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…