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> June 2, 2011
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> Lecture on Bringing Japan to the Indian Market
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> Lecture Announcement: "Sushi and More, Anyone?: Bringing Japan's Design,
> Food, and Contents Approach to the Indian Market"
>
> Location: Japan
> Lecture Date: 2011-06-30 (in 28 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-06-01
> Announcement ID: 185612
> Date: 2011, June 30
> Time: 17:30~
> Place: 10-301, Building 10, Sophia University
>
> In the last few years, Japan has started to seriously consider India as
> one of the most important emerging markets. All major economies of the
> world have also targeted India, and Japanese companies are seeing
> competition from all sides. The Government of Japan and private enterprise
> have initiated various projects in infrastructure as well as soft
> industries, targeting the growing and increasingly affluent middle class.
> As travel overseas becomes cheaper, Indians are exposed to so many new
> things, and Japanese food and culture is now "in." A look into the last
> four years and the future potential of Japanese food and more in India.
> Sushi and more, anyone?
>
> Harry Cheng was born in Kobe, Japan. A graduate of the London School of
> Economics and Oxford University, where he studied social psychology and
> social welfare. After working in the UK and Canada, he came back to Japan
> to assist Virgin and Dyson in their marketing activities. He is currently
> running 4 companies in Japan and India, including "Sushi and More" India's
> first Japanese takeaway and home delivery service He started the Been
> There Done That travelbook series, and won the Good Design Award in 2010.
> He lives in Tokyo, Mumbai, and Singapore, and has been a naturalized
> Japanese citizen since 2004.
>
> Lecture in English
> No registration necessary
>
> Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture
> 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554, JAPAN
> Email: diricc@sophia.ac.jp
> Visit the website at http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/index.html
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