G8 Summit

In Japan, it is still in the rainy season and the weather has been miserable everyday: how is it in your country? This year’s G8 (Eight leading industrialised nations) Summit started yesterday in Toyako, Hokkaido and leaders from Japan, USA, UK, Canada, Italy, France, Germany and Russia got together, discussing worldwide issues.

Toyako is one of the famous summer resorts in Japan and especially from the rainy season to mid-summer, this is the best time to visit there. I have not been there yet but I always wished maybe one day my boss would give me a chance to go there as a business trip when I was working as a ‘Salary-man”. Although most of you do not have a nice image of Japan’s rainy season nor summer because it is wet & humid, when you are in Hokkaido, you can spend the season comfortably with low humidity and enjoy the magnificent natural surroundings. Last year, there was news on TV saying a lot of tourists from overseas such as Russia, Australia and New Zealand visited Hokkaido while the Japanese Yen was weak. Hokkaido is the second most popular honeymoon destination after Tokyo Disneyland for people from Hong Kong & Taiwan. I do not need to say more about Hokkaido here. It might have already become very famous all over the world.

By the way, this Summit was not something I was personally interested in at first. But because they are having it here in Japan, I check the news every now & then. Especially among all the issues, they are talking a lot about the rising oil and food prices, aid for Africa and environmental problems; but I am really interested to know what they are going to do about the high oil prices and all the other resulting price changes. I started to worry about our future if the oil price does not go down when the food prices are rising after continual rises of fuel price month after month; I would like to see some action towards stabilising the oil price.

I also think that environment issues are important. Compared to the last G8 Summit in Japan, which was held in Okinawa, these environmental issues seem more important and widespread. We have abnormal weather patterns in Japan too. We have had some natural disasters somewhere in the country every year. It is still fresh in our minds that so many lives were claimed in the Hurricane in the USA and the huge Cyclone in Bangladesh and Burma, isn’t it? Because the issues of the oil price and environment are closely connected to JPC’s business, I would like to seriously work on it and do our best to run a sustainable business and way of life.

I know I have talked about some serious issues today. Let’s find a better future together.

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