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, …
Sukehiro Hasegawa, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, delivered a special lecture titled “The Lessons Learnt from Peacebuilding in Uganda and Timor-Leste” at Kwansei Gakuin University. (07/05/2025)
Sukehiro Hasegawa, former Special Representative of the United Nation…
Akari Suzaki, a third-year student at International Christian University and member of the steering committee of the Hasegawa Peace Building Academy, shared her views. Majoring in law and peace studies, Ms. Suzaki gained a multifaceted perspective on peace through a lecture on Zhou Enlai’s study abroad in Japan, drawing on traditional Chinese thought.(05/05/2025)
Given the significant influence Zhou Enlai’s own ideas and stanc…
John Ueki, a third-year student at International Christian University, shared his views on Zhou Enlai’s leadership style. Ueki, who specializes in international relations, discussed the significance of Zhou’s leadership in light of the qualities required of leaders in the modern world.(05/05/2025)
I was deeply impressed by Zhou Enlai’s leadership style of being…
Reina Kishida, a master’s student at the University of Tokyo, shared her thoughts on the significance of education based on Zhou Enlai’s study abroad experience in Japan. Kishida plans to enroll in a graduate program overseas this summer and discussed the importance of learning that can only be gained abroad. (05/05/2025)
Through Professor Wang Min’s lectures, I have come to und…
Students reflected on “peace and art” in light of Kyoto University of the Arts’ performance of Kyogen at the United Nations University Headquarters in Tokyo. (28/4/2025)
In this class, we heard a talk by Prof. Sukehiro Hasegawa, who worked …