CEPEX and Sunrock Institute hosted Keizai Doyukai Americas-Japan Relations Committee chairman Yukio Tada for a special dinner with JET Program alumni, Japan experts and friends of Keizai Doyukai at Tono Sushi on November 13, 2013. Mr. Tada discussed Abenomics and fielded questions from the assembled group about the role of women and immigration in Japan. Keizai Doyukai is the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, an influential business organization where members shed their corporate identity as they participate in discussing political, economic and social issues.

The event began with a networking cocktail hour.

(L-R: Keizai Doyukai representatives Tom Oku, R. Byron Sigel and Yukio Tada; with Sunrock Institute President Ken Kuribayashi.)

Keizai Doyukai membership includes 1,300 corporate executives from 900 large corporations in Japan, including foreign corporations. R. Byron Sigel is an executive officer of Baxter Japan who provided keen observations of Abenomics as a foreign executive working in Japan.

Following a sushi bento, participants engaged in a lively discussion with the representatives from Keizai Doyukai.

(L-R: Yasuchika Hasegawa, Yukio Tada, Ken Kuribayashi)

Keizai Doyukai President Yasuchika Hasegawa of Takeda Pharmaceuticals dropped by the event to say a few words.

L-R: Yukio Tada, KAC President Ayako Smethurst