Adopted at the 4th Shinzo Abe Conference, Tokyo, March 28, 2025 Preamble We, the participants of the 4th Shinzo Abe Conference, gathered in Tokyo on March 28, 2025, to honor the legacy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe—a visionary leader who strengthened Japan and advanced...
Distinguished Speech by Elisabeth Moreno Representative of the Boston Global Forum for France and Africa The 4th Shinzo Abe Conference The Okura Tokyo, March 28, 2025 Ladies and gentlemen, Distinguished guests, Dear partners and friends from across the globe, It is...
On November 25, 2024, at Harvard University Loeb House, the Honorable Mark Kennedy, Director of the Wilson Center’s Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition, Member of the BGF Board of Thinkers, and an enthusiastic leader of the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and...
Yasuhide Nakayama, former Japanese State Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense, Chief of the Shinzo Abe Initiative in East Asia, and Representative of the Boston Global Forum (BGF) in Japan and Taiwan, is the Coordinator of the Enlightenment in Action Alliance (EAA)...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump reportedly discussed the security environment surrounding China and Taiwan when he met with Akie Abe, the widow of late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, earlier this month. According to sources, Trump said during the meeting, with a...
Akie Abe, the widow of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will meet U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to a CNN report. She is expected to dine with Trump, who is set to begin his second term next...
At the Boston Global Forum conference honoring French President Emmanuel Macron with the “2024 World Leader for Peace and Security Award,” Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs, Yi-Jing Lin, spoke at the “AIWS – New Democracy” panel session on “Strategies for...
Japan is allocating another ¥1.5 trillion ($9.9 billion) to boost its chip and artificial intelligence endeavors, including moonshot foundry project Rapidus. The government’s extra budget for the fiscal year to March sets aside ¥1.05 trillion to develop and research...