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Windsfrom Japan Issue No. 16, January 2002 WINDS FROM JAPAN Licensing Executives Society Japan NEW YEAR GREETINGS By Masataka Hashimoto A happy New Year to all members! It seems only While I am personally looking forward to yesterday that we celebrated the opening of the new seeing many members participate in this Conference, century, but now we are already in its second year. I encourage particularly the participation of LES Japan members, since this is an occasion to deepen This is an extraordinary year for LES Japan for professional knowledge as well as an occasion to two reasons. One, this year we celebrate LES Japan's meet old and new friends, strengthening personal ties. 30th anniversary, and two, the LES International Conference 2002 will be held in Osaka from 7 April About two years ago, when I became President to 10 April. As the members may be aware, it has of LES Japan succeeding Mr. Yamagami, I proposed already been 17 years since a LES International the following points to be considered in planning for Conference was held in Japan, and as the host society, our Society's future program: (1) Selection of I hope to make this Conference a huge success by attractive subjects, (2) Efficient activity, (3) A healthy dedicating LESJ’s efforts and by gathering a large financial status, and (4) the 2002 LESI Conference in number of participants from other chapter societies. Osaka. I asked for the member's cooperation in the preparation for this Conference, so that we could Since we have been able to establish the make it successful. If I were asked whether such Organizing Committee in charge of preparation for points had been fulfilled in the actual activity of our the LES International Conference at an early stage, Society so far, I would say yes, we are making we are confident that we have prepared an attractive progress, although a step-by-step one. I firmly and well-balanced program, comfortable believe that this was only made possible thanks to the accommodations and attractive optional tours, as efforts of individual members of our Society. announced to all members of LES International in the September issue of les Nouvelles. All that remains The steady increase of the number of our is the participation of a large numbers of members Society's members, which is expected to surpass 600, both from Japan and from other chapter Societies. the increase of information flow to and from outside Have you already registered? See you at The 2002 LESI Conference in Osaka April 7-10, 2002 1 our Society, the increase of requests, expectations activity of the Pan Asia Committee through an toward our Society, all these facts underline our increased activity of the East Asian Working Group. progress. I also feel a heightened presence of our Society in the relationship with other Japanese In February this year, Mr. Chikao Fukuda will organizations. become President of our Society. It is my hope that under his leadership, the LES International Turning our eyes to the relationship with LES Conference will be successful, and as I stated earlier, International, they have shown their intention of give since this year's fall the 30th anniversary of our more weight to activities in Asia, by the resolution at Society will be celebrated, I would like to take this the Delegates Meeting in November last year at Palm opportunity for us to thank our predecessors for their Desert in California, U.S. to establish a new Pan contribution to the LES Japan, and to make further Asian Committee. Mr. Kim, President of LES efforts to contribute to our Society's growth. Korea was elected Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Kurose, Vice President of our Society, and Mr. Let me conclude my greetings with the Ancheta of LES Philippines were elected Vice message: SEE YOU ALL IN OSAKA SHORTLY. Chairman of the Committee. While our Society has ------------------------------------------- been making large contributions toward the activity Past President, LES Japan of LES International, I am hoping to contribute to the Japan Ethanol Co., Auditor 2002 LESI Conference in Osaka ---Profiles of Japanese Speakers--- position as Senior Advisor of IBM Japan, Ltd. in By Jinzo Fujino December 1999. He is active as officer and/or director in many other organizations, including Preparation for an international conference is Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic usually laborious and time-consuming. One of Development, HOYA Corporation, Mitsui O.S.K. the difficulties is the arrangement of speakers. Lines, Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd., Keio University, LES Japan has been successful in this and International University of Japan. respect. Largely owing to the labor of the Mr. Shiina holds degrees in mechanical Programming Committee, we were able to engineering from Keio University (1951) and finalize the guest speakers who are outstanding Bucknell University (1953). He received the in business circles and academia. Blue Ribbon Medal Award in May 1990, the Here is a brief introduction of each Japanese Trade Award in October 1994, and the Grand guest speaker and a topic to be presented for the Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 2002 LESI Conference in Osaka. November 2000, all from the Japanese Government. At the Monday Morning Plenary (PL I), Mr. Takeo SHIINA Shiina will touch upon the changing role of corporate strategy and intellectual property rights Mr. SHIINA is ex-president and chairman of in the age of IT. IBM Japan. He took the helm of IBM Japan, which is the largest as a manufacturer of Shosaku YASUI computers in Japan, for 18 years. He is currently Senior Advisor of IBM Japan, Ltd. and Mr. YASUI is currently CEO of Teijin Limited, Chairman of IBM Japan Advisory Council. He which is one of the largest manufacturers of has spent most of his career with IBM Japan, fibers, plastics, and medical products. He was Ltd., having joined the company in 1953. He was born on Jan. 16, 1935 in Kyoto, Japan. appointed as a board member in 1962 and held Graduated from Kyoto University, Mr. Yasui directorial positions in manufacturing, personnel, joined Teijin Limited in 1957. At Teijin, he has marketing and corporate headquarters before supervised various business units such as the being elected to President in 1975 and to Overseas Project Dept. (1981) and the Films Chairman in 1993. He assumed his current Sales Dept. (1982). In 1988, he assumed the 2 position of director and president & CEO at Michihiro MATSUMOTO P.T.Teijin-Indonesia-Fiber-Corp. (JV). He returned to the headquarters of Teijin itself in Mr. MATSUMOTO is a well-known professor 1992 and his promotion since then was and prolific writer in the art of trans-cultural outstanding. In 1992, in his capacity as a board communication. He was born in Osaka in 1940 member, he supervised the New Business and graduated from Kansei Gaku-in University in Development Group and System Business Kobe in 1962 with a B.A. in commerce. He has Development Division. In 1993, he became been active as an advocate for the art of debates Managing Director and, in 1994, Senior and a moving force behind the Inter-Cultural Managing Director. During the period when he English Exchange (ICEE), an English language was managing director, he supervised the Film cross-cultural communication skill test. He is Group & Information Systems & Recording now a professor at Honolulu University. His Media Business Division. In 1997, he was wide-ranging career includes teaching English elected to President. Mr. Yasui has been through thought-provoking methods and Chairman of the Japan-Thailand Trade and publication of more than one hundred books. He Economic Committee since 2000, and Vice is strongly committed to a spiritual approach to President of the Japan Chemical Fibers English learning called “Eigodo” (English as a Association since 2001. way of life), which is associated with traditional At the Tuesday Morning Plenary (PL III), Mr. Japanese martial arts and cultural pursuits. Yasui will cover the topics of international At the Wednesday Morning Plenary (PL V), alliance (I/A) and technology transfer (T/T) in Mr. MATSUMOTO will talk on the interesting view of operations by subsidiaries abroad; topic of "Japanese Legal Mindedness" and transactions of equipment supply and licensing; analyze the Japanese way of legal thinking which the policy making process within the Teijin can be categorized as being: 1) Ant-thinking - Group; key factors in doing business in Asia; and reactive, 2) Bee-thinking - active, 3) characteristics of Japanese-style T/T. Spider-thinking - proactive, and 4) Scorpion-thinking - retroactive. Masaya HIJIKIGAWA Mr. Hijikigawa is well known as a pioneer of Heita KAWAKATSU liquid-crystal display products. He is now corporate executive director & group general Mr. KAWAKATSU is a well-known author and manager of Display Technology Development professor of comparative studies in economic Group of Sharp Corporation. After joining history. He was born in Kyoto in 1948, Sharp in 1969, he has made a significant received D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, contribution to the development of TFT color U.K. in 1985. He was Professor at Waseda LCDs and showed a great leadership in University, Tokyo (1990-98) and now is establishing the technology for their mass Professor of Economic History at the production. He received the Special Recognition International Research Center for Japanese Award from the Society for Information Display Studies, Kyoto. His publications in English in 1995, and the Achievement Award from the include "International Competition in Cotton Japanese Liquid Crystal Society in 2000. Goods in the late Nineteenth Century", in W. At the Tuesday Morning Plenary (PL III), Mr. Fischer et al. (eds.), “The Emergence of a World Hijikigawa will focus on the world of liquid Economy, 1500-1914” (1986), "The Lancashire crystal display.
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