Japan can offer experience, expat says

Despite speaking fluent Chinese with a Beijing accent, there are some clues that identify Ted Tokuchi as being Japanese - the tidiness of his small Beijing office, a laptop-sized wooden tea table and his dark gray business suit.

The 65-year-old former senior executive of China's largest securities company, CITIC Securities International, was given the country's top award for foreign experts - the Friendship Award - in 2009.

Having spent two-thirds of his life in China, Tokuchi believes that the country will play a crucial role as a future world leader.