Events - Speaker

On March 14th, 2014, Embassy of Canada, in collaboration with the Japan-Canada Interdisciplinary Research Network on Gender, Diversity and Tohoku Reconstruction (JCIRN), will hold a “Japan-Canada Policy Dialogue on Democracy, Diversity, and Disasters.” This is the sister event to the “Japan-Canada Policy Dialogue on Risk Governance”, which was hosted by the Embassy of Japan in Ottawa on February 6, 2014.

In collaboration with the English-Speaking Union of Japan (ESUJ), the CCCJ presents International Development: Contradiction in Terms? by Dr. David M. Malone. Prior to joining the United Nations University as Rector on 1 March 2013, Dr. Malone served (2008-2013) as President of Canada’s International Development Research Centre. He earned his degrees from l’École des Hautes Études Commerciales (Montreal), the American University (Cairo), the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a DPhil in International Relations from Oxford University.

Feeding and Fuelling a Hungry World: Saskatchewan’s Role in a Dynamic Japan and a Vibrant Asia.  

Saskatchewan has one the strongest economies in Canada, with capital investment, job creation and population growth at record levels.  Its agricultural, energy and mineral resources are in high demand around the world, and its scientists and researchers are doing leading edge work in areas such as agricultural biotechnology and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS).

We cordially invite McGill Japan MBA Alumni, McGill Alumni, and McGill parents and friends to a special dinner gathering with Professor Karim Nader, whose research into how memory works has led to his being named one of "The Ten People Who Could Change the World" by Forbes magazine.

C. W. Nicol is a celebrated writer, lecturer and environmentalist who has lived in Kurohime, Nagano, since 1980 having first come to Japan in 1962.

Alarmed at the neglect and outright destruction of Japan’s forests, he began buying adjoining parcels of abused and neglected woodland in 1986, and hiring a local forester to help return the woods to health. In 2002 he donated this land to form the nucleus of The C.W.Nicol Afan Woodland Trust.

During the past 12 months, a great deal of progress has been made in terms of relieving people's immediate needs, yet years of reconstruction stretch ahead in Tohoku. And while the Government of Japan is of necessity first addressing major infrastructural needs, the view from the region's cities and towns is understandably more focused on the minutiae of repairing the social fabric of communities that have literally been torn asunder.