RIETI Policy Symposium

Japan's Pension System -Evaluating the 2004 Reform and Establishing Clear Principles for Further Reforms- (Handouts)

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  • Date and Time:
    December 15, 2005; 9:30-17:45
    December 16, 2005; 9:15-11:50
  • Venue: Golden Room, 11th Floor, Keidanren Kaikan (1-9-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
  • Japanese / English (with simultaneous interpretation)

    • Handouts

    Conference Chair:
    NAKATA Daigo (Fellow, RIETI)
    Opening Remarks:
    YOSHITOMI Masaru (President and CRO, RIETI)
    Session 1: "Evaluating the 2004 Reform and Identifying the Remaining Issues"
    Session Chair:
    NOGUCHI Haruko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Science, Toyo Eiwa University)
    Presentation:
    "The Basic Questions on the 2004 Pension Reforms in Japan"
    KOSHIRO Kazutoshi (Emeritus Professor, Yokohama National University / Vice-Chair of the Pension Council of the Social Security Deliberation Council, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (2002-2004))
    Presentation [PDF:148KB] / Reference (in Japanese) [PDF:32KB]
    Comments:
    Olivia S. MITCHELL (Professor of Insurance & Risk Management, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.)
    Presentation [PDF:160KB]
    Ole SETTERGREN (Director of the Department of Pensions, Swedish Social Insurance Agency, Sweden)
    Presentation [PDF:32KB]
    John PIGGOTT (Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia)
    Presentation (Reference) [PDF:1.8MB]
    Comments:
    KOSHIRO Kazutoshi (Emeritus Professor, Yokohama National University / Vice-Chair of the Pension Council of the Social Security Deliberation Council, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (2002-2004))
    Presentation1 [PDF:192KB] / Reference1 (in Japanese) [PDF:148KB]
    Presentation2 [PDF:40KB] / Reference2 (in Japanese) [PDF:36KB]
    Session 2: "Establishing Clear Principles to Promote Further Pension Reforms in Japan"
    Session Chair:
    KUROSAWA Masako (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
    Presentation:
    "Enhancing the Financial Sustainability on a Basis of Clear Principles"
    FUKAO Mitsuhiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)
    KANEKO Yoshihiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Department of Empirical Social Security Research, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)
    Paper (in Japanese) [PDF:532KB]
    Presentation [PDF:356KB]
    Presentation (in Japanese) [PDF:396KB]
    Comments:
    Olivia S. MITCHELL (Professor of Insurance & Risk Management, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.)
    Presentation [PDF:564KB]
    Ole SETTERGREN (Director of the Department of Pensions, Swedish Social Insurance Agency, Sweden)
    Presentation [PDF:40KB]
    Session 3: "Learning from Pension Reforms in Foreign Countries"
    Session Chair:
    SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    Presentation:
    "Learning from Pension Reforms in Foreign Countries - Sweden"
    Ole SETTERGREN (Director of the Department of Pensions, Swedish Social Insurance Agency, Sweden)
    Presentation [PDF:148KB]
    Reference [PDF:168KB]
    Comments:
    YAMAZAKI Nobuhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Actuarial Affairs Division, Pension Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW))
    John PIGGOTT (Professor, The University of New South Wales, Australia)
    Presentation [PDF:1.0MB]
    Session 4: "Impact of the 2004 Reform on Employment and the Reality of the Japanese Elderly"
    Session Chair:
    KANEKO Yoshihiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Department of Empirical Social Security Research, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)
    Presentation:
    "What Further Reforms of the Pension System Can Promote the Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Japan?" (Tentative)
    HIGUCHI Yoshio (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)
    KUROSAWA Masako (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
    Comments:
    OHASHI Isao (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
    Presentation (in Japanese) [PDF:1.5MB]
    Presentation:
    "The Reality of the Elderly Viewed from Preliminary Data"
    ICHIMURA Hidehiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor of Graduate School in Economics, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)
    SHIMIZUTANI Satoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    NOGUCHI Haruko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Science, Toyo Eiwa University)
    Presentation [PDF:108KB]
    Comments:
    TAKEISHI Emiko (Head Senior Analyst, Social Development Research Group, NLI Research Institute)
    Olivia S. MITCHELL (Professor of Insurance & Risk Management, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.)
    Presentation [PDF:396KB]
    Recapitulative Panel Discussion: "Establishing New Principles for Further Reforms of the Japanese Pension System"
    Session Chair:
    YOSHITOMI Masaru (President and CRO, RIETI)
    Presentation (Discussion Issues) (in Japanese) [PDF:40KB]
    Presentation (Data) (in Japanese) [PDF:140KB]
    Panel Discussion:
    KANEKO Yoshihiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Department of Empirical Social Security Research, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research)
    TACHIBANAKI Toshiaki (Faculty Fellow and Research Counselor, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University)
    Presentation (in Japanese) [PDF:204KB]
    ASO Yoshibumi (Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University)
    Presentation [PDF:304KB]
    Olivia S. MITCHELL (Professor, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.)
    Presentation [PDF:552KB]
    YAMAZAKI Nobuhiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Actuarial Affairs Division, Pension Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW))
    Closing Remarks:
    OIKAWA Kozo (Chairman, RIETI)
    * The agenda is subject to change.