On July 28 and 29, the sixth Global Opinion Leaders Summit was held in Tokyo. The two-day event was attended by more than 1200 people. As before, the meeting was held under the auspieces of Worldwide Support for Development(WSD), the International Democrat Union(IDU) and the Japan Forum on International relations(JFIR). The two-day summit featured a lineup of leaders from around the world, who came together to share knowledge and deepen cross-cultural relationship.
The WSD is a bipartisan organization, but this time the summit focused on the past experiences and opinions of conservative world leaders, including six of former prime ministers.
First, in the event on Jul 28 which was held with a collaboration between the WSD and the IDU, featured three panel discussions. The speakers and attendees were invited and introduced by WSD Chairman and JFIR Directore Dr.Haruhisa Handa, relpacing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was originally scheduled to make an opening speech. Dr.Handa noted that "this is an opportunity to gather wisdom from the world...and understand the essence of leadership from so many former prime ministers." He expressed his wish that the summit be an open and easily understandable forum for attendees to truly understand the complex issues at hand.
Dr.Handa handed over the introductions to Katsuei Hirasawa, a member of the House of Representatives who belongs to the Liberal Democratic Party.
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