24 January 2008
This first seminar in the series set the scene and provided a context for the full 2008 programme by offering an overview of the British and Japanese economies and an outlook for the future.
More infoAs 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of diplomatic and commercial relations between the UK and Japan, this year-long seminar series has taken as its theme the relationship between the economy and society in the two countries. Reflecting on the pattern of post-war economic development and the lessons of rapid economic growth, the series has considered
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This seventh seminar in the 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’, reflected on relations with Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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This sixth seminar in the 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’, looked at the particular roles played by Japan and Britain in international development assistance.
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The eighth seminar in the 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’, took its title from a recently-published book that examines Japan’s role in ‘a more complicated world’.
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This fourth seminar in the 2009 seminar series “Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan” looked to some key dimensions of the UK’s present-day relationship with the Asia-Pacific region.
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‘India and the UK-Japan Dialogue’ was the third in this year’s seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’ featuring contributions by Minister Wataru Nishigahiro, Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Japan in London and Barry Gardiner MP, who founded and chaired the Labour Friends of India.
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‘North East Asia: Territorial Disputes and Divided Countries’ was the second in this year’s seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’.
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‘International Diplomacy Challenges for Britain and Japan’ was the first in the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’. Summary The Chair, Sir Graham Fry, British Ambassador to Japan from 2004-2008, opened proceedings by positing that the UK and Japan tend to have the same aims
More infoThis year-long series set the challenges facing the UK and Japan within the broader framework of international diplomacy, analysing the structures and systems that allow for consultation and cooperation in national, regional and global contexts; it considered bilateral and multilateral relationships against the backdrop of history and present-day and future agendas.
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