However, by thinking ahead using their insight, the people of Okayama seem to have overcome various challenges at different times. During the Edo period, under the feudal Ikeda clan, Kojima Bay was reclaimed and agricultural productivity was dramatically improved.
Let me begin by highlighting our joint Nordic and American societal heritage, which is fundamentally linked to economic liberalism and the market economy. This is the basis for us ‘growing together’, as the conference title starts, which I, frankly, much prefer to ‘growing apart’.