Hosting Y7 Summit 2023
When the G7 Summit was held in Japan in 2023, we hosted the Y7 Summit. Please see the report below for details.
[Media Appearance]
Japanese PM cabinet meeting:
https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/101_kishida/actions/202304/13hyoukei.html
https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/101_kishida/discourse/20230409massage.html
https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2023041300987&g=pol
https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=130656
Japan MOFA website:
Japan Minister of Children and youth meeting -
Media website:
https://www.kyobun.co.jp/news/20230414_02/
Others -
public event:
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000007.000117176.html
https://www.jiji.com/sp/article?k=000000007.000117176&g=prt
https://www.gundam.info/news/event/01_11127.html
Japanese sweets wagashi:
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000006.000117176.html
Digital track - WTO official Twitter by @Anna Sobczak ;) :
https://twitter.com/wto/status/1646449677481680898
Peace track, Interview on peace (to Yuki Tokunaga)::
https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/politics/d94eaba6ed6a49f7a405a8f24068c6d3
Hiroshima field trip:
https://www.asahi.com/sp/articles/ASR486TLDR48PITB001.html
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20230408/k10014032691000.html
https://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/articles/-/291956
https://www.home-tv.co.jp/news/content/?news_id=20230407201999
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/hiroshima-news/20230408/4000021853.html
https://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/articles/-/291706
Y7 Introduction:
https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/511335
https://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/articles/-/293996
Presentation at UNU:
https://unu.edu/news/news/y7-summit-2023-communique-presented-at-unu-headquarters.html
Many Others
When the G20 Summit was held in Japan for the first time in 2019, we hosted the Y20 Summit. Please see the report below for details.
[Media Appearance]
Prime Minister’s Office Homepage
https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/98_abe/actions/201905/29hyokei.html
G20 Summit 2019 Homepage
https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/g20/osaka19/jp/engagementgroups/
Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Homepage
https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/ecm/ec/page4_005009.html
Nikkei
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO46087970U9A610C1EAC000/
Nikkei’s Feature Article
https://www.nikkei.com/nkd/company/article/?DisplayType=1&ng=DGKKZO46087970U9A610C1EAC000&scode=8031&ba=8
Feature Page for 2019 IBM Volunteer Excellence Award
https://www.ibm.org/initiatives/ibm-volunteers/stories/2019-ibm-volunteer-excellence-award-winners
Many others
Hosting Y7 Summit 2016
We hosted Y7 Summit along with G7 Ise-Shima Summit. This was the first Y7 Summit to be hosted in Japan and also the first in the world to be hosted alongside the G7 Summit.
When Russia hosted G8 Summit in 2014, Y8 Summit was canceled due to the crisis in Crimea. When Germany hosted G7 Summit in 2015, Y7 Summit was also canceled since the significance of the event was questioned. There was a sense of crisis that G7/G8 would never come with a summit that allows youth engagement.
Along with G7 Summit in 2019 hosted by Japan, we planned the “Y7 Summit.” We planned to invite five young professionals well-versed in G7 agendas from each of the G7 countries and the European Union to Japan, discuss international issues with over 400 general participants from Japan, and submit recommendations to be utilized in decision-making at G7. The Japanese government officials well understood this concept, and we successfully finished the summit with support from various entities and individuals.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all those who supported our organization in hosting the summit.
[Organizing Committee for Y7 Summit Japan 2016 ]
Soichiro Chiba (Chairman)
Mitsuki Nakamura (Head of delegate)
Shun Ohno (Delegate)
Kaori Tsuji (Delegate)
Hanami Negishi (Delegate)
Ririka Takahashi (Delegate)
Tomohiro Harada (Delegate)
Tomoya Okabe (Delegate)
Masahiro Watanabe (Delegate)
Haruka Sano (Delegate)
[Under the auspice of]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
[Sponsored by]
U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Japan
The Japan Research Institute
Accenture Japan
Suntory Holdings
Japan Tabacco
Japan Airlines
Dr. Ryo Kubota, Visiting Professor at Faculty of Medicine, Keio University
Mr. Kosei Oboshi
[Advisors]
Tadahiro Abe (Visiting Professor at Meij University Gradate School; Lecturer at Keio University; Former Abmassador)
Shigeo Kashiwagi (Professor at Keio University)
[Letter/Video Message]
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Chiba Prefecture Governor Eikei Suzuki
[Speakers]
Sukehiro Hasegawa (Former Special Represenative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Timor-Leste; Director at the United Nations Association of Japan)
Jesper Koll (Chief Executive Officer of WisdomTree Japan Inc)
Takuya Kudo (Japan’s Managing Director at Accenture Data Science Center of Excellence and Accenture Analytics)
Kunio Senga (Chief Exective Officer of Save the Children Japan)
Yoshiteru Uramoto (Professor at Sophia University; Former Regional Director of the ILO Regional Office for the Asia and the Pacific)
Sara Abe (Project Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo)
Ryugo Hayano (Professor at the University of Tokyo)
Naoko Yamazaki (Astronaut)
Reiko Hayashi (Director of the Department of International Research and Cooperation, National Institute of Population and Social Security Studies)
[Assisted by]
School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University
Rihga Royal Hotel
Hotel Chinzanso Tokyon
Cabinet Office
Mie Prefectural Assembly
Yang, Li Ming Professor at Waseda University
Graham Law Professor at Waseda University
Sterenberg, Matthew Kane Professor at Waseda University
Muehlheisen, Victoria Professor at Waseda University
[Media Appearance]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Homepage
http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/ms/is_s/page22_002606.html
NHK World
Broadcasted on May 3rd, 2016
NHK ONLINE
Article posted on May 3rd, 2016
THE HUFFINGTON POST blog
http://www.huffingtonpost.jp/…/y7-summit-2016-japan_b_12098…
News at Waseda University Homepage
https://www.waseda.jp/top/news/43208
Mita-Hyoron, Keio University
June 2016 Issue