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.
⇒Winner’s Voice of the "JFTC Essay Competition 2008"

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.

Essays may be submitted by anyone regardless of nationality or age. Essays shall be type-written
either in English or Japanese, no more than 4,000 words(in English) and 10,000 characters(in
Japanese), including charts and tables. Each participant can submit one essay only. In your essay
a) title of the essay, b) summary of the essay (approx. 400 words) should be provided on top of
the essay.
Essays must be submitted by e-mail or air/sea-mail no later than Sept. 30, 2009, and shall not be
returned.
Essays must be submitted in the specified format sheet down-loaded from our Web site.
Unless both essay title and summary are presented, such application shall be deemed
incomplete and not be evaluated.
JFTC Essay Competition 2009/ format sheet

Award-winners shall be publicly announced on December 15, 2009 on our Web site and be
notified by e-mail, telephone or mail. Award-winning essays and the names of authors shall be
posted on our Web site, "JFTC Monthly" and "JFTC News" etc.
All submissions must be original. No previously published materials shall be accepted. All rights
to the award-winning essays shall be the exclusive property of JFTC.

Chair: Dr. Iwao Nakatani,Director of Research, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting
Co., Ltd.and Professor, Dean, Renaissance Center, Tama
University
Vice Chairs: Professor Yoko Wake, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University
Mr. Kazuo Mori, Senior and Editorial Writer, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.

Japan Foreign Trade Council, Inc.

Public Relations Group
6th Floor, World Trade Center Building,
2-4-1, Hamamatsu-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-6106, Japan
Tel: +81-3-3435-5964 E-mail: kouhou@jftc.or.jp

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