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May/June 2011 Issue

May/June 2011 Issue

Asian Dynamism

Publisher's Note
The Web Revolution
By Noboru Hatakeyama
SPECIAL REPORT• Tohoku Earthquake & Tunami •
In the eye of the cyclone
By Régis ARNAUD (Correspondent in Japan for "Le Figaro" and "Challenges")
MESSAGE•Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami•
What Has Changed after March 11? What Has Remained Unchanged even after that?
By Naoyuki HARAOKA (Editor-in-chief, Japan SPOTLIGHT)
Cover Story • Asian Dynamism 1 • Web Revolution
1 An Assessment of the Potential of ICT & its Impact on Economic Growth in Asia
By Naoyuki HARAOKA
Cover Story • Asian Dynamism 1 • Web Revolution
2 Digital China on the Way
By Long KE (Senior fellow, Economic Research Center Fujitsu Research Institute)
Cover Story • Asian Dynamism 1 • Web Revolution
3 India: Information Revolution
By Sanjeev SINHA (President, Sun & Sands Advisors)
INTERVIEWS
1 Takumi Shibata, Deputy President & Chief Operating Officer of Nomura Holdings, Inc. & Nomura Securities Co. NOMURA: Globalizing Corporate Culture From Within
Interviewer: Jillian YORKE (Freelance translator, writer and editor)
INTERVIEWS
2 Kiyotaka Fujii, President of Better Place Japan & former president & CEO of Louis Vuitton's Japanese Subsidiary Keys to New Business Growth in Japan
Interviewer: Helen FUJIMOTO (Australian resident in Japan for 30 years, Speaking Circles facilitator)
Cover Story • Asian Dynamism 2 • Emerging China
1 Leading Asia's Rise: a Post-American Asia?
By Simon TAY (Chair of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs)
Cover Story • Asian Dynamism 2 • Emerging China
2 China-Japan Rivalry in Asia's Integration Process
By Claude MEYER (Author of"Chine ou Japon: quel leader pour l'Asie?)
Cover Story • Asian Dynamism 2 • Emerging China
3 Asia's Security Amid Shifting Power Balances
By Shahriman LOCKMAN (Analyst, the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia)
Cover Story • Asian Dynamism 2 • Emerging China
4 China's Ascendance as Second-largest Economy in the World Pondering Geopolitical Implications
By Victor TEO (Faculty member of the Department of Japanese Studies and faculty fellow, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong)
Cover Story • Asian Dynamism 2 • Emerging China
5 Rising China, Shifting Paradigms What Can the Asia-Pacific Region Do?
By Mignonne CHAN (Executive director of the Chinese Taipei APEC Study Center at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research)
SPECIAL ARTICLES
1 Ambassador's View TPP: A New Zealand Perspective
By Ian KENNEDY (New Zealand's Ambassador to Japan)
SPECIAL ARTICLES
2 The Japanese Political Economy under Transition
By Sota KATO (Professor, International University of Japan)
DIGITAL START
New Japan SPOTLIGHT Seeks to Achieve Better Global Governance Through Asia-Pacific Cooperation
By Naoyuki HARAOKA (Editor-in-chief, Japan SPOTLIGHT)
ECONOMIC INDICATORS FOR JAPAN
Charts May/June 2011

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