Day 1
Friday 28th October

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

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

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.