10 December 2009
What happens to the traditional work practices of Japanese firms when they are taken over by European and American firms? How do the employees react? What lessons can be learned from examples of successful and unsuccessful acquisitions?
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Japan’s Showa era began in 1926 when Emperor Hirohito took the throne and ended on his death in 1989. It was undoubtedly the most momentous, calamitous, successful and glamorous period in Japan’s recent history.
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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 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 lecture by the eminent architectural historian, Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki, explored the Victorian face of Meiji Japan through the work of Josiah Conder (1852-1920), a British architect invited by the Japanese government to teach at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1877.
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‘The Transformation of the Japanese Left’ examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ‘the old socialists’, the Japan Socialist Party, and in its place, the emergence of the Democratic Party of Japan as the leading opposition party.
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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 Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to announce a solo show by Chris Orr, “LONDON-TOKYO-NAGASAKI” Chris Orr RA has had many exhibitions worldwide including at the Whitechapel and Serpentine Galleries in London. He regularly shows his work at the Jill George Gallery and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Last year, the special exhibition, ‘10’
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This seminar looked to the past and the future in assessing the key issues relating to financial crisis management; what can be learned from the Japanese experience and what may the future hold for Japan and the global economy.
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The fifth seminar in the 2009 series “Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan” explored the concept of ‘special relationships’ (first used by Winston Churchill in 1945 to describe the shared interests and values of the United Kingdom and the United States), with respect to the United States, Great Britain and Japan.
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Edited by Hugo Dobson and Nobuko Kosuge, with contributions by Kimihiko Baba, Hugo Dobson, Reinhard Drifte, C.G.H. Dunlop, Yoichi Kibata, Nobuko Kosuge, Fumitaka Kurosawa, Kei Nemoto, Ian Nish, Caroline Rose, Philip Towle and John Weste. Since the events of the Second World War the relationship between Japan and Britain has undergone an extraordinary transformation, from
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The three artists short listed for the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize, introducing British artists to Japan, will exhibit their work at Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery in London until 17 July 2009. The winner of the £5,000 prize and the opportunity for a solo exhibition at the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo – Marcus Coates – was announced on 16th June.
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