Moderator

 Matsutaro Fukumitsu
Matsutaro Fukumitsu (1950) graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Keio University in 1973. He entered the National Tax Administration Agency Brewing Laboratory in 1975. After finishing Keio University Business School in 1977, he entered Fukumitsuya Sake Brewery Co. Ltd. He became president in 1985. He served as President of Kanazawa Junior Chamber in 1987, Permanent Board Member of Kanazawa Committee for Economic Development in 1990. Now he serves as Chairman of KIDI PARSONS, Deputy Chairman of Ishikawa Prefecture Sake Brewery Association, Chairman of Ishikawa Prefecture Interior Association as well as Deputy Chairman of Kanazawa Committee for Economic Development.



Dos Elshout
Dos Elshout (1955) studied Cultural Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1987 Elshout set up and carried out the Inquiry into Cultural-Historical Collections for market research institute Intomart bv, on behalf of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the Netherlands Museums Association. Since he worked free-lance for Intomart bv in Hilversum, as well as for the Boekman Foundation in Amsterdam - International comparative inquiries into the admission prices for performing arts (1990 & 1995) and Decentralization and cultural policy in Amsterdam (1991) - and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs ( as one of the reporters of Cultural policy in the Netherlands on behalf of the Council of Europe (1993). Since 1989 Dos Elshout is lecturer in Cultural Policy and Methodology in Research at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam. The past term he was asked to give a series of lectures on Cultural Sociology at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Since 1990 he also is parttime teacher at the Interfaculty Arts Management at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, conducting working groups in Research and Cultural Sociology & Economics. Besides this he is external examiner at the University of Warwick in the UK.




Anthony Sargent
Anthony Sargent held Choral Scholarships successfully at Oxford University's Magdalen and Christ Church Colleges, where he studied Politics and Philosophy. After leaving university he joined the BBC, working in a sequence of BBC production and presentation posts. After periods as a Radio Three presenter and a Producer of music, arts and current affairs programmes successively for local and network radio and in BBC Television, he was for four years Concerts Planning Manager, taking responsibility for the planning management and radio broadcasting of the BBC Proms, and of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's work throughout the year. In 1986 he joined the Arts Council's management team that took over responsibility for London South Bank Centre after the Government's demolition of the Greater London Council. As the Centre's first Artistic Projects Director, he shared responsibility for devising and developing its artistic policies; for creating high-scale integrated arts projects, and for the direct management of the department that devised and produced most of the Centre's own original programming. In 1989 he moved to Birmingham to take the new post of Head of Arts for the City Council, developing the Council's arts policies, and taking responsibility for many of the Council's highest profile arts initiatives - including such large-scale initiatives as the creation and management of Birmingham's year-long `UK City of Music 1992' programme and the editorial management of Birmingham's 10-year festival of the 20th century, TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM.


Masayuki Sasaki
Masayuki Sasaki (1949) studied at post graduate course of the Faculty of Economics of Kyoto University. After teaching as lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the Osaka University of Economics and Law, he became assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics of Kanazawa University in 1985. Since 1992 he is professor. With Ph.D. in economics, he specializes in urban economics and regional economics. ﾒEconomics of Creative Citiesﾓ and ﾒAutonomous Development of Urban and Rural areasﾓ are among his books. He is a member of National Land Council Hokuriku Regional Development Committee, Ishikawa Prefecture Urban Planning Council, etc.


Konomi Tomizawa
Konomi Tomizawa (1947) graduated from Library Junior College in 1968. After entering the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan Ltd., she worked for industrial survey in the fields of textiles, apparel, and automobile. In 1987 She temporarily transferred to the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications in charge of networking after telecommunications liberalization. Now she is a chief researcher at ISEIS(Institute for Socioeconomic Infrastructure & Services. Inc.). Besides this she is a member of Ishikawa Prefecture Fashion- town Planning Committee and Apparel Sewing Industry Cooperative Association Employment Promotion Committee. An author of ﾒThe Age of `New Artisans`ﾓ and ﾒKey to Success in Businessﾓ etc.

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