• Philip Hanson (University of Birmingham)
  "Understanding Regional Patterns of Economic Change"
• Takamitsu Sawa (Kyoto University),
  "Policy Instruments to Combat Global Warming after the Kyoto Conference:How to Combine Kyoto Mechanisms, Regulatory Measures and Economic Measures"

• Tsuneo Akaha and Anna Vassilieva(Monterey Institute of International Studies),
  "Environmental Consciousness in Sakhalin: Background and Views on the Sakhalin Offshore Oil-Gas Development"
• Gennady Borovskoy (Sakhalin State University),
  "Popular Attitudes Towards Market Reform in Sakhalin"

  Discussants:	Shigeaki Hakamada (Aoyama Gakuin University)
  	Takashi Murakami(Hokkaido University)

• Antonina Nachetkina (Sakhalin Oblast Duma),
  
• Emma Wilson (Cambridge University),
  "Conflict or Compromise? Traditional Natural Resource Use and the Oil Industry in Northern Sakhalin"

  Discussants:	Shinko Ogihara (Chiba University)
  	Koichi Inoue (Hokkaido University)

• Victor Kalashnikov (Economic Research Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences),
  "Sakhalin Offshore Development and Energy Demand and Supply in the Russian Far East"
  
• Hiromitsu Kitagawa (Hokkaido University)
  "Energy Development and the Environmental Issues in the Yamal-Yenisey Area"

  Discussants:	Fumikazu Yoshida(Hokkaido University)
  	Akira Miyamoto(Osaka Gasu)

Session 5-1: Inter-Regional Flows of Financial Resources in Russia 9:30-12:00

• Evgeny Gavrilenkov (Higher School of Economics, Russia),
  "Regional Peculiarities in Russia and Inter-Regional Capital Flows"
  
• Nobuo Arai (Sapporo International University) and Andrei Belov (Fukui Prefectural University),
  "The Budget System of the Sakhalin Oblast"
  
• Victor Rudenko (Russian Academy of Sciences),
  "Economical and Legal Responses to the Demands of Modernization in the Ural Region"

  Discussants:

  Yoshiaki Nishimura (Hitotsubashi University) Shinichiro Tabata (Hokkaido University)

Session 5-2: Marine Pollution in the Okhotsk Sea 9:30-12:00

• Rick Steiner (University of Alaska),
  "Oil Spills: Lessons from Alaska for Sakhalin"
• Alexander Leonov (Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russia),
  "Changes of the Okhotsk Sea Ecosystem Owing to the Development of Oil and Gas Deposits on the Sakhalin Island Shelf: Assessment on the Literary"

  Discussants:

  Etsuo Yamamura (Hokkaido University) Vsevolod Peresypkin (Central Marine Research & Design Institute, Russia)

• Masanobu Nomura (Kyushu International University),
  "The Water Use and the Possibility of Water Charge in the Lower Reach of Ili River: The Case of Bereke Village"
  
• Yukio Sato (Hiroshima University, Emeritus),
  "Environment and Physical Condition of the Resident Population in the Semipalatinsk Area"

  Discussants:

  B. Islamov (Hitotsubashi University) Shun'ichi Yamashita (Nagasaki University)

• Vladimir Gimpelson and Galina Monusava (Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russia),
  "Public Employment and Redistributive Politics in Russian Regions"
  
• Sadayoshi Ohtsu (Kobe University),
  "Patterns of Regional Labor Market Development in Transitional Russia"

  Discussants:

  Akio Komorida (Tokyo University) Satoshi Mizobata (Kyoto University)

• Masaaki Kuboniwa (Hitotsubashi University),
  "Financial Crisis of Advanced Regions in Russia"
  
• Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University),
  "The Regional Agenda in Alternative Plans for Russia's Economic Development"

  Discussants:

  Kimio Uno (Keio University) Akira Uegaki (Seinan Gakuin University)

Excursion to Otaru,the commercial and cultural center of Hokkaido before the war