06/07/2015
Central and Local Governance in Japan and the UK: Lessons from Okinawa and Scotland
Date: 22 July 2015 from 6.30pm Venue: The Swedenborg Society, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH A Japan Foundation, London event (promoted by JLGC) The coral reefs, white sand beaches and sub-tropical rainforests of Okinawa, a chain of islands stretching over 600 miles of ocean between Southwest Japan and Taiwan, seem a distant world from […]
06/07/2015
Symposium for “Revitalisation of Fukushima after East-Japan Earthquake”
Thursday 16 July 2015, from 13:20-16:00 Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Mr Masao Uchibori, Governor of Fukuoka Prefecture Prof. Shinichi Ohnuma, Prof. Peter Sammonds, and Dr Hidekazu Kurebayashi (UCL) Registration at Eventbrite. We are pleased to announce that we will host a half-day symposium for “Revitalisation of Fukushima after […]
06/07/2015
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 2:30 – 4:50pm Ambassadors Bloomsbury Hotel, 12 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0HX Tokyo has been driving the Japanese economy by leveraging its huge consumer market, a wealth of talent, and highly developed infrastructure. Using the special economic zone system of the national government, Tokyo will be transformed into a business […]
02/07/2015
Research Seminar: Japanese Inward Investment Journeys to North East England
A seminar jointly organised by the Institute for Local Governance and the Council for Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR) Teikyo University, Durham, Friday 10 July 2015, 9.30 – 13.00 In 2013, construction of a major new manufacturing plant began in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, giving an immediate initial boost to the local labour market. […]
02/07/2015
Invest in Japan: Mie Business Seminar and Exchange Meetings
Monday 6th July 2015 15:00 (registration from 14:30) to 17:10 followed by Networking Reception Embassy of Japan 101-104 Piccadilly, London W1J 7JT Located in the middle of Japan, Mie prefecture is an area of technology and manufacturing that lies along the main highway connecting east and west Japan. Mie prefecture is an industry and innovation hub where […]
02/07/2015
Japan’s cities collaborating to change the world
Amid a flurry of concerted efforts to promote urban inclusion at December’s COP 21 climate change conference in Paris, this week the C40 Cities launched their report Powering Climate Action: Cities as Global Changemakers at the London offices of Arup. The report analyses the actions cities must take to influence climate change and the typologies […]
29/06/2015
Growth, Governance and Greying – OECD LEED in Manchester
Last week JLGC researchers visited Manchester to attend the 11th Annual Meeting of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships, which focused on the theme of how local leadership can provide more inclusive growth. The OECD Programme on Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) was set up in 1982 to advise governments and places on “the creation of […]
24/06/2015
In 2014 CLAIR published a Directory (Japanese only) which mapped JLGC’s responsible countries’ capital cities governance and their participation in transnational city networks. We have now updated this (also in Japanese) to provide an update on London’s deep involvement with and initiation of a ‘5 C’s’ of city networks, as part of its ‘globally fluent’ […]
24/06/2015
Japan’s City Networks and Connecting Healthy Cities
Ahead of this week’s World Health Organisation (WHO) European Healthy Cities Network annual conference in Kuopio, Finland, the City Leadership Initiative of University College London has published a discussion paper for the event, looking at the role of health in city diplomacy. In considering the improvement of leadership and participatory health governance by cities, the […]
23/06/2015
JLGC was delighted to be invited to support this year’s MJ Growth Agenda conference in central London, following the support given to our own events recently with the MJ’s Michael Burton and Heather Jameson both chairing our last two seminars in the capital. Though aimed at UK local authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships, the event […]
