Day 1 – Oct 1st

8:30am PDT – 8:30pm PDT

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8:30-9:00am: Our first day begins with the Opening Ceremonies including Ms. Sandi Hendry, Dr. Carin Holroyd, Dr. Mark Wallin, Ms. Yuko Shimizu, and Consul General Mr. Takashi Hatori.

9:00-9:30am: We then have Dr. Christian Tagsold speaking on Akiralympics – Re-examining Tokyo 1940, 1964, and 2020/21, followed by a question and answer period (9:30-10:00am).

Opening Ceremonies and Keynote Speaker

After this we have 5 panels:

10:30-12:00pm: Panel: 1 Japanese Language Education & History with Chair N. Ota, Motoki Long-Nozawa, Akiko Sharpe, and Jacob Kovalio.

Panel 1: Japanese Language Education & History

12:30-2:00pm: Panel 2: Geography and Tourism with Chair David Edgington, Dr. A. Hashimoto, and Dr. Natasha Fox.

Panel 2: Geography and Tourism

3:00-4:30pm: Panel 3A: Japan and Philosophy with Chair J. Goulding, Mr. John Z. M. Vintila, Ms. Lakshmi Aysola, and Mr. Christopher Satoor.

Panel 3A: Japan and Philosophy

Panel 3B: The Changing Footprint of Canada-Japan Trade and Commerce – Canadian Chamber of Commerce in  Japan with Paul Pryce and Mark Raymond.

Panel 3B – The changing footprint of Canada-Japan trade and commerce

4:45-6:00pm: Panel 4: Gender(1) with Chair T. Waldichuk, Professor Mark Crawford, Dr. Yuko Shibata, and Ms. Erika Schestak.

Panel 4: Gender 1

4:45-5:45pm: Panel 5: Indo-Pacific Security Round Table 1: Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision: Balancing Accommodation and Security with Professor Yoichio Sato, Jonathan Berkshire Miller, Professor Akiko Fukushima, and Stephen Nagy.

Panel 5: Indo-Pacific Security Round Table 1

After a short break, day 1 wraps up with a Social Gathering using Gather.Town.