Great Eastern Japan Earthquake 3rd Year Memorial International Symposium
Content List
#1 Opening Remarks
This symposium invited special guests to hear their insightful views about “Risk, Governance, Leadership” from multilateral perspectives. Through their experiences of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake ranging from “Crisis response in Japan” at the national level to “How to link risk management and governance to business”, panelists discussed to leverage the efforts to prevent such risks in corpo…
#2 Keynote Speech1: Crisis Response in Japan Viewed from Abroad [English]
Dr. Jaczko gave a keynote speech on crisis management and leadership at a time of crisis based on his own experience during the Fukushima Daiichi accident. NOTE: - Related Links: Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation UTokyo Policy Alternatives Research Institute
#3 Panel Discussion1: Japan’s Crisis Management
In this session, panelists discussed the challenges that Japan is currently confronted from the view point of crisis management, looking back the past three years since the Great East Japan Earthquake. NOTE: - No subtitles. This lecture was conducted only in Japanese. - Related Links: Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation UTokyo Policy Alternatives Research …
#4 Keynote Speech2: Rethinking Risk, Governance and Leadership
Mr. Takeshi Niinami, CEO & Representative Director, Lawson, Inc. has delivered his keynote speech on exercising leadership during a crisis, based on the experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake, in which many of the Lawson stores along the Sanriku coastline were washed away by the subsequent tsunami. By reference to those actual cases, he shared with the audience how he prioritized and a…
#5 Panel Discussion2: Uncertainty and Business
In this session, panelists discussed what constitutes the exemplary leadership and how to build them through education and trainings. NOTE: - No subtitles. This lecture was conducted only in Japanese. - Related Links: Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation UTokyo Policy Alternatives Research Institute
#6 Session: Risk Management in Practice
In the last session, specific examples of crisis response from the on-site operational perspectives, practical crisis consciousness and local risk management were discussed. To start off the session, three panelists conducted fifteen-minute presentation for each. Mr. Hiruma focused on the definition of “risk”, followed by Mr. Asano addressing weaknesses and challenges of Japan’s “governance” at a…
#7 Closing Remarks
This symposium invited special guests to hear their insightful views about “Risk, Governance, Leadership” from multilateral perspectives. Through their experiences of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake ranging from “Crisis response in Japan” at the national level to “How to link risk management and governance to business”, panelists discussed to leverage the efforts to prevent such risks in corpo…