As Japan's first totally private, nonprofit and completely independent think tank, the Research Division of The Tokyo Foundation is dedicated to a broad range of policy researches and to the presentation of qualified policy recommendations based on these studies.

　As part of our endeavor to contribute to Japanese policy studies, we publish a Japanese-language newsletter called Intellectual Cabinet twice a month based on the discussions at the "Intellectual Cabinet Policy Conference " a forum of high-level policy researchers. The newsletter aims to help create a pluralistic policy process in Japan by providing sound and constructive policy debate and proposing original policy initiatives.

　Intellectual Cabinet 2001 is our second English-language digest of the newsletter, compiled with some of the key issues discussed in the newsletter during the year.

　It is our sincere hope that this booklet could introduce the latest policy debate in Japan to a wide audience in the world and help foster global policy dialogue on various issues.

　

　

ASAMI, Yasushi

Associate Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo

　

FUNABASHl, Yoichi

Chief Diplomatic Correspondent and Columnist, Asahi Shimbun

　

HONMA, Masaaki

Professor of Econcmics, Osaka University

　

IKEO, Kazuhito

Professor of Economics, Keio University

　

ITO, Motoshige

Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo

　

KITAOKA, Shin'ichi

Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo

　

KOJIMA, Akira

Chief Editorial Writer, Nihon Keizai Shimbun

　

KOSAI, Yutaka

Chairman, Japan Center for Economic Research

　

NISHIMURA, Kiyohiko

Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo

　

OTA, Hiroko

Professor, National Graduate Institute for

Policy Studies

　

SAKAIKBARA, Kiyonori

Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University

　

SEIKE, Atsushi

Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University

　

SHIMADA, Haruo

P rof essor, Departmenf of Economics, Keio University

　

SHINOHARA, Soichi

Professor, Department of Economics, Doshisha University

　

TAMURA, Jiro

Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University

　

TANAKA, Akihiko

Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, and Graduate

School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo

　

URATA, Shujiro

Professor of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Waseda University

　

WAKASUGI, Ryuhei

Professor and Dean, Department of Economics, Yokohama National University

　

YAMADA, Atsushi

Journalist

　

YOSHIDA, Kazuo

Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

　

−as of March 2002