Awards JFTC Essay Competition 2008
December 15, 2009
Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc. sponsors of the "JFTC Essay Competition 2009" are very pleased to announce that we received a total of 146 submissions from 32 different nationalities for the competition this year.
After a strict screening of all the essays, the three submissions below have been selected as the winners of the competition in 2009.
We would like to express our congratulations to the winners and thank all the participants for taking part.
Selection Committee:
Chair: Dr. Iwao NAKATANI, Director of Research,
  Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd. and
Professor, Dean, Renaissance Center, Tama University
Vice Chair: Professor Yoko WAKE , Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University
Vice Chair:   Mr. Kazuo MORI, Senior and Editorial Writer, NIKKEI INC.
Remarks by Selection Committee Chairman

Grand Prize of 1 million yen
"The Correction of Global Capitalism and Japan's Mission -
    Toward Overcoming the Two Crises Caused by the Economic Crisis
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    Mr. Kiyoshi MIURA (Japan, age30) summary full   
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Prize for Excellence of 200,000 yen
"Restoring Stakeholder Trust - Lessons from Japan's Consensus Capitalism "
    Mr. Michal OLEWNIK (Poland, age 31)
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"A Prescription for Global Capitalism - Can Japan Revive Economic Chivalry?"
    Mr. Hajime MOTEGI (Japan, age 37)
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[Essay requirements]
Subject: "How Should Global Capitalism be Corrected – Japan’s Role and Mission"
Length : No more than 4,000 words(in English)or 10,000 characters(in Japanese)
Language: English or Japanese
Deadline : September 30, 2009

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