Mori takes advice from IT experts

Mori takes advice from IT experts

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (far left) presides over a roundtable meeting of information technology (IT) experts at his official residence in Tokyo on July 19. He pledged to take up recommendations of the conference at this week's Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa. John Chambers, president and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems Inc., and Nobuyuki Idei, chairman of Sony Corp., were among experts who attended the roundtable meeting.

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