By Kwan Weng Kin, Japan Correspondent

TOKYO: Japan will have to adapt quickly to global changes that come with regional integration, and Japanese youth must recognise this reality, said President S R Nathan in Tokyo yesterday.

He made the comments after receiving an honorary doctorate from Japan's most prestigious private university.

'In the globalised world that we face, greater integration of our economies with the rest of the world will continue and is not reversible. That being the case, Japan, like other major economies, will have to adapt to such changes quickly,' he said in his acceptance speech at Keio University.

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