March 3
Session I: UK and Japanese Political and Economic Development
SPEAKERS:
Martin Taylor, Chairman of W.H Smith plc; Senior Advisor, Goldman Sachs
Hideo Otake, Professor, Kyoto University
Tadahiro Sekimoto, Senior Member of the Board, NEC Corporation
Tadashi Yamamoto, President, Japan Center for International Exchange
March 4
Session II: Demography, Health, and Retirement
Addressed health issues and the effects of aging populations and declining family cohesion.
SPEAKERS:
Lord Laming, Former Chief Inspector, Social Services, Department of Health
Robin Rowland, International Adviser, Royal & SunAlliance Insurance Group plc; Adviser, LinksJapan
Shinji Fukukawa, Chief Executive Officer, Dentsu Institute for Human Studies
Session III: New Economic Challenges
Examined E-commerce and the growth of the Internet, including the effect on work patterns and unemployment; regulation and control issues, and the role of education and retraining in handling unemployment.
SPEAKERS:
Jim Norton, Head of Electronic Business, Institute of Directors and E-Commerce Adviser to the Cabinet Office
Sir Alan Budd, Provost of the Queen’s College, Oxford
Kiyoshi Yamakawa, Corporate Adviser, Sony Corporation; Chairman of Working Party on E-Commerce of EU/Japan Business Round Table
March 5
Session IV: Bilateral Relations and Communiqué
UK PARTICIPANTS | |
Chairman | |
THE RT HON LORD HOWELL OF GUILDFORD | Advisory Director, UBS Warburg |
Participants | |
VISCOUNT BLAKENHAM | Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
SIR ALAN BUDD | Provost of The Queen’s College, Oxford; Former Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England |
LORD BURNS | House of Lords; Former Chief Economic Adviser and Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury |
BILL EMMOTT | Editor, The Economist |
ANDREW FRASER | Chief Executive, Invest in Britain Bureau |
CHRIS GAMBLE | Director, Royal Institute of International Affairs |
STEPHEN GOMERSALL* | HM Ambassador to Japan |
JANE GRIFFITHS MP | Labour Member of Parliament for Reading East |
GARETH JONES | Managing Director, Abbey National plc |
SIR MARTIN LAING | Chairman, John Laing plc |
LORD LAMING OF TEWIN | Former Chief Inspector, Social Services, Department of Health |
ANTHONY LOEHNIS | Executive Director, UK-Japan 21st Century Group; Former Executive Director, Bank of England |
THE RT HON SIR RICHARD NEEDHAM | Vice-Chairman NEC Europe Ltd; Deputy Chairman, Dyson Appliances; Former Minister for Trade |
PROFESSOR JIM NORTON | Head of E-Business Policy, Institute of Directors and E-Commerce Advisor to the Cabinet Office |
SIR PETER PARKER | Chairman, Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV and Whitehead Mann Group plc |
ROBIN ROWLAND | International Adviser, Royal & SunAlliance Insurance Group plc |
THE HON NICHOLAS SOAMES MP | Conservative Member of Parliament for Mid-Sussex |
MARTIN TAYLOR | Chairman, WH Smith plc; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs |
VISCOUNT TRENCHARD | Director and Head, Japanese Investment Banking, Robert Fleming & Co Ltd |
SIR JOHN WHITEHEAD | Senior Adviser, Deutsche Asset Management; Former HM Ambassador to Japan |
SIR DAVID WRIGHT | Chief Executive, British Trade International; Former HM Ambassador to Japan |
JAPANESE PARTICIPANTS | |
SHINJI FUKUKAWA | Chief Executive Officer, Dentsu Institute for Human Studies |
KIYOHIKO FUKUSHIMA | President, Nomura Research Institute Europe Ltd |
SADAYUKI HAYASHI* | Japanese Ambassador to the UK |
HIROYA ICHIKAWA | Professor, Sophia University |
YOSHINORI IMAI | Executive Presenter and Commentator, NHK Broadcasting Center |
MASAHIKO ISHIZUKA | Editorial Writer, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun |
HIROSHI KITAMURA | President, Shumei University, former Ambassador to the UK |
YUZO NOZAWA | Deputy General Director, Japanese Trade Union Confederation (JTUC-RENGO) |
HIDEO OTAKE | Professor, Kyoto University |
TADAHIRO SEKIMOTO | Senior Member of the Board, NEC Corporation |
HIDEYA TAIDA | Senior Vice President and Executive Corporate Officer, Marubeni Corporation |
KOJI WATANABE | Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange; Executive Advisor, Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren) |
KIYOSHI YAMAKAWA | Corporate Advisor, Sony Corporation |
TADASHI YAMAMOTO | President, Japan Center for International Exchange |
