I would like to share with you some of the photographs taken during my visit to Cambodia and Malaysia between March 22 and 27, 2023, in my capacity as chairman of The Nippon Foundation, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination and Special Envoy of the Government of Japan for National Reconciliation in Myanmar.
[March 24, Phnom Penh, Cambodia]
At the end of our meeting at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen agreed to my request to pose for a photograph next to a banner reading "Don't Forget Hansen's Disease," a campaign that I initiated in 2021 to ensure that leprosy is not overlooked even amid the coronavirus pandemic.
During the 75-minute meeting, the prime minister spoke highly of the foundation’s decades-long activities in the education and health sectors in the kingdom as well as of the humanitarian assistance we are providing to internally displaced ethnic minority women and children in Myanmar.
For details of my meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen, please see my blog for April 13.
At a luncheon hosted by Mr. Prak Sokhonn (center), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
With Lt. Gen. Hun Manet, Commander of the Royal Cambodian Army and the eldest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen. I suggested that he visit Japan this summer to observe the annual Fuji Firepower Exercise of Japanese Self-Defense Forces at the East Fuji Maneuver Area in Gotemba in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. But the general said it would be difficult for him to do so due to the general election in Cambodia and he might instead send other senior officers to the event through the embassy in Tokyo.
With Professor Takashi Asakura (fourth from right) and other faculty members of Tokyo Gakugei University who were in Cambodia under the School Health Development Project for All Cambodian Children with the aim of training health educators in the kingdom.
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