Day 1
Friday 28th October
9:00 - 10:40 Opening Remarks and Executive Panel (North Building Conference Hall)
Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-12:30 Panel session (North Building Conference Hall)
Lunch
13:30 Coach (bus) leaves
14:00-16:30 Company Visit (TOTO Technical Centre in Shinjuku)
8:00 - 9:00 Foyer (Ground floor) of North Building
Registration
9:00 - 10:40 North Building Conference Hall (Ground floor)
Opening Remarks:
Tomoki SEKIGUCHI, President of EAMSA, Kyoto University
Chie IGUCHI, Conference Chair, Keio University
Executive Panel:
"ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS BY JAPANESE MULTINATIONALS: PROSPECTS AND IMPLICATIONS"
Moderator: Jim HAGEN, Hamline University
Speakers (in alphabetical order)
Ayako ITO, General Manager of Corporate Sustainability Department, Bridgestone Corporation
Megumu TSUDA, Corporate Officer and General Manager of the Sustainability Promotion Division, Hitachi Ltd.
Mitsuhiro UMEZU, Professor of Business Ethics, CSRs and Sustainability, Keio University
10:40 - 11:00 Foyer, Ground floor North Building
Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 - 12:30 North Building Conference Hall (Ground floor)
Panel session:
"MULTINATIONALS' INVESTMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: HOW IMPACT HAS CHANGED OVER TIME."
Chair: Axèle GIROUD, Professor of International Business, Alliance Manchester Business School, United Kingdom
Panellists (in Alphabetical order):
Chie IGUCHI, Professor of International Business, Keio University, Japan
Hikari ISHIDO, Professor of International Economics, Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies /Director, Bangkok Campus /Director, APEC Study Center, Chiba University, Japan
Upalat KORWATANASUKAL, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Japan
Hendrik MEYER-OHLE, Associate Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences National University Singapore, Singapore
Andrew STAPLES, Dr., Regional Head, (APAC), Policy & Insights, Economist Impact, Singapore
12:30 - 13:20 Foyer, Ground floor North Building
Lunch
For those joining the company visit, you will have a bento box in the meeting room. Please follow your interpreter.
For those NOT joining the company visit, you will have lunch at Cafeteria A&B. Please follow students and choose the one you like from 3 different menus. (Your lunchtime can extend longer than 13:20.
13:20 - Company Visit
Information for the company visit
13:30 Coach (bus) to the company visit leaves at around the main gate of the Mita Campus
13:50 We will arrive at the JR Shinjuku building
14:00 - 16:30
Company Visit: TOTO Technical Centre in Shinjuku
- Presentation on sustainable business of TOTO (60 mins; Japanese followed by English interpretation)
- Tour of TOTO Technical Centre (60mins; Japanese followed by English interpretation)
16:45 You are free outside the JR Shinjuku building (3 mins walk from JR Shinjuku station)
Board and Advisory committee members: Coach (bus) leaves for the Mita campus
17:30 - 19:00
Board and Advisory Committee meeting Room 446, 4th Floor, Faculty Research Building
19:15 - Dinner for Board and Advisory Committee members Mita-Yamadaya, 2-1-19 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo
NOTE:
- The number of participants in the company visit is limited to 42, due to restricted space at the centre. (Those who can participate in the company visit will be announced very soon.)
- Please wear a facemask all the time during the company visit.
- Please do not bring bulky items (such as a suitcase).
- Please wear name tags all the time during the company visit for identification of EAMSA's participants.