→Japanese The World Dementia Council has re-formed into an independent, global council at its seventh meeting on February 25 in London. The Council has been renewed to reflect the significance of dementia as a global issue. Dr. Kurokawa will continue to serve as a member of the Council. https://worlddementiacouncil.wordpress.com/2016/02/26/world-dementia-council-goes-global/ Press Release https://worlddementiacouncil.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/160224-wdc7-press-release-final.pdf
→Japanese He had come to discuss his talk “Resilience and the Unimaginable; Technology and Risk: Lessons from Japan” as part of the Carnegie Council’s centenary program, ‘Ethics for a Connected World’. By the next morning, at around 10 a.m, he had sent me an email thanking me for our discussion along with with his speech […]
→Japanese I left Haneda on the 15th of March. Headed for Geneva via Helsinki, where the World Dementia Council and the Ministerial Council were to convene at the headquarters of the WHO on the 16th and the 17th. Due to some restrictions from the requirements of the National Assembly, the Minister of Health, Labour and […]
→Japanese On March 12th, I attended a lunch organized by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership on “Japanese American Leaders and Japan-US Relations.” The organizer was Irene Hirano Inouye, the wife of the late Senator Daniel Inouye. This time, as the main event held in Hiroshima was on the topic of “Ageing Society and […]
→Japanese On Sunday February 8th, I flew from Haneda to London to speak as a panelist on the Opening Plenary Panel for the Chatham House conference, Ageing and Health. I took the Heathrow Express for the first time and it was smooth and quite convenient. It was a beautiful Sunday and many people were outside […]
→Japanese more photos→ （1）（2） After returning from London, I gave a speech at the international conference for the Red Cross in Fukushima, met with Peter Piot, and participated in many lectures. It was November before I knew it. I participated in the World Dementia Council’s Legacy Event Japan for the entire program on both November 5th […]
→Japanese Over these past two months, I have had the opportunity to be involved with the UK on several occasions. At the beginning of October, I served as a panelist at a conference held by Chatham House and the Japan Foundation. Chatham House is a world-renowned British think tank. I have visited and worked with […]
→Japanese I have not posted a new entry since the end of June. I apologize for the delay, I became busy with many things. From the end of June to the beginning of July, I gave seminars for four days in a row, including over the weekend. I spoke at Mr. Takejiro Sueyoshi’s CSO Seminar, […]
→Japanese I was appointed a member of the World Dementia Council. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-host-g8-dementia-summit http://dementiachallenge.dh.gov.uk/ Please see the column “To London-1”.
→Japanese In April, there were many conferences that focused on issues related to the G7 Summit agenda in anticipation of the Summit in May. The first G7 (originally G6) Summit was held in 1975. When Japan was the host country in 1979, the word “health” appeared for the first time on the G7 agenda. Following […]