Japan-Canada High-Level Dialogue on Risk Governance
On February 6, 2014, Ambassador Okuda hosted the “Japan-Canada High-Level Dialogue on Risk Governance”, a special session of the Conference on Democracy, Diversity, Disasters: A Japan-Canada Policy Dialogue on Intersectionaloty and the Challenge of Contemporary Risk Governance.
Ms. Akiko Domoto, Former Governor of Chiba, gave a keynote presentation on “Disaster and Gender- Lessons from Japan’s March 11, 2011”. Chaired by H.E. Leonard Edwards, former Ambassador to Japan, this was followed by a lively exchange of views and a question and answer session from a standpoint of gender. Mr. Joseph Caron, former Ambassador to Japan and Dr. Mari Osawa, Professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, as well as academics from Japan and Canada participated in the discussion.
Among the guests were the Honourable Mobina S.B. Jaffer, Senator, Mr. François Guimond, Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada, Mr. Shawn Tupper, Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Safety Canada and Ms. Susan Gregson, Assistant Deputy Minister, Asia Pacific, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. The event was attended by about 40 people, many of whom had attended the conference hosted by the University of Ottawa on February 5th and 6th.
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Reception held after “Japan-Canada High Level Dialogue”
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Mr. Hamana, chef at the Official Residence of Japan in Canada, making sushi at the reception |
