11/09/2020
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Title: Career Discovery & Exchange 2020
To register: https://forms.gle/KAFUBtXsvBFVE2LZ9
Organizer: MSS Platform by Nourish Japan LLC
Registration fee: Free of charge.
Registration deadline: September 30, 2020.
Event media ZOOM meeting.
The event will be conducted in English with some Japanese translation.
The only registered applicant will be provided event link via email.
Are you a non-Japanese youth interested in developing careers utilizing your Japanese skills? Are you a Japanese student who wants to explore your potentials in the global job market? Then this is the event you are looking for.
In this online event, you will not only meet speakers from five different countries story-telling their global experiences and interesting career paths but also youths from all over the world who want to share their career plans and dreams with you.
Moreover, you will learn the current international job market in Japan, Japanese learning resources online, and required skills to be an entrepreneur. This brief event and recommended resources may assist you to expand your potentials upon your current efforts.
We are Nourish Japan based in Ehime, Japan and this is a kick-off event to promote our new service called “MSS Platform”.
As a youth professional service, we support youth to think about futures, help career decision making of global careerists. Our ultimate aim is to develop human resources (Japanese and non-Japanese) who will become future bridges between Japan and the other countries. This event is aiming to achieve some of the SDGs, “decent work and economic growth”, “quality education” and “partnership for the goals”.
:
1) Learn about the current international job market in Japan.
2) Learn about Japanese learning resources available in different countries and on-line.
3) Learn about soft/hard skills to start-up own business (from the case for Japanese entrepreneur in Vietnam).
4) Career visions of youths living in different countries and regions.
:
1. Dr Nur A. Khondaker
Assistant FAO Representative (Programme)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Bangladesh
Executive member. Japan University Alumni Association, Bangladesh (JUAAB)
Dr Nur Khondaker completed his PhD from the Ehime University in 1998. He worked as a Visiting Research Fellow with the Japan International Research Centre for Agricultural Science (JIRCAS), October 2001 to September 2003, later on, he researched with JIRCAS as a JSPS post-doctoral fellow, November 2003- December 2005. Also worked as a JSPS BRIDGE Fellow with JIRCAS in 2018. He worked as a farming systems agronomist Researcher with the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute and research management with the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council. Since 2006, he has been working with the FAO Bangladesh first as a National research Grants Administrator and now as Assistant FAO Representative (programme) where he is heading the program unit of the FAO Bangladesh. He has been working on agriculture, food and nutrition security, agro-environmental project formulation, policy making, disaster risk reduction and management. He lived in Japan for about 9 years and working for the last more than 30 years with the government, international Organization and UN Organization.
2. Dr Nobuya Haraguchi
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Chief, Research and Industrial Policy Advice Division
He manages UNIDO’s research and policy advisory functions, which include the publication of UNIDO‘s flagship reports, assessment of SDG 9 in developing countries, and implementation of policy projects. He has published widely on structural change, patterns of manufacturing and industrial policy. Recent publications include articles in journals, such as Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (2019 and 2018), World Development (2017), and chapter contributions to key reference books, such as Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation, edited by Monga and Lin (2019) and Efficiency, Finance and Varieties of Industrial Policy, edited by Noman and Stiglitz (2016). Before joining UNIDO, he taught macroeconomics at St. John’s University in the United States.
3. Ryotaro Sakamoto & Monika Zachaj
Ryotaro Sakamoto
Co-founder of Warsaw Japanese Language School
Born in Takayama, Gifu in 1986. BA in International Education, English Education, Japanese Language Education at Shizuoka University. A scholarship student at the University of Nebraska, US (2007). A scholarship student at Gomel State University, Belarus (2008), MA in Diplomacy at Collegium Civitas, Poland. Currently actively engaged in promoting Japanese language and culture in Central Eastern Europe. Author of many publications in Poland and Japan concerning Japanese-Polish relations. General Secretary of the Japanese Language Teacher Association in Poland. Apart from Japanese, he holds the Japanese taiko drum and has many concerts in Poland and abroad. He has calligraphy classes as well. His recent passions are Sumi-e (Japanese ink painting) and wood crafting.
Monika Zachaj
Co-founder of Warsaw Japanese Language School
Born in Otwock, Poland in 1985. Winner of the Japanese Language Speech Contest in Poland (2003). MA in Japanese Studies at Warsaw University. A scholarship student at Shizuoka University (2007). After starting a Japanese language teaching part-time job at Warsaw University, shortly after graduating together with her husband founded Warsaw Japanese Language School in 2011, 9 years later school counts over 350 students and probably the biggest Japanese language school in Poland. Ex-president of the Japanese MEXT Scholarship Student Alumni Club. Used to train aikido, member of Urasenke Association (tea ceremony), in her free time plays shamisen.
4. Yuya Arashima
JETRO Ho Chi Minh Office Overseas Coordinator (Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Food)
STAR KITCHEN CEO & Founder
Japan New Business Council Global Entrepreneur Special Award In 2013-2019
Graduated from Keio University Faculty of Law. Worked at IBM Business Consulting as a management consultant. Vietnam’s first Japanese cooking studio: "STAR KITCHEN" founded Appointed as "Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Coordinator" at JETRO Ho Chi Minh Office. Japan New Business Council Global Entrepreneur Special Award In 2013. In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the main business was to develop cooking classes, Western confectionery manufacturing and sales, and cafe management for Vietnamese customers and has more than 200,000 followers on Facebook. Currently, it has a store in Takashimaya, Ho Chi Minh City, and supplies products such as Starbucks, Seven-Eleven, and Family Mart. Launched a marketing business in 2018 to support Japanese retailers, manufacturers, restaurants, etc. in Vietnam. Main customers are Asahi Kasei, Panasonic, Kewpie, Takashimaya, Paloma, etc.
:
17:00 ~ 17:10 Welcome address
Dr Michiko Izumitani
President of Nourish Japan, LLC.
Program-Specific Associate Professor of Institute for International Relations, Ehime University
17:10 ~ 18:15 Storytelling by the speakers from Bangladesh, Austria, Poland and Vietnam.
18:15 ~ 18:30 Q&A session
18:30 ~ 19:20 Group discussion
19:20 ~ 19:30 Closing
Individuals who are interested in Global careers cordially invited in this event.
