JFTC Essay Competition 2009
Matthew Stavros
JFTC is sponsoring JFTC Essay Competition 2009 to encourage students,
young researchers and business people to express their opinions on
matters of national and international importance.
One Grand Prize of 1,000,000 yen and three Prizes for Excellence of
200,000 yen each will be awarded. In addition, the award-winners will
be provided with a round trip air-ticket to Tokyo, Japan to attend the
award ceremony to be held on January 8, 2010.
The subject of the essay is
"How Should Global Capitalism be Corrected – Japan’s Role and Mission"
With the emergence of the worldwide financial crisis triggered by the
subprime mortgage problem, the world economy is suffering from an
unprecedented slump which is said to occur but once in 100 years. This
leads us to believe there must be some serious defects in
Anglo-American style financial capitalism. If that is indeed the case,
finding the way to correct and reform the system must be an urgent
necessity.
With these observations in mind, The Japan Foreign Trade Council
(JFTC) decided to adopt “How Should Global Capitalism be Corrected –
Japan’s Role and Mission” as the theme of this year’s JFTC Essay
Competition. JFTC welcomes your active participation in the
competition. We would appreciate it if your essay includes creative
and insightful ideas about what Japan, Japanese corporations including
Japanese Shosha (general trading companies) can and should do toward
realizing your vision.
http://www.jftc.or.jp/english/discourse/index.html
Matthew Stavros
www.mstavros.com
www.pmjs.org
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