Dear Colleagues,

 

The Society for the History 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, Shandon province on September 15, 2017.

(There will be no additional participants from the SHJET.)

 

Here is my preliminary translation of the project and presentation themes. 

 

The Shandon 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 "Governing the World and Saving the People"'

 

Preliminary 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 Kashiwa Yusuke'

'The Economic Thought of a Chinese Scholar 

(Shu Shoen-I am sorry that I do not know the Chinese pinyin.)'

 

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