Europe-Japan Dialogue public lecture  is one of Japan Desk Scotland’s past activities.   The first lecture was held in June 2003, when Yushin of Japan Desk Scotland was Administrator, Europe-Japan Social Science Research Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow.  Since then 35 lectures were organised until November 2011.

In 2012/13, Japan Desk Scotland organised three ‘Europe-Japan Dialogue’ public lecture series for University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, under the common theme of ‘Opportunities in Japan’.

The lecture was free and open to the public.

Europe-Japan Dialogues in 2012/13:

(1) Monday 22 October 2012: ‘Opportunities in Japan’, Mr Naoki Ito, Minister (Economic), Embassy of Japan in the UK
To read the summery of his talk, with slides, please click here.

(2) Monday 3 December 2012: ‘Japanese Risk, Quality and Trust Traits’, Mr Vaughan Turner, Managing Director, Terasaki Electric Europe
To read the summary of his talk, with slides, please click here.

(3) Monday 18 February 2013: ‘Japan and the Challenges of Globalisation’, Sir Stephen Gomersall, KCMG, Director and Hitachi’s Group Chairman for Europe
To read the summary of his talk, with slides, please click here.