Greetings

Haruhisa Uchida

Vice Chancellor for Planning and Coordination / Professor, Department of Human Development

Tokai University

"Happiness" of Nordic Countries and Japan

Naoto Yoshikawa

Vice Chancellor / Professor, Department of International Studies, Tokai University

Executive Director, Tokai University European Center

Naoto Yoshikawa is a Vice Chancellor for Global Initiatives and Executive Director of Tokai University European Center. He is a professor at Department of International Studies and has a broad experience teaching in international political economics and international politics, including international development theories. He has served as the Chancellor at Hawaii Tokai International College, a US Junior College, for 10 years. He also has a work experience at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as acting representative/program officer in Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Surinam. He also has served as an economist at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy, and as the administration and finance officer of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Zambia.

The Truth About the Danish Happiness Phenomenon - Plus Paradoxical Japanese Parallels

Michael Booth

Journalist, Writer and author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People

Michael Booth is an award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster. He contributes to a number of newspapers and magazines globally, including Asahi Shimbun, The Sunday Times, Hankyoreh, The Guardian and Weekendavisen. His books have been translated into 20 languages, adapted as anime by NHK and serialised on BBC radio. He is the Denmark correspondent for Monocle magazine and Monocle 24 radio. His latest book is 'Three Tigers, One Mountain', published in English by Jonathan Cape and in Japanese by Kadokawa.

Defining the Concept of Happiness: Social, existential, and methodological factors contributing to apparent high happiness levels in Denmark

Søren Harnow Klausen

Professor, Department for the Study of Culture

University of Southern Denmark

Søren Harnow Klausen is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark. He is currently a leader of the Values, Welfare and Health Research Group and the research projects Human Health – Health and Wellbeing Assessment and Elderly Wellbeing and Alcohol – A Tricky Cocktail (supported by the VELUX Foundation). His wide research interests include happiness and wellbeing, value theory, philosophy of mind, social epistemology and philosophy of literature. He has co-edited the anthology Perspectives on Happiness (Brill, 2019) and is the author of articles like “Happiness, Dispositions and the Self” (2016) and “Understanding Older Adults’ Wellbeing from a Philosophical Perspective” (2020) (both in Journal of Happiness Studies), as well as the book (in Danish) På sporet af din lykke – Guide til det gode liv (“On the Path to Happiness – Guide to the Good Life”) (2018)

Closing

Yutaka Tsujinaka

Vice Chancellor for Arts and Humanities / Professor, Department of Political Science

Tokai University

MC: Jakob Skyt Jensen, Deputy Director, Tokai University European Center