Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on December 15.

*Please register at Registration Form by December 12
(Fri)17：00.
https://gremind.grips.ac.jp/form/0002/the-103rd-grips-f
orum-on-15th-december/
＜We will close registration after the participation limit is reached. We will inform you if the limit is
reached.＞

*If you can’t open the registration form, please send an email to gripsforum@grips.ac.jp with your name, affiliation, job title, phone number or email address without changing the title.

*If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car information (type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus entry permission.

Date: Monday, 15　December, 2014
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS　Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor
Speaker: Mr. Hideto Nakahara, Member of the Board, Senior Executive Vice President, Global Strategy & Business Development, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo
Theme: “Evolution of business models of Sogo-Shosha”

Language: Japanese (English simultaneous interpretation
provided)
Fee: Free

Abstract:
The former Mitsubishi, which was established just after the Meiji restoration and grew alongside Japan as it developed in the period prior to the Second World War, was dissolved at the end of the war 75 years after it was founded. The sales department of the former Mitsubishi was reestablished in 1954 as Mitsubishi Corporation, and since then its operations have included expanding overseas markets for Japanese products, developing and importing overseas resources and energy, and developing domestic and overseas food supply networks. Now that Japan has matured as a country, Mitsubishi Corporation is taking globalization forward and seeking new business models while expanding its operations in developing countries.

Speakers’ Profile:
April 2011 Member of the Board, Senior Executive
Vice President, Global Strategy & Business Development, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo
April 2009 Executive Vice President, Global
Strategy & Regional Development, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo
April 2007 Executive Vice President, Chief
Representative for China, Mitsubishi Corporation, Beijing
April 2006 Senior Vice President, Chief
Representative for China, Mitsubishi Corporation, Beijing
April 2004 Senior Vice President, Regional CEO
for Europe, Mitsubishi Corporation, London
April 2003 Managing Director, Mitsubishi
Corporation (UK) PLC, London
April 2001 General Manager, Ferrous Raw
Materials Business Unit, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo
January 2000 General Manager, Coal & Nuclear Fuel
Department, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo
August 1987 Coal Department, Mitsubishi Corporation,
Tokyo
May 1984 Mitsubishi Canada Ltd., Vancouver
July 1982 Mitsubishi International Corporation,
New York
July 1977 Coking Coal Department, Mitsubishi
Corporation, Tokyo
August 1975 Portuguese Trainee, Sao Paulo, Brazil
April 1973 Joined Mitsubishi Corporation (Nuclear
Fuel Department), Tokyo, Japan

*** GRIPS Forum ***
Since its establishment in 1997, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), as the only graduate school in Japan specializing in policy research, has promoted education and research on a wide range of policy issues.
Utilizing our vast policy network, this Forum invites leaders from various fields including government, academia and business, as well as staff from our own faculty, to deliver lectures on current policy concerns.
The Forum welcomes attendance of GRIPS faculty and students as well as participants from outside the university. Simultaneous interpretation will be available (Japanese/English).

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For registration and inquiries, please contact: Ms. Iso

gripsforum@grips.ac.jp
http://www.grips.ac.jp/
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