PM Ishiba held a Japan-Timor-Leste Summit Meeting with President Jose Ramos-Horta on August 22, 2025 (14/9/2025)

Upon arrival in Tokyo on August 22, 2025, President Ramos-Horta of East Timor (Nobel Peace Prize laureate) held talks with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, and exchanged views with bipartisan Diet members. He also delivered lectures at the University of Tokyo, the United Nations University, and the Osaka Expo, explaining how Japan can demonstrate leadership in the chaotic international community to build a peaceful and stable global society. To learn about the new international peace framework Japan should lead, please read an article written by Professor HASEGAWA Sukehiro that will appear in the November issue of the monthly magazine ‘VOICE’, on sale October 6.(14/9/2025)

(Reporters: Keitoku Ikegami)