Dear Colleagues,

Here is a corrected announcement of the one-day academic
conference to be held in Shandong Province.

The Society for the History of Japanese of Economic Thought (SHJET)
at the annual General Assembly has approved the member participants
and their presentation tiles for the academic conference to be held
in Jinan, Shandong Province on September 15, 2017.
(There will be no additional participants from the SHJET.)

The Shandong Branch of the (Chinese) Association of Japanese Learning
and SHJET will co-organize the fifth High-end Forum on Japanese
Learning 'The Chinese-Japanese Economic Cooperation and Its Outlook
under the New Situation.'

(The Association of Japanese Learning has many Japanese language
instructors as members.)

Thirteen papers will be given in Japanese and two will be in Chinese.

Plenary session:
'Confucianism and Modernization in Japan'
'The Thought of "keisei saimin (Governing the World and Saving the
People)"'

Parallel or symposium sessions:
'On the Confucian Network in the Edo (Tokugawa) Era'
'The Economic Ethics of the Bushi (samurai warriors)'
'The Bushido and the Governance by the Bushi in the Early Modern
   Period: Soko Yamaga and his Contemporaries'
'The Conception of National Interest in the Late Edo Era'
'The Etymology and Semantic Changes of "keizai
   (Economy and Economics)" in China and Japan'
'The Managerial Philosophy of Entrepreneurs'
'Yukichi Fukuzawa on the Trade with China'
'Tameyuki Amano (1861-1938) and Modernization in Japan:
   International Trade, Invention and Technical Progress'
'The Chinese and Korean Agriculture as Seen by the Japanese Experts'
'How Japanese Economists Comprehended China:
   The Case of Yusuke Kashiwa'
'The Economic Thought of the Chinese Scholar Shu Shoen
   (or Zhu Shaowen—the both can be used.)'

Special lectures to be given to the students in the departments of
The Japanese language:
'The Support for Chinese Students in Japan by Eiichi Shibusawa
  (businessman)'
'The Economic Thought and Policy during the Reconstruction Period
after 1945'

Thank you for supporting our international project.

It seems me that the Japanese economic thinkers of early modern period
(who now receive attention by historians of economic thought) took
policy-oriented and empirical approaches to the understanding of
economic phenomena, and resorted to observation and the collection of
economic numbers (for taxation etc.).
It seems me that they made little utilization of Confucian theory.

Aiko Ikeo