Global Opinion Leaders Summit (1)

Worldwide Support for Development (WSD), a nonprofit organization holding summit meetings on global welfare, held the fourth Global Opinion Leaders Summit where former U.S. President Barak Obama spoke about denuclearization and world peace, in Tokyo on March 25.

 The speakers were Obama, WSD Chairman Dr.Haruhisa Handa, former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and WSD Honorary advisor Brendan Scannell.

More than 2,200 people attended at the meeting.

 The two years have passed since Obama visited Japan for the first time. During his first visit to Japan, he visited Hiroshima as U.S. president for the first time, and paid tribute to the victims of the WWII atomic bombing and their families.

 Dr.Handa said at the beginning of the summit, “I am very much honored to invite former President Barack Obama to Japan for the first time since he finished his second term.”

Former U.S.President Barack Obama and WSD Chairman Dr.Haruhisa Handa

shake hands during the Global Opinion Leaders Summit in Tokyo on March 25.

WSD

(source: THE JAPAN TIMES, April 16, 2018）