Just before the Ise-Shima G7 Summit started in Japan, EU Council and Commission Presidents stressed migrants and refugees are a global crisis requiring global solidarity and assistance. (Photo: EC Audiovisual Services)
Paul Krugman: Fiscal expansion only a way left to revive Japanese economy in spite of adverse debt impact (22/03/2016)
PM Shinzo Abe takes Paul Krugman’s suggestion and is proposing fiscal demand stimulus at Ise-Shima G7 Summit. Click here for detail of the analysis meeting held by Krugman and Shinzo Abe.
UN Chronicle: Post-Conflict Leadership – Key to Sustainable Peace and Development (April 2016)
In April 2016 issue of the UN Chronicle Magazine, former SRSG Hasegawa asserts, the critical task for national leaders is to secure political stability and national unity by influencing the thought and behavior of opponents.
UNDP Asia Chief thanks Japan for supporting the pillars of UN mission: peace, development and human rights (21-22/04/2016)
Haoliang Xu, UNDP Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Pacific spoke about Japan’s leadership in the global campaign again poverty, inequality, conflict and natural disasters at Kwansei Gakuin University and Yokohama National University.
Hasegawa calls for moving out of the Hobbesian world and establishing the new world order anchored in global governance (01/05/2016)
At Y7 Summit at Waseda University, youth delegates from G7 countries discussed, inter alia, how international security could be maintained.
Professor Kyu-dok Hong opens First East Asian Forum on UN Peace Operations in Seoul (22-23/04/2016)
Experts from Japan, China, Mongolia and Republic of Korea met and shared Lessons Learned from UNMISS operations and explored ways ahead.
JICA and NHK Staff explain Peacebuilding Efforts made in Srebrenica: 20 Years after the Massacre (16/04/2016)
In their presentations, Yamagishi of JICA and Kiraku of NHK explained what had happened with Serbs and Muslims of Srebrenica in their efforts to overcome their animosity and achieve reconciliation.
Komizo of Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation on “Epoch Making” visit by John Kerry and other G7 Foreign Ministers (12/04/2016)
Kerry: “It is a stark, harsh, compelling reminder not only of our obligation to end the threat of nuclear weapons, but to rededicate all our efforts to avoid war itself.”
Ramos-Horta on Rising Asia, Southeast Asia and Timor-Leste (14/04/2016)
In his speech at the University of Oxford, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Former President Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste points out some leaders are not free from the legacy of colonialism, the World War II and money politics.
Japan should adopt its own idea and invite educated and motivated Syrian people for study and professional work (02/04/2016)
In the 2 April 2016 issue of Asahi Shimbun, Professor Hasegawa suggested that a paradigm shift for Japan to adopt a new way to solve a new problem. Please click here for full text in English.