By MJesper Koll, Chief Economist & Managing Director, Meryll Lynch Japan

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D+T: Thursday 1 June  2000, 1400-1600

PLACE: To Be Confirmed EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, Hanzomon

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"A New Japan - Image and reality"



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Japan's economy is in the midst of fundamental change.  What are the driving
forces? Who are the winners? Who the loosers? Does Japan have a realistic
chance of catching up with other superpowers and growing nations and develop
a new competitive edge?

What are the obstacles for a renewed growth? Find out during this Johogen
seminar why Japan does have a good chance of entering a new golden age.



 SPEAKER:

Jesper Koll has been researching the Japanese economy since becoming a
resident of Japan in 1986. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in August 1999, he
was a Managing Director of Tiger Management L.L.C. and before he was the
chief economist and head of economic and market research for J.P.Morgan in
Tokyo. Mr. Koll has been serving on several Japanese government advisory
councils, including the MITI committee on "Big Bang 2001 - Japan's financial
system reform". Recently, he was a member of the Economic Planning Agency
council that deliberates policy proposals to counter deflation. For the
first two years of his stay in Japan, Mr Koll was a research fellow at the
Kyoto University Economic Research Center and the Tokyo University Institute
for Social Sciences. After that, Mr.Koll served as an aide to a Japanese
Member of Parliament for two years. Before his Japan specialization, he
worked as an assistant economist for the O.E.C.D. in Paris. He holds a
Masters degree from The Johns Hopkins University, SAIS. He graduated from
the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific in 1980. He is a native of
Germany and was born in 1961.
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