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Sydney, May 9, 2006
The Australia Japan Business Association (AJBA) is pleased to announce the outstanding success of its inaugural breakfast meeting held this morning at the Four Seasons Hotel, Circular Quay.
The meeting was attended by over seventy representatives from Japanese and Australian private and government interests involved in a wide range of areas, from publishing and biomedical manufacture to trade and investment.
In kicking off the seminar, the president of the AJBA, Mr. James M. Pach, spoke of the need for a forum for informal exchange between Australia and Japan specifically aimed at people with business interests in the two countries.
The guest speaker at the inaugural event, Mr. Phil Ingram, Austrade's Senior Trade Commissioner in Tokyo, gave an upbeat assessment of Japan's economic future in a forty-minute speech entitled "Japan Is Back - How to Make the Most of It." In the lead-up to the fiftieth anniversary of Australia's normalization of trade relations with Japan in 1957, Mr. Ingram noted that Japan is currently experiencing is longest period of uninterrupted economic growth since the 1960s and that Japan has recently streamlined and deregulated many areas of commerce that have tended to impede the activities of foreign market entrants in the past.
Speaking after the breakfast, Mr. Pach said that he attributes the success of the event to the interest that Australian and Japanese business people have for each other's cultures and genuine desire to do business with each other, observing that there is no other society of its kind that offers people engaged in business with Australia and Japan with the opportunities for networking and exchange.
The Association is an official part of the 2006 Year of Exchange program between Australia and Japan . It also has the support of Austrade, the Australian Institute of Export and other organizations.
In its early stages, the Association is being sponsored by Lexxicorp Pty., Ltd., a languages services and IT company with offices in North Sydney and Tokyo.
A copy of Mr. Ingram's presentation can be downloaded here.