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Given the news just in that Honda and Nissan are in talks to merge, it seems particularly appropriate timing to post part 7 of Pernille Rudlin's Jiji Top Seminar talk on 40 years of Japanese companies in the UK - what's next - which deals with the 1970s and 1980s when Japanese companies set up manufacturing in the UK. More on this link: https://lnkd.in/eQfkCDV5

The very differing fates of the Japanese and British corporate sponsors of The Japanese Miracle AISEC conference at Oxford in 1985. Part 6 of Pernille Rudlin's talk to the Jiji Top Seminar continues here on our website: https://lnkd.in/ehG9jUUh

Japanese energy provider and British oil company BP are to set up a company named JERA Nex bp in the U.K. by next September after they gain approval from authorities. They intend to invest $5.8bn in the 50-50 venture by 2030. Both have been struggling to achieve profitability in offshore wind due to rising costs. Presumably it is hoped that the larger scale of the merged business will help to find economies. The new company will be the fourth largest industry player in terms of the amount of offshore wind power capacity, including those under development. https://lnkd.in/e5qsKU_v

Japanese construction machinery maker Kubota will build a new factory in Germany to produce mini excavators, planning for a long-term rise in demand in Europe despite sluggish demand in the region. Kubota already has a factory nearby employing over 500 people and another factory in France, producing tractors, where it also has an R&D centre. It acquired the Norwegian agricultural machinery manufacturing company Kverneland in 2012. https://lnkd.in/ei3jSAd4

Nippon Life is negotiating to acquire Bermuda headquartered Resolution Life for $8.2bn, making it the biggest ever acquisition by a Japanese insurer. The last major acquisition in this sector was MS&AD acquiring UK non-life insurance and reinsurance company Amlin in 2015 for $5.3bn. Resolution Life has a strong presence in the UK, as well as USA and Australia. https://lnkd.in/eM88VHdS

How Britain seemed very inward looking in 1977 and the beginning of the Wimbledon effect. Part 4 of Pernille Rudlin's Jiji lecture. https://lnkd.in/eBsaqhX4

The shock of returning to 1970s Britain after five years in Japan. The next part of Pernille Rudlin's Jiji Top Seminar speech. Particularly resonant given the recent news about Nissan. https://lnkd.in/gYcm7tXk

Part two of Pernille Rudlin's speech to the Jiji Top Seminar - the contrast between Japan and Britain, when she moved to Japan aged 6 in 1972. https://lnkd.in/edqUzwM4

Pernille Rudlin recently gave a talk in Japanese to the Jiji Top Seminar, looking at 40 years of Japanese business in the UK, how it has evolved and what the future might hold. We will post a slide by slide summary of what was said (first part can be seen via the link below), in English, over the coming days. If you'd like to see the recording, and an interview with Pernille Rudlin afterwards, which is in Japanese only, please do let us know and we can send you the link. https://lnkd.in/eVbsMSpM