Conference Opening—Dr. Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Chief Social Scientist, Common Ground Research Networks, Champaign, IL, United States; Dr. Edward Drott, Associate Professor, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; Dr. Hiromi Wantanabe, Professor, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan; Dr. Andreas Motel-Klingebiel, Professor, Ageing and Later Life, Department for Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Editor, The Journal of Aging and Social Change, Common Ground Research Networks, Champaign, IL, United States
