Reform and Restructuring in Corporate and Banking Sectors in Southeast Asian Countries after the Currency Crisis

1)危机后东南亚华侨企业2)东南亚国家与中国经济关系的变化3)21世纪初的东盟经济合作4)日本对东南亚国家和中国的直接投资比较研究5)危机后日本对东亚的自贸协定战略我们与厦门大学东南亚研究所的工作人员合作开展了这些研究。我们的研究期限为三年，因此，在头两年(2002-2003年)，我们在东南亚国家进行了实地研究工作，重点是危机后这些国家的企业和银行部门的改革和重组。2002年，我们对马来西亚、新加坡和印度尼西亚的经济情况进行了调查。在这次调查的基础上，我们在厦门大学举办了一次研讨会。2003年，我们还调查了泰国、菲律宾和越南的经济情况。我们在立命馆大学也举办了一次关于这一实地研究的研讨会，有必要总结我们的研究活动的结果。因此，我们计划在2004年，也就是我们研究学期的最后一年，举办一次国际研讨会。我们邀请了这一领域最杰出的学者。由于我们对1997-1998年金融危机后东南亚国家企业和银行业的改革和重组有了大量的信息，所以我们比较关注危机后最重要的问题之一--危机后的东亚地区合作。我们的研讨会之所以成功，是因为我们讨论了如何在21世纪的头10年建立“东亚共同体”的条件。我们计划在不久的将来出版一本关于它的书。

Our main purposes of this research projects are following five topics.1) Overseas Chinese Enterprises in Southeast Asia after the Crisis2) Changing Economic Relations between Southeast Asian Countries and China3) The ASEAN Economic Cooperation in the beginning of Twenty-First Century4) Comparative Studies of Japanese Direct Investment into Southeast Asian Countries and China5) The Japanese FTA Strategy toward the East Asia after the CrisisWe embarked on these researches with collaboration of staffs at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University, China.As our research term was three years, so in the first two years (2002-2003) we conducted field research works in Southeast Asian countries focusing reform and restructuring in corporate and banking sectors in these countries after the Crisis. In 2002, we investigated economic situation in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. We had a workshop at Xiamen University on the basis of this investigation. In 2003, we also investigated economic situation in Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. We had, too, a workshop at Ritsumeikan University on this field research.It was necessary to summarize the results of our research activity. Thus, we planned an international symposium in 2004 which was the last year of our research term. We invited most distinguished scholars in this sphere. As we have had a lot of information about reform and restructuring in corporate and banking sectors in Southeast Asian countries after the Currency Crisis of 1997-1998, so we rather focused on one of the most important issue after the Crisis, namely regional cooperation in East Asia after the Crisis.Our symposium was so successful because we tackled with the conditions how to build "The East Asian Community" in the first decade of the 21 century. We have a plan to publish a book of it in the near future.