Former Japanese Finance Official to Speak at JHU SAIS

Eisuke Sakakibara, former vice minister in the Japanese Ministry of Finance, will speak at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) on Wednesday, 09/12 at 5:30 p.m.

His lecture topic will be "Structural Reforms Amid Recession," a timely issue as Prime Minister Koizumi is designing his government's plan for revitalizing the Japanese economy.

Sakakibara is currently the director of the Global Security Research Center at Keio University in Tokyo and a visiting scholar at SAIS. As vice finance minister, he served as Japan's leading official dealing with the country's international financial affairs during the 1990s.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Kenney Auditorium located on the first floor of the school's Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

For more information, contact Felisa Klubes in the SAIS Public Affairs Office at (202) 663-5626 or [email protected].