The Asia Roundtable begins in Seoul, updates on the WEF blog
Samantha and Rebecca are in Seoul and blog on the World Economic Forum weblog we started earlier this year in Warsaw. Here is an update on Japan: Japan's recovery: where next?
At a press conference before the Roundtable began, Heizo Takenaka, Japan's Minister of State for Financial Services, expressed optimism that Japan's economic recovery can continue. However he also said that further agressive reforms are necessary if Japan is to pull itself fully and completely out of its decade-long economic slump. He said that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is fully committed to such aggressive reform.
Joi talks about it here.