Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Time: 8:00–9:00
Hosting Committee: Education
Member Fee: ¥0
Guest Fee: ¥500
Registration/Cancellation Deadline: Tuesday, December 8 (16:00)
Please note that this session is an open committee meeting
This meeting will be hosted as a webinar. Instructions for joining the virtual meeting will be sent to registered attendees after the above stated deadline.
Meeting Overview
ACCJ member companies often cite the dearth of “global talent” in Japan as a drag on productivity and impediment to investment and growth. The most recent annual report of the International Institute for Management Development showed Japan slipping from 29th to 35th worldwide in the supply of global talent, falling well behind regional competitors such as Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Malaysia. Meanwhile, even before the pandemic hit, fewer and fewer young Japanese were studying abroad every year. The growing global skills gap will impede Tokyo’s aspirations to become a global financial hub, and continue to hold back the potential of ACCJ member companies and other global businesses active in Japan.
Matthew Wilson, brand-new Dean of Temple University Japan (TUJ), will lead us in a consideration of the state of global education in Japan and how business can encourage creation of the global talent that Japan and we need for a prosperous future. A distinguished educational leader with long experience in Japan and the United States (including serving as president of two American universities), Dean Wilson is also a renowned scholar of international business and law. Temple University founded its Japan campus in 1982. It is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious foreign university branch campus in Japan. From its new campus in Setagaya-ku just two stops from Shibuya, TUJ imparts a U.S.-style English language global education to more than 4000 learners every year in its core undergraduate program and graduate programs in law, business, and education, as well as in English language, continuing, and corporate education courses.
Mark Davidson and William Swinton, Co-Chairs
Thierry Porte, Vice-Chairs
ACCJ Education Committee
NOTE 1: This meeting is OFF THE RECORD.
NOTE 2: If you cancel after the stated deadline, the full meeting fee will be charged to your account.