Professor Simon Chesterman (Chinese name: Chen Xiwen), Dean of the Law School of the National University of Singapore and a famous international jurist, was invited to visit the Japan Research Center on the morning of April 19, 2019 at the Kaiyuan School of Law of Shanghai Jiao Tong University for attending the Asia Pacific Regional Law School Dean's Forum. During the talks, the two sides recalled their exchanges in Singapore and other places, and hoped to promote academic cooperation in such areas as Asian law and social research, East Asian big data and comparison of artificial intelligence and judicial reform, and laws and policies in the marginal sea of East Asia. They also hoped to promote postgraduate study abroad through the Baixian Asian Future Leaders Education Project. Xu Xiaobing, a researcher of the National Marine Strategy and Rights Research Base, Matthias Vanhullebusch, director of the editorial department of the International English Journal of Asian Law and Society, Xu Yue, director of the Office of the Japan Research Center, and Liu Lu, deputy director also attended the meeting and reception.