SOAS Department of Economics Hosted the Seventh Annual Conference of the Japan Economy Network
The Japan Economy Network returns to SOAS for its annual conference, a decade after its founding at a workshop at SOAS.
The SOAS Department of Economics hosted the Seventh Annual Conference of the Japan Economy Network on 28-29 August 2025. The conference programme comprised eight sessions with 18 papers selected through an open call for papers. It also featured a special panel discussion on monetary policy challenges.
Professor Jenny Corbett, a renowned scholar based at the University of Oxford and Australian National University, provided a thought-provoking keynote speech by on “Japan’s Economy: Success or Failure?”. The conference received financial support from the SOAS Japan Research Centre.
This year’s conference marked the tenth anniversary of the JEN and a return to London a decade after the network was established during a workshop on “Economic Stagnation and Deflation: Challenges for Japan in Comparative Perspective” hosted by the SOAS Department of Economics in July 2015.
The goal of JEN is to promote research on the Japanese economy and foster exchange between researchers with an active research interest in the Japanese economy. The JEN is an informal network open to researchers from academia, think tanks, international organisations, central banks, governments, NGOs and the private sector.
Previous annual JEN conferences were hosted by Hitotsubashi University, Columbia Business School, the Bank of Japan, the University of Zurich, the Asian Development Bank Institute, and the Japanese-German Center Berlin. Esteemed keynote speakers included Masaaki Shirakawa, Nobuko Nagase, Takatoshi Ito, Naoyuki Yoshino, Janet Hunter, Sayuri Shirai and Norihiro Takahashi.
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