Professor Tony Chapman will be making his fourth visit to Japan this March to continue working with colleagues, Professors Shibukawa, Takatani and Nakajima on a long standing comparative study of Japanese and North East England social enterprises. This work, which began in 2007 is exploring the ways that social enterprise can work in very different cultural, policy and economic environments.

Tony will also be forging new relationships with academics while in Japan to explore new possibilities for comparative research on foreign direct investment in the UK and Japan, and also to develop new comparative research on corporate social responsibility programmes by UK and Japanese companies.

During his week in Tokyo, he will visit Profesor Yoshinori Isagai, Executive Director,  Keio Research Institute; Professor Kanji Tanimoto, School of Commerce, Waseda University; Professor Motohide Takeda, Department of Economics, Teikyo University; and Professor Hiroshi Ishida, Institute of Social Sciences, Tokyo University.

Professor Chapman will be visiting Lori Henderson at the British Chamber of Commerce Japan (BCCJ) to continue their conversation on the experiences of UK firms which have established themselves in Japan and will attend an event at the Tokyo Hilton, Shinjuku, addressed by Governor Masuzoe on city business strategy.  It will also be the cherry blossom viewing season when Tokyo is at its most beautiful.