JCIE TICAD VI Roundtable | Investing in Health: Benefiting from Corporate Engagement in Health in Africa
JCIE and Amref Health Africa—a prominent African NGO working in the field of health throughout Africa—organized a corporate event that targeted Japanese corporate representatives to provide a rare opportunity for them to engage in practical discussions with representatives from Amref and to accompany Amref health workers to observe first-hand how innovative technologies are employed to improve health in Africa.
G7 Kobe Health Ministers’ Meeting Side Event | Investing in Health: Business Solutions for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
JCIE organized a corporate panel just one day before the G7 Health Ministers’ Meeting to discuss the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The goal of JCIE’s meeting was to cultivate new stakeholders in the global health field from the corporate sector and explore their role in achieving the G7 Ise-Shima Vision.
29th FGFJ Diet Task Force Meeting on Climate Variation’s Impact on Malaria
On March 10, the JCIE/FGFJ Diet Task Force met with Dr. Noboru Minakawa and Dr. Shigeyuki Kano to discuss the relationship between climate variation and malaria. The topic generated a high level of interest among Task Force members, with 11 Diet members participating in productive discussions that will be highlighted in an upcoming report.
JCIE Partners with Japan Women’s Leadership Initiative on COVID-19 Joint Philanthropic Initiative
JCIE is workingwith the Japanese Women’s Leadership Initiative and the Fish Family Foundation to facilitate small grants to 7 organizations in Japan to help them respond to the needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reinvigorating US-Japan Policy Dialogue and Discussion in a Time of Political Change
JCIE’s study on Reinvigorating US-Japan Policy Dialogue and Discussion in a Time of Political Change examined the state of policy dialogue between Japan and the United States and nongovernmental linkages that have facilitated contact between political leaders and policy experts in each country. Based on this research, JCIE released an English report in December 2010.
Rediscovering Common Bonds | TV Dramas as a Reflection of the Times
A Japanese TV that reflected the rising tide of temp workers following deregulation was later remade employment, the show was remade for Korean TV. The producers of these two shows met for the first time in Tokyo to discuss the commonalities and differences reflected in these two dramas.
Rediscovering Common Bonds | Taste the Expanding World of Tea
The fifth seminar of this series focuses on the theme of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese tea culture. Along with a tea ceremony demonstration and tasting, the event explores how the tea world is growing in various ways through different methods of manufacturing and drinking tea using similar tealeaves.
Rediscovering Common Bonds | Talking with America about China-Japan-Korea Relations
The eighth seminar in this series brought together Gerald Curtis, one of America’s leading experts on Japanese politics and diplomacy and on US-Japan relations, as well as other experts to explore America’s relationship to trilateral China-Japan-Korea ties.
Rediscovering Common Bonds | Learning from Pre-modern Korean Diplomacy
With Japan-Korea diplomatic relations being a hot topic in recent years, more than 150 people gathered at JCIE’s 4th “Rediscovering Common Bonds among Japan, China, and Korea” seminar, titled “Screening and Discussion: Learning from Pre-modern Korean Diplomacy,” to learn what history can teach us about promoting peace between these two neighbors.
Rediscovering Common Bonds | China-Japan-ROK Youth Dialogue
On November 14, 2015, JCIE and the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat co-hosted this special seminar where thirty college students from Knowledge Investment Programs and the Global Asia Leadership Forum discussed similarities and differences among the three countries in regard to (1) education, (2) work culture, and (3) gender roles.