The Foreign Scholar Lecture Series and International Workshops are organized to invite overseas researchers in the fields of population and social security. These seminars and workshops are open to the public. Recent ones include a lecture on population changes in India co-organized with the Asian Population Association, a lecture on the use of the IPUMS ecosystem that invited an expert from the IPUMS Center for Data Integration, University of Minnesota, and an international symposium on the foreign worker policy of Japan co-organized with the OECD.

We are engaged in cooperative research based on a memorandum of understanding with the International Institute for Population Sciences, India (IIPS), the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, and the Research Institute of Labor and Social Protection, Mongolia (RILSP), while promoting information exchanges and joint research with international organizations such as the OECD, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), along with universities and research institutes in their respective countries. We also participate in international scientific conferences on population and social security, and issue research reports.

We host delegations and study tour groups from around the world and outline the current situation of population and social security in Japan for them. Since FY2022, when international travel restrictions due to the spread of COVID-19 were eased, we received visitors from the Ministry of Health and Welfare of South Korea and the Institute of Japanese Studies, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as well as visits from countries such as Vietnam, Germany, the USA, the UK, Sweden, Norway, and others.

We are engaged in ongoing cooperation about issues on a global scale such as population problems and international social insurance issues through the Commission on Population and Development held at the UN headquarters, and participation in various meetings held at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). We are also offering expertise and data on population and social security in Japan through participation in expert meetings held by the OECD.