The Graduate School of Leadership & Innovation, Shizenkan University is pleased to announce the start of the JAPAN Project. Led by Everett Kennedy Brown, the author and photographer from the United States who lives in Kyoto and has been invited as a new professor. The project will reconsider "Japan in the world" and discuss and explore "the essence of Japanese culture and its significance for the world and our common future”.

As a kick-off event for this project, a special forum will be held on Wednesday, September 29th at 7:00 p.m. with Seiichi Kondo, former Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and Ambassador to UNESCO, as a special advisor to the project. The webinar will be held in English, and we hope that you will be able to attend.

Language: English (simultaneous interpretation will not be provided)

Theme: The East-West Dialogues: Why and How Japan is Becoming More Relevant to the World Now

Keynote Speech: Mr. Seiichi Kondo, Former Commissioner for Cultural Affairs; Former Ambassador to UNESCO; Special Advisor to the Shizenkan Japan Project

Discussants: Mr. Everett Kennedy Brown, Professor at Shizenkan; Author and Photographer; the founding director of the Kyoto Kaisho Foundation Mr. Haitze Siemers, Deputy Head of Mission, Delegation of the European Union to Japan (to be confirmed)

Facilitator: Mr. Naoshi Takatsu, Board of Directors, Shizenkan; Representative, Northeast Asia, IMD

Special Guests: Mr. Hosoo Masao, Chairman, Hosoo Co., Ltd.
Mr. Shinichi Okubo, Executive Vice President, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.