[KS] Keizo Takemi to address virtual ICAS Winter Symposium Libertas 2026: The Korean Peninsula Issues and US National Security, January 13 2026 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM EST, Washington DC

Thu Jan 8 13:30:47 EST 2026

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November 22, 2025

The Hon Keizo Takemi
//Former Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
  Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE)
Chair, Asian Population and Development Association (APDA)

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*_Japan with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi_*
/ICAS/Winter Symposium /Libertas /2026
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_US National Security and World Affairs_*__*

*_January 13 2026 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM EST Washington DC_*
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Dear Friend:

We are pleased to share with you that The Hon Keizo Takemi will address 
the/ICAS /Winter Symposium /Libertas /2026 with a special emphasis on 
"Japan with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi: US National Security and 
World Affairs".

Keizo Takemi is senior fellow of Japan Center for International Exchange 
(JCIE) and has been serving as chair of JCIE’s Executive Committee on 
Global Health and Human Security - public-private global health policy 
platform founded in 2007 - and chair of the Asian Population and 
Development Association (APDA). He served as Minister of Health, Labour 
and Welfare in September 2023 - September 2024 and served five terms as 
a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) member of the House of Councillors. 
Prof Takemi has been involved in various global initiatives including 
the UN Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and 
Children’s Health, the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA), the WHO 
Expert Working Group on R&D Financing, and the international organizing 
committee of the Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC). In 2016, Keizo 
was appointed to the UN High Level Commission on Health Employment and 
Economic Growth, and in 2018, to the UHC Financing Advisory Committee 
for the G20 2019. He served as Senior Vice Minister for Health, Labour 
and Welfare, and State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, where Keizo led 
the initiative to establish the UN Trust Fund for Human Security. In 
recognition of his contributions to the field over the past decade, he 
was appointed WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Universal Health Coverage 
(UHC) from 2019–2022, and was named to the advisory board of the 
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in July 2025. From 
October 2025, Professor Takemi has also served as Visiting Professor at 
Nagasaki University, is the co-author of /Global Action for Health 
System Strengthening: Policy Recommendations to the G8/ (2009), and has 
written numerous articles in English.

Thank you.

                              Sincerely,

      Sang Joo Kim
                                   Senior Fellow & Executive Vice President
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