Related Events

Schedule

Day 1: September 11 (Sunday)

(1)Welcome Lunch Reception Hosted by Hyogo Prefecture and Kobe City
(2)Photo Session
(3)Session
(4)Coffee Break
(5)Outreach Tour
(6)Optional Tour
(7)Dinner hosted by Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki

Day 2: September 12 (Monday)

(8)Joint Press Conference
(9)Official lunch hosted by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
(10)Guided Tour of the Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster (KBIC)

Bilateral Meetings

(1)Welcome Lunch Reception Hosted by Hyogo Prefecture and Kobe City

(Sep.11, 11:00-12:15 at Sorakuen Garden)

Welcome by local elementary school students

Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki welcoming participants with Toshizo Ido (Governor of Hyogo Prefecture), Kizo Hisamoto (Mayor of Kobe City), and Tadaharu Ohashi (Chairman of The Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

Welcoming the Ministers from G7 countries

Governor Ido delivering a welcome address

(2)Photo Session

(Sep. 11, 12:15-12:30 at Sorakuen Garden)

Photo Session 1

Photo Session 2

(3)Session

(Sep. 11-12 at Kobe Portopia Hotel)

Session meeting room

Minister Shiozaki chairing the meeting

(4)Coffee Break

(Sep. 11-12 at Kobe Portopia Hotel)

Japanese tea being served by local high school students

Exhibition of reconstruction in areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake

Japanese tea being served by the Hyogo Prefecture Tea Ceremony Association

(5)Outreach Tour

(Sep. 11, 13:45-17:00 at Hyogo Prefectural Kobe Children's Hospital and Kobe Minimally Invasive Cancer Center)

Participants visiting the Hyogo Prefectural Kobe Children's Hospital

Participants visiting the Kobe Minimally Invasive Cancer Center

(6)Optional Tour

(Sep. 11, 18:00-19:15 at the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI))

Participants visiting the Institution

Participants being briefed about the exhibition

(7)Dinner hosted by Minister Yasuhisa Shiozaki

(Sep. 11, 19:30-21:30 at Kobe Portopia Hotel)

Minister Shiozaki making a toast

Performance of the Ebisu Dance of the Awaji Ningyo-joruri puppet theater

(8)Joint Press Conference

(Sep. 12, 12:30-13:00 at Kobe Portopia Hotel)

Joint press conference

Minister Shiozaki explaining about the outcomes of the Meeting

(9)Official lunch hosted by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

(Sep. 12, 13:00-14:00 at Kobe Portopia Hotel)

Lunch Reception

Mayor Hisamoto giving a presentation on the Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster (KBIC)

(10)Guided Tour of the Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster (KBIC)

(Sep. 12, 14:00-15:30 at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology and the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science)

Participants looking at cells under a microscope at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology

Participants being briefed about the supercomputer "K," at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science

Bilateral Meetings
Representatives from international organizations and Asian countries outside the G7 were also invited to the Ministers' Meeting.

(Sep. 10-12 at Kobe Portopia Hotel)

Minister Shiozaki meeting with Canadian Minister of Health, Jane Pauline Philpott

Minister Shiozaki meeting with German Federal Minister of Health, Gottfried Hermann Grohe

Minister Shiozaki meeting with German Federal Minister of Health, Gottfried Hermann Gröhe

Minister Shiozaki meeting with Undersecretary of the Italian Ministry of Health, Vito De Filippo

Minister Shiozaki meeting with UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health and Innovation, Nicola Blackwood

Minister Shiozaki meeting with US Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, Jimmy Kolker

Minister Shiozaki meeting with European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis

Minister Shiozaki meeting with Lao Minister of Health, Bounkong Syhavong

Minister Shiozaki meeting with Myanmar Union Minister for Health and Sports, Myint Htwe

Minister Shiozaki meeting with Singaporean Minister for Social and Family Development, Tan Chuan-Jin

Minister Shiozaki meeting with Thai Minister of Public Health, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn

Minister Shiozaki meeting with Director-General of WHO, Margaret Chan