Japan must drastically revise its attitudes toward women and foreigners to stake a place in the global information technology revolution and survive and prosper as a nation in general, according to experts at a Tokyo conference last week.

Panelists discuss the potential for women and foreigners to become leaders in Japan's IT society.

Participants at the conference "Women and Foreign Nationals as Leaders in Information Society," organized by The International University of Japan's Center for Global Communications and supported by The Japan Times, stressed the importance of education to reduce the current obstacles to reform.