【Photo Diary】(3) My 600th Overseas Trip: Belgium, the United Kingdom and Russia

Published on October 28, 2025
I would like to share with you some of the photographs taken during my 10-day, three-nation tour which brought me to Belgium, the United Kingdom and Russia from September 15 to 24, 2025, in my capacity as honorary chair of The Nippon Foundation.
 
[September 19, Istanbul, Turkey]
Photo of Yohei Sasakawa.
Getting cakes during a three-hour stopover in Istanbul en route from London to Moscow.

 

[September 20, Moscow, Russia]
Photo of people of National Research University Higher School of Economics and Yohei Sasakawa.
Visiting National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University).
 
Photo of Patriarch Kirill and Yohei Sasakawa.
With His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Elected to the patriarchate in January 2009, he was the first head of the Russian Orthodox Church to be elected after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Photo of Yohei Sasakawa.
In Tolstoy’s study.

 

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【Photo Diary】(2) My 600th Overseas Trip: Belgium, the United Kingdom and Russia

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I would like to share with you some of the photographs taken during my 10-day, three-nation tour which brought me to Belgium, the United Kingdom and Russia from September 15 to 24, 2025, in my capacity as honorary chair of The Nippon Foundation. [September 17, Brussels, Belgium]With the weather in Brussels colder than I had expected, I bought a knit cap.  [September 17, London, the United Kingdom]

【Photo Diary】(4) My 600th Overseas Trip: Belgium, the United Kingdom and Russia

October 29, 2025
I would like to share with you some of the photographs taken during my 10-day, three-nation tour which brought me to Belgium, the United Kingdom and Russia from September 15 to 24, 2025, in my capacity as honorary chair of The Nippon Foundation. [September 21, Moscow, Russia]With Mr. Dilmurod from Uzbekistan, who is studying in Moscow under a fellowship program of the foundation’s Japan-Central As