Diet Women’s Study Group | 2nd Meeting
JCIE Senior Fellow Hitoshi Tanaka spoke with the Diet members spoke with the Diet members at the Study Group on Empowering Women Political Leaders in Japan about critical international security issues and how Japan can position itself against the backdrop of structural changes in both developing and developed nations.
Democracy for the Future | Our Role, Japan’s Role—Thought Leaders Seminar
Twenty-five thought leaders from Japan met with the president of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (USA) for discussions on the state of democracy and democracy assistance.
Roundtable on Japan’s Migration Policy | Symposium on Accepting Foreigners and Japan’s Future
As part of JCIE’s Roundtable on Japan’s Migration Policy series, a major symposium was convened to examine the question of “Accepting Foreigners and Japan’s Future—Toward a Basic Law on Foreigners Residing in Japan.” The event drew roughly 200 people from government, business, nonprofit, and research organizations, and the foreign community in Japan.
Friends of the Global Fund, Japan Commemorates 15th Anniversary
The Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ) welcomed more than 150 participants at its 15th Anniversary Event, which was held at The Classic House, Akasaka Prince, in Tokyo. The participants included parliamentarians from various parties, parliamentarians, government officials, the health sector and other non-health areas of the private sector, academia, NGOs, media, and students.
Diet Women’s Study Group | 1st Meeting
The Diet Women’s Study Group’s first session featured former UN Under-Secretary-General Yukio Takasu, who spoke with the group about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), asking what Japan should do to ensure that nobody is left behind in the efforts to achieve the SDGs.
Roundtable on Japan’s Migration Policy FY2018 | 2nd Meeting
The second in a series of roundtables that are exploring the content of Japanese laws concerning foreigners residing in Japan.
Development of Web-based Platform on Aging in Asia for AHWIN
In light of Asia’s massive demographic shift, the Japanese government launched the Asia Health and Wellbeing Initiative (AHWIN) in 2016. Under the auspices of the Cabinet Secretariat of Japan, JCIE has worked with ERIA to launch the AHWIN website, which will serve as a platform for disseminating key data and resources on aging in Asia and sharing best practices to respond to this demographic shift.
Global Health Diet Roundtable | The Looming Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance
Dr. Kazuhiro Tateda of Toho University, who serves as president of both the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases and the Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology, briefed eight legislators on the domestic and global issues involved with the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
JCIE/USA Executive Seminar | Post–Midterm Outlook for US Political & Economic Relations
Two top experts on US-Japan relations— Columbia University Professor Gerald Curtis and the Wall Street Journal’s Jacob Schlesinger—assessed the Democratic victory in the midterm elections and the prospects for the next two years of the Trump administration’s Asia policy.
A Multistakeholder Approach to Healthy and Active Aging
At this side event co-organized by JCIE, groundbreaking innovations and community-based approaches from Japan and Thailand were introduced as a way to promote discussion on healthy and active aging. This event was carried out as part of the Asian Health and Wellbeing Initiative (AHWIN). As part of its program on Healthy and Active Aging in Asia.