In his opening remarks, Mr. Yasushi Akashi highlighted the significanc…

Thank you very much for assisting in holding the fruitful seminar on reconciliation in the post-conflict countries of Kosovo, Rwanda and Timor-Leste. (5/7/2024)

We visited Hiyoshiya, a long-established company in Kyoto manufacturing wagasa (Japanese umbrellas) for five generations and received training in making wagasa.
The store manufactures the main-style umbrellas, which are used by the Ura and Omote Senke tea ceremony masters, as well as the bungasa, janome-gasa, hahno-jyu, and mai-gasa. We strongly recommend that you visit Hiyoshiya. For more information, click here HIYOSHIYA HOLDINGS (wagasa.com) (24/6/2024)

During the post-ACUNS visit to Kyoto, ACUNS`s past President, Lise Howard, and new President, Franz Baumann, were invited by Kyoto University of the Arts President Sakiko YOSHIKAWA for a working lunch at a traditional Japanese restaurant. They agreed to extend the partnership between the two institutions to hold seminars, conferences, and other events. (23/6/2024)

The post-ACUNS visit to Kyoto started with a traditional dinner at Hotel Okura Kyoto. (23/6/2024)

At the ACUNS Annual Meeting held at the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo on 21 June, Professors Shigeyuki KAZAMA and Kazuya NAKAYAMA of the Kyoto University of the Arts, made their presentations along with Professor SHINYO Takahiro, Special Advisor to the President and Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University and former Ambassador to the United Nations and Germany. The Former Ambassador to UNESCO and SRSG in Afghanistan, Tadamichi YAMAMOTO, and the Ambassador of Afghanistan in Norway, Youssef GHAFOORZAI, commented on their presentations. They were joined by Professor SHENG Hong of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, China, and Ms. Poulomi BHADRA, Assistant Professor of the Jindal Global University, India. (21/6/2024)

KPC Honorary Chairman Yasushi AKASHI makes an opening remark for the reception hosted by the Kyoto University of the Arts. (20/6/2024)

President Sakiko YOSHIKAWA of Kyoto University of the Arts makes an opening remark while Uryuyama Academic Foundation Chairman Yutaka TOKUYAMA and ACUNS President Lise HOWARD overlook her at the reception hosted by the Uryuyama Academic Foundation. (20/6/2024)

The Councilors of Kyoto Peacebuilding Center, Yasushi AKASHI, Sukehiro HASEGAWA, Takahiro SHINYO, Tadamichi YAMAMOTO, Kae YANAGISAWA, and Miki SUGIMURA held conversations with UNU Senior Vice-Rector Sawako SHIRAHASE, ACUNS President Lise HOWARD and Franz BAUMANN, and Augusto LOPEZ-CLAROS, Executive Director of the Global Governance Forum, and Georgios KOSTAKOS, Executive Director of the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability（FOGGS）. (20/6/2024)

The Annual Meeting of the Academic Council of the United Nations was held from June 20 to 22 June 2024, at the United Nations University Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. About 500 scholars and practitioners of the United Nations activities participated in the conference including nearly 300 from abroad and 200 from Japan. Kyoto University of the Arts presented a “Kyogen” performance on the first day. (20/6/2024)

On the opening day of the ACUNS annual meeting held at the United Nations University, Professor Hiroshi SENJU of the Kyoto University of the Arts, who was awarded the Honorary Prize at the Venice Biennale International Exhibition in Italy, presented his representative work, Waterfall. He explained that waterfalls flow due to water and gravity on Earth. (20/6/2024)

Lise Morjé Howard, President of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University, opened the meeting with a speech at the UN University in Tokyo on 20 June 2024. (20/6/2024)

ACUNS convened its Annual Meeting at the UN University and the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo from 20 to 22 June 2024. A diverse and global community of nearly 400 individuals, with 300 hailing from overseas, engaged in a robust discussion on global governance and sustainable development, reinvigorating research to bolster multilateral solutions. (20/6/2024)

It was a unique and historic moment, and my grandson, Kenji, the third from left, played a key role and was even on live national TV! I thank my son, Stefan Hiroshi, for devoting much of his time and effort to helping Kenji become a great player. He is a great father! (Sukehiro Hasegawa) (02/06,2024)

Mitsuo Ohashi, president of the World Federalist Movement of Japan, stated at the 75th anniversary general meeting of the Japanese Parliamentary Committee for World Federation that 80 years have passed since the end of World War II and that we are currently in the greatest crisis since the war ended. For more information, please see the full text of the article. (23/05,2024)

I was a student of Masataka Kosaka when I was in college, so I have a realism-based way of thinking, and I was involved in diplomacy from that perspective when I was Minister of Foreign Affairs. However, I am sure you know that diplomacy cannot be improved by simply maintaining the status quo or focusing on reality. To borrow a phrase from Mr. Kosaka, “Diplomacy is about attaching the wings of ideals to the politics of reality.” I would like to work together with all of you to achieve this firmly.(2024,23/05)