3 pm                  Welcome remarks

Session 1          New Perspectives on Japanese Law
                          Chair: Lena Foljanty (University of Vienna, Austria)

3:30 pm            Yoshiharu Matsuura (Nagoya University, Japan): Japanese ODA and legal technical assistance in Vietnam 

4:00 pm            Taro Morinaga (Former Prosecutor, former Director of the International Cooperation Department, Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice and former Director of the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), Japan): The role of law in Japan’s International Cooperation 

4:30 pm            Ralf Michaels (MPI Hamburg, Germany): Decolonial Comparative Law: What’s in it for Asia/Japan?

5:00 pm           Discussion

5:45 pm            Group picture

6:00 pm            Reception

Evening             Keynote

6:30 pm            Harald Baum (MPI Hamburg, Germany) / Moritz Bälz (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany): 40 Years of Research on Japanese Law at the MPI

Session 2         Japanese Law Studies in Asia (Part I)
                         Chair: Béatrice Jaluzot (Lyon Institute for East Asian Studies, France)

9:00 am            Alan Koh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): Singapore

9:30 am            Hao-Yun Chen (National Taiwan University): Taiwan

10.00 am          Discussion

10:30 am         Coffee break

11:00 am          Hongqian Zhou (East China University of Political Science and Law, PRC): PRC

11:30 am          Chul Kwon (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea): South Korea

12:00 pm          Discussion 

12:30 pm          Lunch break

Session 3         Japanese Law Studies in Asia (Part II)
                         Chair: Nobumichi Teramura (University of Brunei Darussalam)

1:30 pm            Apipong Sarntikasem (Judge in the Research Division of the Court of Appeal for Specialized Cases (Juvenile and Family Case Division), Thailand): Thailand

2:00 pm            Socheata Sao (Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), Cambodia): Cambodia 

2:30 pm           Discussion

3:00 pm            Coffee break

3:30 pm            Rina Shahrullah (Batam International University, Indonesia): Indonesia

4:00 pm            Khakimov Akhadjon (Tashkent State University of Law, Uzbekistan): Central Asia (and Mongolia)

4:30 pm            Discussion

Session 4          Asian Law(s) in Japan
                           Chair: Mai Ishikawa (Tohoku University, Japan)

9:00 am            Souichirou Kozuka (Gakushuin University, Japan): Commercial Law

9:30 am            Tatsuya Ota (Keio University, Japan): criminal law/criminology/criminal justice 

10:00 am          Discussion

10:30 am          Coffee break

11:00 am          Hiroo Sono (Hokkaido University, Japan): The Role of Japan at UNCITRAL and AALCO

11:30 am          Naoko Kano (Keio University, Japan): Asian Law in Statutory Reform 

12:00 pm          Discussion

12:30 pm          Concluding remarks