The DIJ mourns the loss of Kiyonari Tadao, who passed away on July 23 at the age of 91. After studying economics at the University of Tokyo, Kiyonari initially worked for a government organisation in finance. From 1972 until his retirement in 2005, he was Professor of Business Administration at Hosei University in Tokyo. From 1996 to 2005, he also headed the university as president and promoted its internationalisation. He was already associated with Germany during his time as a student and supported the DIJ in many ways after its foundation in 1988, for example by organising the library cooperation that still exists today. In 1994, he played a major role in the preparation and support of a DIJ-organised conference on economic integration and regional development in East Asia. The proceedings of the conference have been published in German in the DIJ Miscellanea series (volume 11, 1995) and also contain a contribution by Kiyonari on ‘Globalisation and Regional Transformation – East Asia and Kyushu-Okinawa’. The photo shows Kiyonari with the founding director of the DIJ, Josef Kreiner, at a symposium at Hosei University in 2008.