On December 7, 2011, Nicholas Benes (Representative Director of BDTI) gave a lecture at the Temple University Japan Campus on the above topic. The speech can be viewed at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pT_FdMN7Wo
The presentation materials may be downloaded by registered users of BDTI's Discussion Forum,in the data library at:
Improving CG in Japan http://bdti.or.jp/english/data_library#gallery-57e8f3da22e51d63e24f0b89dafd0adb3923c06abb86ea3ad7514474dca88f83
and
Updated Proposal http://bdti.or.jp/english/data_library#gallery-0014c0b89e178cf269acfd4d215e31a2b6f117c5e9f77862d38d58ada01ac59d
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