The annual meeting of Kansai area corporate leaders opened Thursday in Kyoto with declarations of support for a recently restarted nuclear power plant and calls for the swift ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The two-day Kansai Economic Seminar brought together over 500 participants including heads of companies. Tabled for discussion were local and national economic, social, and political issues ranging from developing a more diverse and skilled young workforce in the face of a rapidly aging society to tourism promotion.
Kansai Economic Federation chairman Shosuke Mori, who also serves as chairman and director of Kansai Electric Power Co., opened the meeting by touching on local and national energy issues. He said Japan's energy policy has taken a new turn with the restart of Kepco's Takahama No. 3 reactor last week and the restart of two reactors at Kyushu Electric's Sendai plant last August.