The Japanese Economic Association (JEA) is the professional body of Japanese

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...

s. The Japanese Economic Association is the largest, with more than 3,000 members, among academic economic associations in Japan. The Association is also one of the oldest, founded in 1934. The Association was reorganized as the Theoretical Economic Association and the Japanese Econometric Association. These two Associations were reunited as the Japan Association of Economics and Econometrics in 1968. The original name of the Association was restored in 1997. Its current president is Hideshi Itoh. It publishes the '' Japanese Economic Review''. The Association created an official prize, the Nakahara Prize, for the first time in 1995, named after its sponsor Nobuyuki Nakahara. The aim of the prize is honoring and encouraging young (under 45 years) economists to publish internationally-recognised researches.

Founding members

Founding members of JEA included Yasuma Takada, Ichiro Nakayama, Shinzo Koizumi, and Seiichiro Takahashi.

Past and current presidents

* Ichiro Nakayama, 1968-1970 *

Takuma Yasui was a Japanese economist known for his contributions to mathematical economics. In particular, he is recognized as one of the first economists to utilize Lyapunov stability Various types of stability may be discussed for the solutions of dif ...

, 1970-1971 * Fukukane Nikaido, 1978-1979 *

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, 1979-1980 * Kenichi Miyazawa, 1981-1982 *

Takashi Negishi is a Japanese neo- Walrasian economist. Career Negishi graduated Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo in 1956 and received a PhD in Economics from University of Tokyo in 1963. Contributions Negishi's research has provided a wide range of e ...

, 1985-1986 * Syoujiro Fujino, 1986-1987 * Masahiro Tatemoto, 1987-1988 * Yoichi Shinkai, 1988-1989 *

Hirofumi Uzawa was a Japanese economist. Biography Uzawa was born on July 21, 1928 in Yonago, Tottori to a farming family. He attended the Tokyo First Middle School (currently the Hibiya High School ) and the First Higher School, Japan (now the University ...

, 1989-1990 * Shinji Moriguchi, 1990-1991 * Akihiro Amano, 1992-1993 *

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, 1994-1995 *

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, 1995-1996 * Keimei Kaizuka, 1996-1997 * Michio Hatanaka, 1997-1998 * Michihiro Oyama, 1998-1999 * Kotaro Suzumura, 1999-2000 * Kazuo Nishimura, 2000-2001 * Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, 2001-2002 * Hiroshi Yoshikawa, 2002-2003 * Tatsuo Hatta, 2003-2004 *

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, 2004-2005 * Toshiaki Tachibanaki, 2005-2006 * Kimio Morimune, 2006-2007 * Takenori Inoki, 2007-2008 * Makoto Yano, 2008-2009 *

Masahisa Fujita is a Japanese economist who has studied regional science and Urban economics and International Trade, Spatial Economy ( New Economic Geography). He is a professor at Konan University and an adjunct professor at Institute of Economic Research, ...

, 2009-2010 * Toshihiro Ihori, 2010-2011 * Kazuo Ueda, 2011-2012 * Yoshio Higuchi, 2012-2013 * Yuzo Honda, 2013-2014 * Akira Okada, 2014-2015 * Kazuo Mino, 2015-2016 *

Akihiko Matsui is a Japanese video game developer and battle designer working for Square Enix. He was one of the directors for ''Chrono Trigger'' and worked on several battle systems for the ''Final Fantasy'' series. Career After finishing his work on ''Romanci ...

, 2016-2017 *

Michihiro Kandori is a Japanese economist. He is a professor at the University of Tokyo. Career He received a B.A. from University of Tokyo in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1989. Recognition * 1999: Fellow, Econometric Society * 2002: Japanese ...

, 2017-2018 *

Fumio Hayashi is a Japanese economist. He is a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. Hayashi received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tokyo and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1980. He has taugh ...

, 2018- 2019 * Hidehiko Ichimura, 2019- 2020 * Fumio Ohtake, 2020-2021 * Masao Ogaki, 2021-May 28,2022 * Hideshi Itoh, May 28,2022–present

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