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Special economic advisor to PM Abe speaks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Hamada, a special economic adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on economic affairs and professor emeritus at Yale University, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2014. He expressed his idea of lowering Japan's effective corporate tax rate to around 25% from the current rate of around 35%.

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Abe's adviser calls for delay to tax hike if economy slows

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Hamada, a Yale University emeritus professor of economics, is interviewed by Kyodo News in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2014. Hamada, a special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said the government should put off a further consumption tax hike to 10 percent in 2015 or raise the rate by 1 percentage point per year if the economy stalls.

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Japanese economic experts in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Koichi Hamada (R), Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy adviser, and Heizo Takenaka, professor at Keio University in Japan, attend an event at the Japan Society in New York on April 30, 2014.

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Abe's economic policy adviser

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Hamada, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy adviser and a Yale University professor emeritus of economics, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2013.

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Ex-LDP lawmaker Koichi Hamada dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows House of Representatives lawmaker Koichi Hamada dismantling a barricade at the headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo in November 1979 during an internal party conflict. Hamada, who served seven terms as an LDP legislator and was known as an outspoken member of parliament, died of heart failure on Aug. 5, 2012, at his home. He was 83.

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Ex-LDP lawmaker Koichi Hamada dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2001 shows Koichi Hamada, former House of Representatives lawmaker. Hamada, who served seven terms as a Liberal Democratic Party legislator and was known as an outspoken member of parliament, died of heart failure on Aug. 5, 2012, at his home. He was 83.

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Consumption tax hike will adversely impact markets: Abe adviser

Photo taken March 16, 2016, shows Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy adviser Koichi Hamada speaking to reporters at the premier's office in Tokyo. Hamada said in a television broadcast on March 25 that a consumption tax increase scheduled for 2017 is likely to "adversely impact" financial markets that are already anticipating its postponement. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Special economic advisor to PM Abe speaks in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Hamada, a special economic adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on economic affairs and professor emeritus at Yale University, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2014. He expressed his idea of lowering Japan's effective corporate tax rate to around 25% from the current rate of around 35%. (Kyodo)

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Abe adviser Koichi Hamada

Koichi Hamada, an economic adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, discusses the Bank of Japan's negative interest rate policy during an interview in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe adviser says foreign bond buying by BOJ could be "option"

Koichi Hamada, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, gives an interview to Kyodo News in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2016. Purchases of foreign bonds by the Bank of Japan "could become an option" as a step in easing its monetary grip further, the professor emeritus at Yale University said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe adviser says foreign bond buying by BOJ could be "option"

Koichi Hamada, an economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, gives an interview to Kyodo News in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2016. Purchases of foreign bonds by the Bank of Japan "could become an option" as a step in easing its monetary grip further, the professor emeritus at Yale University said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo