The Japan Futures Initiative (JFI) is a network of scholars and practitioners dedicated to the promotion of the policy-relevant social scientific study of Japan, with an eye toward better understanding challenges that Japan, Canada, and other OECD countries face in the future, and to the identification of opportunities to enhance Canada-Japan cooperation.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

David A. Welch: Chair of Global Security at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) & Director of Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo

Kimie Hara: Professor, Renison Research Professor & Director, East Asian Studies, Renison University College, University of Waterloo

Masato Kimura: Director, Research Department, Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Seung Hyok Lee: JFI Research Associate & Adjunct Assistant Professor, Renison University College, University of Waterloo

LOCATION/CONTACT

67 Erb Street West, 2nd Floor, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 6C2 Canada   (Inside the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) & Balsillie School of International Affairs Building)

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