KYOTO -- A key annual gathering of senior business leaders in the Kansai region ended Friday with calls to improve relations with China and South Korea and to create an East Asian economic bloc.
Participants also said Japanese education should be reformed to better instill respect for the country's culture and traditions in young people.
Traditionally, the Kansai Economic Summit has avoided political issues. But this year participants chose to take the advice of the ancient Greek statesman Pericles, who said that the man who claimed politics was not his business had no business.