TOKYO, May 10, 2023 — In the lead-up to the G7 Hiroshima Summit 2023 this month, Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs at the Prime Minister’s Office of Japan Noriyuki Shikata gives an overview and expected agenda of the event. Shikata highlighted the priorities of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration as establishing a new form of capitalism and pursuing realism diplomacy for the new era. During the fireside chat, he discussed topics such as the meaning of G7 for Japan and the increasingly polarized world and the significance of having the summit in Hiroshima. Asia Society Policy Institute Japan fellow Takako Hikotani hosted the program. (1 hr., 9 min.)