TOKYO -- Nikkei and Nikkei Business Publications on Friday held the third Nikkei Asian Conference on Communicable Disease in Tokyo. The two-day conference is meant to discuss and propose how Asian countries together tackle infectious diseases that are threatening the region.
The background of this conference is that as more people go beyond borders with economic development, the threat of infectious disease is spreading. For Japan, which will host a summit of the Group of Seven countries in May and the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2020, preventing such diseases is a key national issue.
