Keitoku Ikegami Appointed ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office Director of Administration (16/7/2026)
Mr. Ikegami will be engaged in planning, programming, and implementing…
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During his visit to Geneva on 8 July 2025, Professor Sukehiro HASEGAWA, had an opportunity to meet with Director-General Tatiana VALOVAYA of the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG), and Senior Officials of UN and International Organizations in Geneva. They discussed the possibility of reactivating the Geneva Dialogue of Asian Scholars which had been suspended due to COVID-19. (8/7/2025)
The left photo shows Director-General Tatiana VALOVAYA, and the group …
GPAJ July Study Group Online Conference “Six Months in the Trump Administration–What and How Much Will MAGA Break?” (4/7/2025)
Masahiko Adachi, Senior Analyst at Sumitomo Corporation Global Researc…
Professor Sukehiro Hasegawa proposed a policy to allocate 1% of Japan’s defense budget to United Nations peacekeeping activities.（2/7/2025）
Professor Sukehiro Hasegawa discusses the strategic significance of al…
During his annual visit to Japan, United Nations Under-Secretary-General Atul Khare Spoke with Mr. Yasushi Akashi expressing his appreciation of inspiration he received from Mr. Akashi. Prior to his conversation with Mr. Akashi on July 2, USG Atul Khare met with former SRSG Hasegawa. (2/7/2026)
In a Hybrid Roundtable session moderated by ACUNS President Franz Baumann, the Asian Scholars Shared their Perspectives on the Effective Role of the United Nations in the Turbulent Era (Reporter Ai Kihara-Hunt). (24/6/2025)
The session was convened by Franz BAUMANN (Chair), President of the Ac…
The Indian delegation met with members of the Japanese Diet and found the need to enhance their exchange of students and visitors while noting the commonality in culture and social values. (24/6/2025)
Mr. ETO Seishiro, former Vice Speaker of the House of Representative w…
Former ICJ Chief Justice Hisashi OWADA delivers his “Doctor Honoris Causa” Acceptance Speech at the University of Prishtina in Kosova (18/6/2025)
In a solemn ceremony held at the Amphitheater of the Faculty of Educat…
Professor Vesselin Popovski delivered a lecture to the students of the Hasegawa Seminar Class at the Gaien Campus of the Kyoto University of the Arts. (14/6/2025)
Professor Vesselin Popovski, member of the Global Peacebuilding Associ…
Dr. Hasegawa Delivered a Special Lecture at International Christian University (03/06/2025)
On June 3, 2025, Dr. Sukehiro Hasegawa, Director of the Kyoto Peacebui…
Let us Build Peace with Music (21/5/2025)
The relationship between art and peace was truly expressed at the Worl…
At an exchange-of-views meeting between The Elders and Diet members belonging to The Japanese Parliamentary Committee for World Federation, Representative Satoshi Asano argued that international dialogue must be prioritised precisely when protectionism is on the rise. (15 May 2025)
On 15 May 2025, former presidents, former UN Secretaries-General and o…
At an exchange-of-views meeting between The Elders and Diet members belonging to The Japanese Parliamentary Committee for World Federation, Representative Alex Saitō pointed out that democracy is in crisis internationally and declared his determination to confront the challenge through united, cross-party action. (15 May 2025)
On 15 May 2025, former presidents, former UN Secretaries-General and N…
At an exchange-of-views meeting between The Elders and Diet members belonging to The Japanese Parliamentary Committee for World Federation, Representative Kentaro Genma underlined the need for the international community to stand united in order to achieve global peace and stability, declaring that Japan intends to play a central role. (15 May 2025)
On 15 May 2025, former presidents, former UN Secretaries-General and o…
At an exchange-of-views meeting between The Elders and Diet members belonging to The Japanese Parliamentary Committee for World Federation, Tomoko Kami, a Member of the House of Councillors from the Japanese Communist Party, welcomed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo) and reiterated her resolve to work for nuclear abolition and international peace. (15 May 2025)
On 15 May 2025, in the Special Room on Basement Level 1 of the First M…
Former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos says Japan can exercise moral value-based leadership. (15/5/2023)
Juan Manuel Santos opened the dialogue by warning that the world is “g…
Ban Ki-moon expressed “boundless gratitude” for Japan’s support of the UN. (15/5/2023)
Ban Ki-moon expressed “boundless gratitude” for Japan’s decades as a t…
At a meeting for exchanging views with The Elders, Seishirō Etō, former Chair and now Adviser of The Japanese Parliamentary Committee for World Federation, delivered remarks expressing his hope for future cooperation and dialogue between the Japanese Elders and The Elders. (15/5/2025)
At a meeting to exchange views with The Elders which was composed of f…
The 17th Secretary-General of The Japanese Parliamentary Committee for World Federation, Banri Kaieda, spoke at an exchange-of-views meeting with The Elders, a group of former heads of state and senior UN officials. He declared his determination to seek a new, upgraded parliamentary resolution on world federation—an improved version of the resolution adopted twenty years ago— to be passed in a plenary session of the House of Representatives. (15 May 2025)
On 15 May 2025, in the Special Meeting Room of the House of Representa…
The Elders delegation met the nonpartisan members of the Parliamentary Committee of the National Diet of Japan for a World Federation and called for Japan`s exercising new leadership called for by the rapidly changing global situation. (15/5/2025)
Present at the time of memorial photo taking, are from right to left, …