The Foreign Scholar Lecture Series and International Workshops are organized to invite internationally renowned researchers in the fields of population and social security. These seminars and workshops are held in the IPSS conference room and are open to the public. In FY2015-FY2016, special lectures were given on the subjects of population bonuses, population declines, population trends in North and South Korea, mathematical demographics, work and family balance, and longevity. International workshops with East Asian countries were also conducted.

We are engaged in cooperative research based on a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), and the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China, while we promote information exchanges and joint research with international organizations such as the OECD, World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank, UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), along with universities and research institutes in their respective countries. We also participate in international scientific conferences on population and social security, and issue reports.

We receive delegations and study tour groups from around the world and outline the current situation of population and social security in Japan for them. In FY2015-FY2016, through the JENESYS Japanese government exchange program and others, we received visits from groups from around the world, and from global population development delegations from countries such as China, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan, USA, Australia, the UK, Denmark, and others.

We are engaged in ongoing cooperation about issues on a global scale such as population problems and the building of an international social security system 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 short-term dispatches to OECD headquarters and participation in expert meeting held by the OECD.