19 January 2005
Different cultural perspectives on the crafts and different approaches to the production and collection of craft objects were featured in the presentations and discussions.
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This seminar addressed societal change in the UK and Japan through the prism of interpersonal relations and family life. It also highlighted the increase in one-person households and lone-parent families is impacting upon the economic and social framework of both countries.
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This seminar will look to the Baby Boomer generations in the UK and Japan and their changing expectations of the future as they approach retirement and old age.
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This seminar provided a rare opportunity to parallel and to explore different cultural approaches to the subject of death. The specific areas of expertise of our speakers and chairperson contributed complementary perspectives on this important theme.
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This seminar looked at ways in which the design sectors in both countries are developing innovative approaches and solutions to the needs of ageing societies – in the home, in the workplace and in all areas of public life.
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This seminar highighted how Britain and Japan was facing up to the future of work was addressed by our speakers who dealt with both the policy and practice of adapting to a new economic environment.
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This seminar focused upon some of the issues affecting young people in Japan as they face the transition from school to work.
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Changing demographics has become one of the major challenges facing government and business in the 21st century. The rapid ageing of societies, changes in household sizes, family structures, and so on, all point to a future in which family life, work and employment and social welfare needs will increasingly depart from established norms.
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‘Innovation and Change: Challenges for Industry in the UK and Japan’, the fourth in this year’s seminar series, ‘Economic Futures: Wealth and Well-Being in the UK and Japan’, brought together complementary knowledge on innovation and the role of government.
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‘Saving and Spending: Banking Crises and Consumer Confidence’, the third in this year’s seminar series, ‘Economic Futures: Wealth and Well-Being in the UK and Japan’, could not have been more timely, coming in the wake of the nationalisation of Northern Rock and on the eve of the announcement that the American bank, Bear Stearns, had received emergency funding, raising fears that one of Wall Street’s biggest names was on the brink of collapse.
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