• Ongoing financial missions for banks and non-banks focusing on a variety of topics including sub-prime loans, governance, retail banking, consumer loans.
• June 2008: Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California mission to Sacramento. Met with many key leaders including Governor Schwarzenegger. Topics discussed included 1) high speed rail system; 2) solar panel co-generation; 3) funding assistance
• November 2007/2008: 22nd Annual Credit Union Mission, San Francisco & Seattle
• July 2007: Japan Agricultural Cooperative Financial Mission
• June 2007: Investment Trust Mission
• September 2007: Osaka City Council Team Visit to San Francisco, including President and eight council members. Steve Matsuura provided lectures about California business, politics and economy.
• November 2006: Association of Regional Banks Conference, Retail Marking, San Francisco
• November 2005: Nomura Research Institute Strategy Planning Team, San Francisco
• February 2005: Credit Card Strategy Mission, San Francisco
• October 2005: 33rd QUISS, Quotation Information System Study Team
• September 2005: Suruga Bank Financial Planning Strategy; Marketing Strategy Missions
• September 2005: Japan Agricultural Cooperative US Financial Mission
• June – September 2005: Mission for American manufacturer importing materials from Japan through a Shosha (Japanese trading company). The client wanted to do business directly bypassing the trading companies. Jointly with a San Francisco law firm partner, the issue was successfully resolved.

INTERVIEWS
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• Quoted, Wall Street Journal front page, THE OUTLOOK:
  "The Japanese Threat May be Weak Leaders"
• 1995-1996: Panel Discussion “Recent Economic & Financial Trends Affecting Japan & U.S., NYU. Panelist included James Tobin, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics, Yale University; Nerton Miller, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago; Richard Zeckhauser, Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University; Marti Subrahmanyam(Moderator), Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance and Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University; Steve Matsuura

PUBLICATIONS
(highlights)

• Author of two books:
  • The Challenge of Non-Bank Banks----Can Banks survive?(1988)
  • The General Study of International Finance Law (2004)
• “Lending Practice in Japan" in The Bankers Magazine in 1973.
• "Japanese Banks in Transition: Problems and Prospects", Japan Distinguished Leaders Lecture Series at Columbia Business school, March 27, 1996