KYOTO -- Elite business leaders should be concerned about Japanese society and not profits, do more to employ young people and seniors, and increase patriotism in its workers, the secretary general for the Liberal Democratic Party told the annual gathering of Kansai business leaders Thursday.
Hidenao Nakagawa said in the keynote speech at the two-day Kansai Economic Forum that Kansai's captains of industry needed to raise a new generation of elite, patriotic business leaders who think about more than just the company's bottom line.
"An elite business leader who doesn't feel that Japan is a 'beautiful country' will simply tell the government to leave him alone. But, elite business leaders must think about their business within society as a whole," Nakagawa said.