“Dream Seminar”: APIC Endowment Talk Series in Amacho, Shimane Prefecture -1st Talk: Aon Japan President & CEO, APIC Director Mr. Tatsuya Yamamoto
1. Recollected his journey from being an elementary school student in Malaysia to working in a Japanese insurance company to working at the world-wide company Aon. Mentioned his experience encountering the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
2. Talked about Aon as well as risk management.
3. Compared the number of world-wide and Japanese Top Global companies from 1995 to 2020.
4. Talked about Nippon Foundation’s “Awareness Questionnaire for 18-year-olds: Do you think your country is headed for a better future?”
5. Discussed Japan’s originality and national character; differences between other countries.
6. Japanese are afraid of embarrassment. Americans take the plunge and understand each other through discussion.
7. Japan is a safe and relatively happy place; however, is okay to remain complacent?
Q&A Session
1. What is important for you when working with non-Japanese?
2. Discussed the value of taking a calculated risk
3. Discussed the Go! Blue Project from Okinoerabu Island, Kagoshima
4. Don’t be embarrassed when speaking English
5. Know your value; adapt your attitude so that you have a wider breadth of ideas
6. Amacho project-a non-typical Japanese idea
You can read the full exchange of the talk below (Ogi Learning Center; Japanese only)
APIC寄付講座夢ゼミ＿ゲスト：山本達也さん【前編】
APIC寄付講座夢ゼミ＿ゲスト：山本達也さん【後編】
The launch of APIC’s “Dream Seminar” series stems from a cooperative agreement signed in October 2019 between the town of Amacho in Shimane Prefecture, and APIC. It is part of APIC’s contribution project to Amacho’s promotion of its concept of an “Academy of Building People Who Love their Home Town”. The young generation has the opportunity to directly listen and react to talks given by speakers who have vast experience overseas, eventually leading to a deeper understanding and interest in foreign culture and international cooperation among the attendees. Due to COVDI-19 measures, the number of audience members was limited, but nonetheless a lively conversation ensued after the speech between them and Mr. Yamamoto.
Mr. Keisuke Ono, the person in charge of Amacho’s “Ogi Dozen Educational Attractivization Project”, was the MC of the event, along with the participation of APIC Executive Director and Sophia University Visiting Professor Mr. Shoji Sato, and Ms. Kaori Hamanaka, HR Department Special Mission Manager of the Amacho side.
The second talk is scheduled to take place on January 22nd, 2021 with Professor Anne McDonald of the Sophia University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies giving a lecture in Amacho.
(Mr. Yamamoto, President of Aon Japan)
WHAT'S NEW
-2020.12.17 UPDATE
EVENTS "The 371st Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues"
-2020.12.2 UPDATE
PROJECTS "Water Tanks Donated to Pohnpei, FSM for Drought Aid"
-2020.11.27 UPDATE
EVENTS "“Dream Seminar”: APIC Endowment Talk Series in Amacho, Shimane Prefecture -1st Talk: Aon Japan President & CEO, APIC Director Mr. Tatsuya Yamamoto"
-2020.11.19 UPDATE
EVENTS "The 370th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues"
-2020.11.18 UPDATE
EVENTS "Opening ceremony for Micronesia Photo Exhibition “Pacific Light” in Amacho"
-2020.11.13 UPDATE
PROJECTS "2nd term APIC-MCT Exchange Student Graduates, article in Local Press"
-2020.10.14 UPDATE
EVENTS "The 369th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues"
-2020.9.23 UPDATE
EVENTS "The 368th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues"
-2020.9.2 UPDATE
EVENTS "Tonga: Blue Open Seas and Rugby- A Proud and Kind People"
-2020.8.28 UPDATE
EVENTS "Past “Pacific & Caribbean Islands Student Invitation Program” Participants Take Part in Japanese Speech Contest in Trinidad & Tobago"
-2020.7.16 UPDATE
EVENTS "The 367th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues"
-2020.6.10 UPDATE
PROJECTS "News from Haiti Vol. 11 (Final): Culture of Haiti"
-2020.2.27 UPDATE
EVENTS "The 366th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues"
-2020.2.13 UPDATE
EVENTS "Pacific and Caribbean Student Invitation Program 2020"
-2020.1.16 UPDATE
EVENTS "The 365th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues"
-2019.12.25 UPDATE
EVENTS “Jamaica Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade Bilateral Relations Deputy Director Invitation Program”
-2019.12.23 UPDATE
EVENTS “The 364th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues”
-2019.11.28 UPDATE
EVENTS “College of Micronesia Student Invitation Program”
-2019.11.21 UPDATE
EVENTS “The 363rd Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues”
-2019.11.21 UPDATE
EVENTS “Federated States of Micronesia President Panuelo Reception”
-2019.11.18 UPDATE
EVENTS “APIC Congratulates FSM Ambassador Kasio Mida on Receiving Imperial Honors”
-2019.10.31 UPDATE
EVENTS “President of the Republic of Fiji and APIC President Sato Hold Talks”
-2019.10.18 UPDATE
EVENTS “Amacho & APIC Sign MoU”
-2019.10.18 UPDATE
EVENTS “Preliminary Research Conducted in Samoa”
-2019.10.18 UPDATE
PROJECTS “3rd Term MCT Exchange Students Enter Sophia University Graduate School”
-2019.10.18 UPDATE
PROJECTS “Summer Semester 2019 Tsuda University Short-term Internship Program”
-2019.10.11 UPDATE
EVENTS “Barbados Minister of Creative Economy, Culture and Sports Invitation Program”
-2019.9.20 UPDATE
EVENTS “Office Relocation”
-2019.9.20 UPDATE
EVENTS “Sophia University Micronesia Exposure Tour‘19”
-2019.9.20 UPDATE
EVENTS “Visit to Caribbean Islands with Sophia University President Terumichi”
-2019.9.19 UPDATE
EVENTS “The 361st Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues”
-2019.9.9 UPDATE
PROJECTS “News from Haiti: Vol. 10 part 1”
-2019.8.30 UPDATE
PROJECTS “Interview: Masato Honda, APIC Trustee (Toshin International Corp. Honorary Chairman)”
-2019.8.26 UPDATE
EVENTS “Yapp Catholic High School Invitation Program”
-2019.8.23 UPDATE
EVENTS “Chuuk State, Micronesia Young Leaders (tourism) Invitation Program”
-2019.8.1 UPDATE
EVENTS “Samoa Finance Minister & Chief Executive Officer Invitation Program”
-2019.8.1 UPDATE
EVENTS “CARICOMM Marine Security Members Invitation Program”
-2019.6.20 UPDATE
EVENTS “The 359th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues”
-2019.5.22 UPDATE
EVENTS “Young Leaders Invitation Program: Micronesia”
-2019.5.16 UPDATE
EVENTS “The 358th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues”
-2019.4.26 UPDATE
EVENTS “FSM National Historic Preservation officer Mr. Augustine Kohler Invitation & Tour of Japan-Cambodia Bilateral World Heritage-related Facilities”
-2019.4.22 UPDATE
EVENTS “The 357th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues”
-2019.4.4 UPDATE
EVENTS “The 356th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues”
-2019.3.25 UPDATE
EVENTS “Pacific Environmental Seminar Held in Samoa”
-2019.3.15 UPDATE
PROJECTS “Fall Semester 2018 Sophia University Short-term Internship Program”
-2019.2.28 UPDATE
EVENTS “The 355th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues”
-2019.2.28 UPDATE
EVENTS “Federated States of Micronesia Tourism Promotion Mission”
-2019.2.4 UPDATE
EVENTS “The 354th Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues”
-2019.2.4 UPDATE
EVENTS “Pacific and Caribbean Student Invitation Program 2019”
-2019.1.17 UPDATE
PROJECTS “News from Haiti Vol. 9”
-2019.1.8 UPDATE
EVENTS “The 353rd Lecture Meeting Regarding Global Issues”
-2019.1.8 UPDATE
EVENTS “‛Island Sustainability Symposium' held at Sophia University”
-2019.1.8 UPDATE
PROJECTS “Interview: NID Chairman & Top Advisor Mr. Kouichi Komori”
-2019.1.8 UPDATE
PROJECTS “Interview: University of the West Indies Alumni Dane Miller”
-2019.1.8 UPDATE
PROJECTS “Interview: APIC-MCT Exchange Students Bradford and Bertha”
-2014.12.15 Update
Website renewal