Institut français de recherche sur le Japon à la Maison franco-japonaise (Umifre 19, MEAE-CNRS)

Né le 2 août 1964 à Paris 14^e

Formation universitaire

• Lycée Henri IV à Paris
• Maîtrise de russe (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Inalco)
• Diplôme de l’Institut d’études politiques (IEP) de Paris

Carrière

• Chargé de la politique étrangère de la Russie, de la Communauté des États indépendants (CEI) et du Caucase à la direction de l’Europe continentale au ministère des Affaires étrangères (1993-95)
• Premier secrétaire de l’ambassade de France au Bahrein (1995-97)
• Chargé des relations entre l’Union européenne et les pays Afrique, Caraïbes, Pacifique (ACP) et de la politique de développement de l’Union européenne à la direction de la coopération européenne au ministère des Affaires étrangères (1997-2001)
• Conseiller technique au cabinet de Pierre Moscovici (ministre délégué aux Affaires européennes) (2001-02)
• Premier secrétaire à la Représentation permanente de la France auprès de l’Union européenne (UE) à Bruxelles (Belgique) (2002-06)
• Deuxième conseiller à la Représentation permanente française auprès de l’Organisation des Nations Unies (ONU) à New York (Etats-Unis) (2006-08)
• Secrétaire général adjoint du Secrétariat général des affaires européennes (SGAE) (2008-09)
• Chargé de mission auprès du secrétaire général du ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes (2009-12)
• Conseiller diplomatique au cabinet de Jean-Marc Ayrault (Premier ministre) (2012-14)
• Ambassadeur aux Pays-Bas (2014-16)
• Directeur du cabinet de Jean-Marc Ayrault (ministre des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international) (2016-17)
• Ambassadeur au Japon (à partir de juin 2017)

Décorations

• Chevalier de l’ordre national du Mérite (14 novembre 2011)
• Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (13 juillet 2019)

The COVID-19 pandemic has shocked all the major economies including Japan. Although the number of deaths associated with COVID-19 is not as large as those in the US and many countries in Europe and the economic damage also seems to be relatively small, Japan has recorded unprecedented negative economic growth for the second quarter of 2020. The talk looks at the impacts of COVID-19 on the Japanese economy, reviews the policy responses so far, and speculates on the future of the Japanese economy.

Profile:

Takeo Hoshi is professor at the Graduate school of economics at University of Tokyo. Until August 2019 he was Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Professor of Finance (by courtesy) at the Graduate School of Business, and Director of the Japan Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), all at Stanford University. Before he joined Stanford in 2012, he was Pacific Economic Cooperation Professor in International Economic Relations at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he conducted research and taught since 1988. Hoshi is also Visiting Scholar at the Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER), and Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER). His main research interest includes corporate finance, banking, monetary policy and the Japanese economy.

Moderator: Adrienne SALA (FRIJ-MFJ)
Organization: IFRJ-MFJ
Co-organization: CCIFJ France Japon
Support: Ambassade de France au Japon

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The Olympic Games of Tokyo 2020 (now 2021), could it be an urban laboratory for transport experiments? The Games of 1964 have a very positive image in the Japanese imagination. The Japanese government had shown its technological skills by building the Shinkansen and the major urban highways of Tokyo. The 2020 edition is much less ambitious in terms of construction: renovation of the 1964 venues, reconstruction of the Olympic stadium, construction of the Olympic village and the media centre. These last elements are located on the bay of Tokyo, in the waterfront district at the heart of the urban renaissance policies promoted by successive governments since the 2000s.
In order to connect the Olympic venues, the central government and the metropolitan authorities are focusing on the construction of additional urban highways and bridges on Tokyo Bay, and on the establishment of a hydrogen-powered High-Service Bus line to reach the village, as well as on vehicles for individual or collective use provided by the IOC's major partner: Toyota.
The announced postponement of the Games to 2021 creates a completely new research field: the Olympic and Paralympic Games are almost ready, but postponed by one year. This postponement not only has financial consequences for the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese authorities, but also challenges some of the experiments planned in this context, particularly with regard to urban mobility. From the policy of encouraging companies to shift the working hours of their employees, the experiments with hydrogen and/or autonomous vehicles, as well as the presentations of various types of robots, the observation of Tokyo during the summer and autumn of 2020 will make it possible to clearly distinguish between what the organizers wanted to set up in a sustainable way for the city, and what is a matter of simple communication.
This postponement changes everything, and we will try to understand the consequences for the organizers, the experiments and the urban policies on the horizon of the probable Tokyo 2021 Games.

Profile:
Alexandre Faure (EHESS, FFJ) is a postdoctoral fellow at FFJ and coordinates the research axis: "Rethinking Global Cities: Global Issues and Local Practices". He is also in charge of coordinating the editorial board of FFJ. Alexandre Faure integrated EHESS to study the relationship between political time and the temporalities of urban planning on different cases of study (renovation of the Halles de Chambéry – french Alps, Urban Renovation Master Plan in the suburb of Paris) and wrote his thesis with a doctoral contract at the Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH) under the direction of Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier. His thesis which also focused on political and urban time, aimed at explaining the phenomenon of metropolisation in the parisian region in a multidisciplinary approach, mixing speeches, the study of urban planning documents and geopolitics of actors.
Alexandre Faure, « Financer un projet hors-norme : le nouveau réseau de métro du Grand Paris (2008-2018) », Belgeo [En ligne], 4 | 2019, mis en ligne le 04 février 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/36271

Moderator: Adrienne SALA (IFRJ-MFJ)
Organization: IFRJ-MFJ