North America-Japan Partnership in a New Global Era

This event aims to explore innovative approaches to strengthening North America–Japan partnership amid profound global change. Join us for a keynote address by Dr. Roseann Runte on Intercultural Exchange as a Path to Creativity and Innovation, and a panel discussion titled Creating Foundations Toward the Next 100 Years featuring a distinguished group of leaders from Canada and the United States. Through their individual experiences across Canada, Japan, and the United States, the speakers will discuss strategies for reinforcing values-based partnerships within societies and among the three countries, as well as brainstorm new ideas and opportunities for trilateral collaboration that will strengthen relations over the coming century.

This event is co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation, Toronto and International House of Japan, in partnership with American Friends of the International House of Japan and Japan Society Canada.

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Keynote Speaker:

• Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte, Recipient of the Order of Canada, author of the new publication Renshi, and past President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation
  

Panelists:

• Dr. Annika Culver - Professor of Japanese History and Director of the Prince Takamado Japan Center at University of Alberta

• Dr. Frank Feltens - Susan Brotman Chief Curator at the Seattle Art Museum

• Dr. Philip Lipscy - Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto

• Dr. Tom Mason - Executive Director of the U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation

• Justin Rockefeller - Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Avenera