The IJCC is delighted to cohost this event with AHK Japan (German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan)!

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In cooperation with CBI Partners Co., Ltd. & The Professional University of Electric Mobility Systems, we invite you to the upcoming event with the title "LEAVE THE BEATEN TRACKS OF RECRUITMENT - Reshaping Japan’s Education System" on September 24.

Foreign companies consider Japan’s education system somewhat ineffective because a.) students have to be heavily trained on the job after joining companies and b.) the top students are not even interested in working for foreign companies. In the war for talent, it becomes more and more important to find new directions and to invest in the people who will shape your future. This event offers you food for thought and access to students and solutions. 

After Prof. Shimizu’s presentation, a high-ranking panel of Japanese and European experts from the automotive industry and business will discuss education, technology, innovation and how to develop young students to become engaged and motivated engineers and leaders in a global environment.

CBI Partners Co., Ltd., is an international operative consulting firm that works on M&A, restructurings, and interim management and has a strong practice in Human Resource Management and Top Leadership Assessment. They are supporting Prof. Shimizu in his approach to establish a new university!

Event Details

Tuesday, September 24,  2024 | 11:30 - 14:00 (JST)

The Tokyo EDITION, Toranomon | Meeting Studio, 2nd Fl.
Kamiyacho Trust Towerr, 4-1-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001 [Access]

IJCC members: 4,400 yen / For non-members: 8,800 yen

- Registration Deadline: September 13 | 12:00 JST
- Food and drinks: Lunch will be served
- Expected participants: 60
- Event Language: English

Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/uYfbABWg1F

Speakers & Panelists

Prof. H. Shimizu 

President of Professional University of Electric Mobility Systems

Prof. Shimizu is one the leading engineers in the field of E-Mobility in Japan. About 40 years ago, when the automotive industry was not focusing on EVs at all, he already saw the potential of EVs to solve environmental issues and developed concepts which are now slowly being realized by global car producers. After retiring from his professorship at Keio University, he decided to utilize all his experience and vision to start a new university in Yamagata, which is focused on E-Mobility and which gives global firms an excellent opportunity to connect to talented students and to a dynamic research environment. Listen to 40 years of academic and applied EV know-how. Only recently, Prof. Shimizu was honored with a prize, the “Yaramaika Award” by the SUZUKI FOUNDATION for his dedicated, outstanding, successful, pioneering work for the EV revolution. 

Dr. Rodrigo Gonzales 

Representative Director of the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network 

Dr. Rodrigo González is a respected corporate advisor to some of Japan’s most prominent business leaders. He specializes in briefing corporate boards on economic and geopolitical conditions within the APAC region, offering invaluable insights into their potential impact across industries. 

Shoichi Tanaka  

President of Schaeffler Japan Co., Ltd. 

Mr. Tanaka is an excellent cross-border manager who has implemented global strategies for international suppliers in Japan throughout his career. He has deep insight into what kind of organisational set-ups work to be successful in Japan and what kind of managers are required to facilitate such success will enrich the podium discussion. As an international Japanese Top Executive, he does have clear expectations into what kind of young leaders Japan would need. 

Shuji Tsuruyama 

President of TE South-East Asia
Former VP Sales Audi 

Mr. Tsuruyama has more than 30 years of experience working in international teams and growing up in and outside of Japan in different education systems helped him to develop a fine sense for how an education system can determine how you think and act.  

As president of TE South-East Asia, he is utilizing his experiences today to guide international teams to work effectively together today and he considers a change in the Japanese Education system as crucial to support the competitiveness of the Japanese Industry 

Dr. Masao Nagai 

Prof. Emeritus at Tokyo University of agriculture and technology
Former President of JARI (Japan Automobile Research Institute) 

With Professor Nagai we have a panelist whose history connects him closest possible to academic education, the industry and cross-border science as he also worked and lived several years in Germany! We are keen to listen to his experiences of how different countries are connecting education, science and practical work-life and how he thinks about the revolution which Prof. Shimizu is planning with his new university. Prof. Nagai also helps positions in Aachen and Braunschweig.      

Chiaki Kataoka 

Senior Partner and Head of HR and OD Practice of Cross-Border- Solutions K.K 

Ms. Kataoka has worked for 30 years on Cross-Border operations of global automotive companies in the area of R&D projects and sales marketing. First on operational tasks and later as a board member for the Japanese operations of the global players. Since 2010, she has focused on human resources and organisational development at CBI, delivering results in challenging culture-building and turnaround situations. She works on how to create environments which encourage talented people to stay in companies and how company and management culture matters while we experience increasingly difficult-to-grasp country culture in Japan.