25th Anniversary Celebrations
The launch event in the Nissan Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebrations on Friday, 17th March 2006 when Mr Carlos Ghosn, President and CEO of the Nissan Motor Company, Ltd., gave a lecture in the Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre on Innovative Management Across Cultures. During his lecture he announced a further benefaction of £1.5 million to support the work of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies. After his lecture; Mr Ghosn took questions from the audience. The short film Nissan is Back was also shown. A copy of the press release can be found here.
The President of the Nissan Motor Company, Mr Carlos Ghosn, unveiling the plaque to mark Nissan's generous donation.
The 2nd Annual Nissan Executive Lecture was held on Thursday, 12th October 2006 in the Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Mr Tadao Takahashi, Executive Vice President for Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management and Global IS, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd spoke on The Nissan Production Way (NPW) in Japan and the UK.
Abstract:
By following the Nissan Production Way and the principle of dôkiseisan – meaning synchronization with the customer – manufacturing at Nissan remains flexible and integrated, and keeps lead times short. The Nissan Production Way incorporates integration at the supplier, global and logistic levels. That is why we remain the most productive manufacturer in the world’ (Nissan Annual Report 2004).
Mr Colin Dodge, Senior Vice President for Manufacturing, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Nissan Europe S.AS also spoke at this event.
Abstract:
In the last four years the Nissan Production Way has become the international standard for manufacturing in the world. The system makes sense everywhere, including Japan, the UK, Spain, and the U.S. It’s a system that everyone embraces and feels is theirs, not one that was imposed on them. The Sunderland plant is the most productive automotive plant in the Western world, and while we have great people working for us, the Nissan Production Way is what made this success possible (Nissan Annual Report 2004).
25th Anniversary Lectures
Professor Susan J. Pharr, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Studies, Harvard University gave a lecture entitled The Rise of Civil Society in Asia on 12th May 2006.
Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University lectured on Conflicts in the Post-Confucian World: China and Japan in the 21st century, on 24th November 2006.
25th Anniversary Conference, 22-23 September 2006
To celebrate the official opening of the Nissan Institute on 23rd September 1981 we held a 25th Anniversary Conference, to which all those receiving DPhils in [any aspect of] Japanese Studies at Oxford University since 1981 were invited. Click here for a copy of programme.
