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ᵲᶆᶃᴾᵖᵎᶒᶆᴾᵟᶌᶌᶇᶔᶃᶐᶑᵿᶐᶗᴾᵱᶗᶋᶎᶍᶑᶇᶓᶋᴾᶍᶄᴾᵡᶆᶓᶀᶓᴾᵳᶌᶇᶔᶃᶐᶑᶇᶒᶗ How Can Asian Culture, Science and Technology Create a Life-Centered World in the Post COVID-19 Era? in collaboration with The Japanese Association of The Club of Rome (online world-wide) Info & Registration : https://www.chubu.jp/80th/news/8811/ Wednesday, 14th October 2020 14:00-16:30pm (Japan) , 7:00-9:30 (Central Europe) Tuesday, 13th October 2020 22:00-0:30 (US West Coast) Host:Chubu University, Japan Co-Organizer:The Japanese Association of The Club of Rome Chunichi Newspaper Cooperation:Asian Development Bank Institute, Japan Association of Human and Environment Symbiosis, The Engineering Association of Japan, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) The 80th Anniversary Symposium of Chubu University How Can Asian Culture, Science and Technology Create a Life-Centered World in the Post COVID-19 Era? 20th century ended nominally but the world has not escaped from the problematique created by the Western homogeneous philosophy and economy centered paradigm. 20th century was successful in increasing mass economic prosperity, being led by a western model, typically by the “superior” fundamental capitalism. But it has left the unsolved problematique such as income extreme discrepancy, resource and energy wasteful consumption, disposals, climate emergency and unilateralism. The people in the world suffer from its negative legacies even more seriously. Now it would be the time for Asia and Japan to rescue the world by introducing more tolerance to the others and by understanding us, the humans, being allowed only as an existence within the great nature system. Japanese culture, science and technology are backed up with quite unique characteristics. In this symposium, gathering world leading scientists, engineers and humanity experts in and around Chubu University and inviting eight members of The Club of Rome, their fusions will find out new principles to remake the future world to be more harmonious and better for everyone. Program [1]Opening Tripartite Talk:Mindset in Post COVID-19 Era ・Atsuo Iiyoshi (Chairman of Board and Chancellor of Chubu University) ・Tomoyo Nonaka (Executive Committee Member of The Club of Rome,President of GAIA Initiative) ・Yoshitsugu Hayashi (President of The Japanese Association of The Club of Rome) [2]Keynote Speech:“Come On! From Planetary Crisis to Balance of Life” ・Ernst von Weizsaecker (Honorary President of The Club of Rome) [3]Round Table: Contribution of Japanese and Asian Culture, Science and Technology to Forming a Cooperative Society in Post Covid-19 Era ~ SDGs Japan which can be a bridge between the West and the East ~ 【Coordinators】 ・Tomoyo Nonaka (Executive Committee Member of The Club of Rome,President of GAIA Initiative) ・Ayumu Iio (Editorial Writer of Chunichi Newspaper) 【Panelists】 ・Hisashi Yamamoto (Director of Frontier Research Institute, Chubu University,Person of Cultural Merits) “Ethnicity and Science and Technology” ・Reiko Kuroda (Professor of Chubu University, Full Member of The Club of Rome,Ex-Vice President of ICSU) “Science and society, and SDGs in post COVID-19 era” ・Chandran Nair (Executive Committee member of The Club of Rome, Founder and CEO of GIFT(Global Institute for Tomorrow), Hong Kong) “Consumptionomics: Asia’ s Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet in post COVID-19 Era” ・Masashi Tsujimoto (Vice President of Chubu University) “Creation of Japanese Philosophy - from the viewpoint of Edo Era” ・Hiroshi Komiyama (President of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Full Member of The Club of Rome, Ex-President of The University of Tokyo) “Japan as An Advanced Country with full of Emerging Issues and The Platinum Society” ・Werner Rothengatter (Emeritus Professor of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, Ex-President of World Conference on Transport Research Society) “Post COVID-19 Mobility and Logistics” ・Takehisa Yaegashi (President of Cordia, Founding Chief Engineer of TOYOTA Prius Hi-Brid Engine) “Moral Hazard in Engine Performance Inspection by Automobile Industries and The Way for Recovery” 【Commentators】 ・Yoichi Kaya (Honorary Member of The Club of Rome, Ex-Full member during late 80th and early 90th working with Saburo Okita, a founding member of Club of Rome) ・Koichiro Matsuura (Honorary Member of The Club of Rome, Ex-Secretary General of UNESCO) ・Hisae Nakanishi (Dean of Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University) [4]Concluding Remarks ・Osamu Ishihara (President of Chubu University) Profile Atsuo Iiyoshi Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker Chairman of Board and Chancellor of Honorary President of The Club of Rome Chubu University Prof. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker has been Professor Atsuo Iiyoshi is currently a chairman Co-President of the Club of Rome between of the Board of Trustees at Chubu University 2012 and 2018. At the beginning of his career, Educational Corporation and also a Chancellor Ernst served as professor and director of of Chubu University. several universities and institutes, such as the He has been known as one of the pioneers of UN Centre for Science and Technology for plasma physics and nuclear fusion. After his PhD from Keio Development. In 1991, he became founding President of the University in Japan, he spent some time in Princeton Plasma Physics Wuppertal Institute, which developed into a leading think tank on Lab in the U.S. and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in UK in energy efficiency, material flows and climate policy. From 1998 to mid-1960s. After professorship at Kyoto University where he was 2005 he was Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the involved in Heliotron D and E, Prof. Iiyoshi became the first Director Committees on Globalization and the Environment. He then served General of National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) in Japan in as Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and 1989, where the LHD (Large Helical Device) was constructed and Management at the University of California. In 2007, he was has been successfully operated until now. In 1999 he moved to appointed Co-Chair (with Ashok Khosla) of UNEP’ s International Chubu University as the university President, and later as the Resource Panel. Chancellor served there for more than 21 years. In 2015 Professor Ernst is lead author of three Reports to the Club of Rome: Factor Iiyoshi was awarded The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays Four (1995), Limits to Privatization (2005), Factor Five (2009) and with Neck Ribbon, one of the most honorable awards given by the Come On! (2017). He lives in Emmendingen with his wife Christine, Emperor of Japan, for his long and meritorious services in President of Ecoropa, and has five children. academics. Tomoyo Nonaka Chandran Nair Executive Committee Member of The Executive Committee Member of The Club of Rome Club of Rome, Founder and CEO of GIFT(Global Institute for Tomorrow) Tomoyo Nonaka is Chair and Founder of GAIA Initiative, formed in 2007 as a non-profit Chandran Nair is a Founder and CEO of GIFT, organization. She advocates a shift in the core an independent pan-Asian think tank based in values of society and undertakes various Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. He was forms of educational activities and supports chairman of Environmental Resources programs for corporations. Tomoyo formerly served as Chair and Management (ERM) in Asia Pacific until 2004, establishing the Chief Executive Officer of Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., in addition to company as Asia’ s leading environmental consultancy. director or advisor for various large Japanese corporations such as Chandran is a member of WEF’ s Global Agenda Council on Asahi Brewery, Mitsui Fudosan and others. She currently serves as a Governance for Sustainability and Experts Forum. He is a Senior Member of the Advisory Committee for CRDS (Center for Research Fellow of CIMB ASEAN Research Institute (CARI), as well as a and Development Strategy Japan Science and Technology Agency) Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is also an Advisor to the and is a Member of several government panels. Tomoyo is a visiting Royal Government of Cambodia. scholar at the East West Center – University of Hawaii. In the ‘80s Chandran has served as Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong and ‘90s she was a journalist and anchorwoman for NHK, Japan’ s University of Science and Technology and the Lee Kuan Yew School national television network and TV Tokyo. Tomoyo earned a Masters of Public Policy in Singapore and is a former Advisor to ORIX degree in Journalism from the Sophia University in Japan. Corporation and a former member of the Stakeholder Advisory Council for BASF, the world’ s largest chemical company. Yoshitsugu Hayashi Hiroshi Komiyama President of The Japanese Association President of Mitsubishi Research of The Club of Rome, Professor, Center Institute, Full Member of The Club of for Sustainable Development and Global Rome, Ex-President of The University of Smart City, Chubu University Tokyo Prof. Yoshitsugu Hayashi is Emeritus Prof. Hiroshi Komiyama is a Japanese Professor of Nagoya University and Professor academic, scientist and engineer, best known of Chubu University, Japan. He is also for inventing the “Platinum Society” concept, President of WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research which serves as the foundation of environmental policy for the Society) which attracts more about 1,500 researchers and present Japanese Government. “The Platinum Society suggest a practitioners in all modes of transport