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Professor Prakash is a distinguished scholar of the history of the Dutch East India Company and the Indian ocean trade in the early modern period, including intra-Asian trade centring around Southeast Asian and Japan. He is also an active member of GEHN (Global Economic History Network), and in this presentation is expected to speak to the themes and issues debated among the members of that group.

He is visiting Tokyo to participate in a pre-conference for a session at the International Economic History Congress at Helsinki this summer, and has kindly agreed to come down to Kyoto for a seminar.

Mr. Endy M. Bayuni is a journalist of the Jakarta Post from 1983 and became the chief editor of the Jakarta post in 2004. He has experienced the authoritarian regime and the democratized and decentralized regime as a journalist.

He would talk about the positively and negatively growing role of mass media in the democratized Indonesia, comparing with the castrated role of the media in the authoritarian Indonesia.

Professor U Sai Aung Tun is Vice Chairman of Myanmar Historical Commission, and a distinguished member of the Universities Historical Research Center at Yangon University. He is well known for the study of Shan history. We are happy to welcome him during his short trip to Japan, and to hear about his latest works on Shan studies.