On July 31 2013, Professor Mo Jihong, Deputy Director of CASS Institute, and Professor Xiong Qiuhong, Head of the Procedural Law Department of the Institute, met and held a talk with Mr. Yoshida Jumpei, the outgoing First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Beijing and his successor, Mr. Daisuke Kunii.

During the meeting, Professor Mo introduced to the Japanese guests the historical development, the organizational structure, and the basic functions of the CASS Law Institute as well as the current situation of implementation by the Institute of the CASS strategies of “Three-orientations” and “Strengthening the CASS by Strengthening Scientific Research, Talents Cultivation and Management”. Professor Mo pointed out that, the CASS Law Institute, as a think tank of the Chinese Government, has the important missions of participating in state legislation, carrying out research on major legal issues, providing advanced legal education and training, and promoting legal cooperation and exchange with foreign countries. He reviewed the cooperation and exchange programs between CASS Law Institute and various Japanese universities, including Waseda University, University of Tokyo, and Tohoku University, and recalled his own personal experience of visiting University of Tokyo as a visiting scholar in his early years and his long-term academic exchange and friendship with Professor Koji Tonami of Waseda University.

Professor Mo held that, the exchange between Chinese and Japanese legal scholars has a unique advantage of being based on a platform of common legal thinking and ideas of a “legal community”. He spoke highly of the contributions made by Mr. Yoshida Jumpei in the past six years in promoting the legal exchange between Japan and China and put forward three concrete suggestions on further developing the cooperation between the CASS Law and Japanese research institutions to Mr. Daisuke Kunii, Mr. Jumpei’s successor.

Mr. Jumpei and Mr. Kunii thanked Professor Mo and Professor Xiong for their warm reception. Mr. Jumpei said that, as an old friend of the CASS Law Institute, he cherished very much his friendship with scholars of the Institute and that, compared with six years ago, great progress had been made in the legal exchange between Japan and China. Mr. Kunii said that the Japanese Embassy plays a bridging role between the CASS Law Institute and Japanese legal research institutions and that he and his colleagues at the Embassy would make further efforts in promoting the mutual understand between and common progress of the Japanese and Chinese law circles.