【Photo Diary】 Visit to China to Celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Japan-China Sasakawa Medical Fellowship Program
Published on August 21, 2023
I would like to share with you some of the photographs taken during my visit to Beijing on July27-28, 2023, in my capacity as chairman of The Nippon Foundation to attend a ceremony to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Japan-China Sasakawa Medical Fellowship program at the Great Hall of the People.
[July 27, Beijing, China]
Arriving in Beijing after a 3-hour, 20-minute flight from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.
At dinner with Vice Minister Cao Xuetao of China’s National Health Commission (second from left) and former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (far right).
[July 28, Beijing, China]
With former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori in front of the Great Hall of the People where the 35th anniversary gala event was held.
The event brought together a total of some 1,000 participants. They included such dignitaries as former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and China’s National Health Commission Vice Minister Cao Xuetao as well as hundreds of Chinese fellows who took part in the fellowship program and about 140 Japanese professors and instructors who taught and worked with them.
This was the first gala held at the Great Hall of the People with as many as 1,000 participants since China eased its stringent COVID-19 restrictions late last year.
“We aim for this fellowship program to be a model for joint research between Japan and China,” I told the ceremony.
A new agreement on the sixth phase of the fellowship program is signed by the author, Vice Minister Cao Xuetao (center) of China’s National Health Commission and Dr. Hideoki Ogawa (left), president of the Japan-China Medical Association. Under the new agreement, we will invite 30 Chinese medical students and professionals to Japan each year for five years starting in 2024 for doctoral courses, joint research programs and a newly added postdoctoral research program.
A birthday party was hosted by Japanese ambassador to China Hideo Tarumi (right) at his official residence for former Prime Minister Mori (center) who turned 86 on July 14.
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