2016年9月29日に、大和日英基金は駐日 英国大使館との共催で大使公邸において第 二回大和一番レクチャーを開催しました。 フィナンシャル・タイムズ紙の編集長の ライオネル・バーバーが講師を務め、 EU 離脱「ブレグジット」後の英国につい て講演しました。 講演では、英国にとってEUの歴史的意義 を始め、2008年と2009年の世界金融危機 5 とユーロゾーンの危機を背景にした統合の 流動化について述べました。更に、「小さ な英国」に移行してしまうより、むしろ政 治および金融に積極的な関心を持つことを 主張し、バーバー氏は「ブレグジット」の 最も理想的なシナリオや、その後の英国の 新たな役割について提案しました: http://on.ft.com/2eCqF5D
29 September 2016
On 29 September 2016, in collaboration with the British Embassy in Tokyo, Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, spoke on the subject of “Britain after Brexit” at Ambassador Tim Hitchens’s Residence. This was the second lecture in the ongoing Daiwa Ichiban Lecture Series. In his speech, Barber recounted the historical significance of Europe for
5 October 2016
This January, Japan and United Kingdom Defence Ministers agreed to collaborate to support capacity building assistance in Southeast Asia. The Capacity Building Assistance Programme is the newest pillar of collaboration between our two countries. Director Mitsuko Hayashi and Captain Charles Ashcroft will provide an overview of the Programme and explore current activities and collaboration with partner countries.
大和一番レクチャーは毎年東京の英国大使公邸で行なわれるレクチャ ーシリーズで、幅広い分野における英国人の著名な講師を紹介するも のです。 第一回の大和一番レクチャーは２０１木曜日に東京の英国大使館と 協力して英国大使公邸で開催されました。講師のサー・ポール・ナー ス(前王立協会長、2001年のノーベル賞受賞者)は「科学への信頼」 と題して講演を行いました。講演の中で科学が人類にもたらす偉大な る貢献について強調しましたが、科学者と幅広い意味でのコミュニティ との信頼が非常に大切で、それが科学の進歩の速度と社会における 価値観を最大限にするのに不可欠である旨の話がありました。 The full text can be downloaded here: dajf.org.uk/…/Sir-Paul-Nurse-The-Daiwa-Ichiban-Lecture-Trust-in-Science-0811151.pdf
8 October 2015
The inaugural Daiwa Ichiban Lecture was held on Thursday 8th October, in collaboration with the British Embassy in Tokyo, at Ambassador Tim Hitchen’s Residence. Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society and a Nobel Prize laureate, spoke on the subject of “Trust in Science”. In his lecture, he stressed the enormous benefits that science has delivered to mankind, but argued that trust between scientists and the broader community is vital in maximising both the speed of scientific progress and its value to society.
28 April 2015
The Japanese economy came out of its latest recession in the last quarter of 2014, but expectations of higher growth have been somewhat dampened. This recession is the sixth that Japan has experienced since 1997, and the past twenty or so years of tepid economic growth have been characterised as Japan’s “Lost Decades”.
20 September 2013
We were pleased to invite Professor Semir Zeki, an expert on visual cognition and neuro-aesthetics, to speak with Tatsuo Miyajima, one of the most prominent Japanese artists practising today and who has been influenced by cognitive science. Conceptual approaches to art are familiar to contemporary audiences, yet there remain fundamental questions of what art is and where it originates. If science is able to fully explain the experience of art, does it reduce art’s significance?
13 June 2013
From the 1990s on, most observers thought that Japan was developing in the direction of a UK- or US-style political system based on two main parties. However Democratic Party of Japan was beaten in the December 2012 Lower House election. Is Japan entering into a new period of prolonged LDP dominance? Elements within the LDP sense that the party’s current strength may offer an historic opportunity to revise Japan’s Constitution, which was imposed by the victorious Allies after the end of World War II. Professor Kensuke Takayasu is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Law, Seikei University in Tokyo and will discuss the possibility of constitutional change and the possible effects of this for Japan, its neighbours and the wider world.
8 March 2012
This lecture discussed the politics of raising the Consumption Tax, and in particular the reasons why the discussion has moved forward during the time that the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has been in power.
12 October 2011
In this special lecture, seven months after the 11th of March earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Ambassador Hayashi examined the impact of the disaster and Japan’s progress in the reconstruction effort to help rebuild the lives of people in the affected areas.
