As part of the fifth Israel-Japan Exchange Program, seven intellectual leaders from Israel visited Tokyo on October 9-16, 2001, for a series of meetings and briefings with prominent Diet members, diplomats, scholars, and business leaders on Japan’s sociopolitical, economic, and foreign policy trends. They also visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum to participate in a discussion on the future of the peace process in the Middle East, and they exchanged views on the peace movement from the perspectives of Israel and Japan.