vietnam. After graduating from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, he studied at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and completed his master’s degree in mechanical engineering, January 2023: Proposed at the 2nd hearing of the Expert Committee on the Technical Intern Training System and the Specific Technical Intern Training System.
Representative Director and CEO, Instalim Corporation
Mr. Yasushi Tokushima holds a Master’s degree from the Department of Media and Governance at Keio University. He started his career as a founding member of a hardware venture for LCD components. He then studied medical device manufacturing and design at a major medical device manufacturer before moving to the Philippines as a JICA Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOCV). He worked for the Ministry of Trade and Industry as a PM of the SME Revitalization PJ and received the Good Design Award in 2014. After returning from the Philippines, he started developing a 3D printed prosthetic foot solution, the basis of this project, and founded Instalim in April 2018, where he currently works. He is also a part-time lecturer at the College of Medicine and Dentistry (2018-19) and a visiting associate professor at Hiroshima University (2023-). He has received numerous awards, including the Japan ITU Association Award Incentive Award and the JICA Overseas Cooperation Volunteers Returning Member Social Return Award Grand Prize.
Director of JICA
Mikio Hatsueda After graduating from Waseda University School of Law, Mr. Hatsueda joined the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF). After receiving a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan Graduate School of Law, he joined the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), where he served as the Chief of Section 2, Development Division 3 (India, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives) and the Chief of Planning Division, Development Operations Department. He has served as JICA Senior Advisor and as JICA Executive Director since October 2023.
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