Gov't plans to pick thin tank adviser Kosai as tax panel chief TOKYO - The government plans to pick Yutaka Kosai, senior adviser of the Japan Center for Economic Research, as chairman of the government's tax panel, following the resignation last week of Masaaki Homma, government sources said Tuesday.
This is the fourth volume resulting from a collaboration between the NBER and the Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER); its thirteen papers feature analyses of important features of employment practices and fringe benefit systems in Japan and the United States.
[GRAPH OMITTED] [GRAPH OMITTED] [GRAPH OMITTED] Overall Ranking Ranking Country Change since 1995 1 US [up] 3 2 Iceland -- 3 Norway -- 4 Sweden [up] 1 5 Singapore [up] 6 14 Japan [down] 3 Source: Japan Center for Economic Research
Five of the nine think tanks, including Mitsubishi Research Institute, Japan Center for Economic Research and Japan Research Institute, projected a fall on a nominal basis in the quarter, partly due to a rise in the cost of importing crude oil.
Economists at the Japan Center for Economic Research, a top think tank, forecast an economic contraction for the next two fiscal years, taking the economy out to March 2000.
Johnston plans to attend an economic conference jointly organized by the OECD and private think tank Japan Center for Economic Research on July 20 in Tokyo, the ministry said.
The private-sector experts also include Yutaka Kosai, head of the Japan Center for Economic Research, Akio Okuyama, head of the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Nobuyuki Nakahara, a former Bank of Japan (BOJ) Policy Board member, and Kyoto University Professor Kazuo Yoshida.
Kunio Ito, a professor at Hitotsubashi University's Graduate School of Commerce, Yutaka Kosai, chairman of the Japan Center for Economic Research, Kosuke Nakahira, vice chairman of the Institute for International Economic Studies, and Mochio Umeda, president of MUSE Associates.
