Contents
Greeting

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Part 1：「Africa & Nutrition」

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Part 2：「Refugee & Nutrition」

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Part 3：「For Olympic: Let’s talk about nutrition, food, and life as a citizen」

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Appendix
Flyer / Program
Cabinet Secretariat / MoFA / MAFF / JICA / GNR2017
FAO/ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members
Today, I appreciate of all of you for attending this symposium title" Nutrition
Symposium by Joint Parliamentarians: Appropriate Nutrition For All mothers andChildren ", My name is Keisuke Suzuli, Secretary General of Federation of Diet Members Act of FAO.
I am the chairman of Part 1 "Africa and Nutrition".
Today, I deeply appreciate the kind cooperation from many parliamentarian leagues. First of all, on
behalf of Federation of diet members for international Mother and the Child Nutrition Improvementthat I called for, I wish to call upon Hon. Ichiro Aisawa - Vice-chairperson of Federation of Diet
Members for international mother and the child nourishment improvements - to make the opening
speech.
Ichiro Aisawa, Vice-Chairman of Diet Caucus on International Maternaland Child Welfare Improvement
During the occasion of Olympic and Paralympic 2020, the Nutrition Summit will
be held. First and foremost, nutrition is indispensable for all the athletescompeting in Olympic to attain a great performance.
The theme, today, is " Appropriate Nutrition for all mothers, children!" We look upon children to
open up the future of any developing country. To that end, nutrition improvement during infancy
period is indispensable.
On the other hand, the problem of refugees is worsening in the world. Over 65 million people said tobe refugees live under difficult situations every day which makes it really important to supply
nutrition to people in such a situation.
We shall focus on "Africa and Nourishment", "Refugees and Nourishment" and "Let us talk about
Nutrition, Meals, and Life for citizens of the world" as the main three themes.
In the symposium being held today, Part 1 becomes the special feature of the three themes.
Today's symposium commits to the accomplishment of SDGs and wishes to arouse the interest of theprivate sector and at citizen level. As the government, we advocate for the actualization of this SDG
2 target. I wish that you participate in this symposium and enrich it by all means
In addition, I want to invite the keynote speaker from abroad and express my heartfelt appreciation
to him. Together with all participants today, I look forward to a fruitful and productive engagement.

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Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members
Thank you, Mr. Aisawa. Today's symposium looks into 17 items regarding
SDGs. As pointed out by Mr. Aizawa, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympics
was started by Prime Minister Blair’ initiative in N4G in London and promoted at Rio Olympic andParalympic. It is expected to be publisized more in Tokyo in the next two years.
Since we have the Senior Vice Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Ms. Michiyo Takagi with us
today, I would like her to say a word.

Michiyo Takagi, Senior Vice Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare(International Mother and Children Nutrition Improvement federation ofDiet members, Parliamentary Association for Vaccine Prevention,
Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for FAO )It is great to see a large number of all of you gather in this Nutrition Symposium by the Joint Leagueof Parliamentarians albeit being busy today. Congratulations.
This summit is a precursor to of the Tokyo Olympics Paralympics of 2020.
Today, I wish to ask for the cooperation of all of you as a kickoff for the Nutrition Summit.
I wish to also ask you that today's symposium takes a bold step for the Nutrition Summit.
Congratulations again.

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Part1: Africa & Nutrition(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members
For the keynote speech of Part 1, we shall have Ann Lartey, Director FAO
Nutrition, Neil Watkins and Nematto Hajiboi from Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation. But first, I welcome Ms. Ann Lartey
Anna Lartey,
Former chairman of International Union of Nutritional Sciences, Directorof Nutrition, FAO(Introduction)
It is my honor to have an opportunity to talk about malnutrition problems in Africa, one of the very
important issues in the continent.
When TICAD VI was held in Kenya in 2016 as an international conference regarding African
development, the Government of Japan launched ÏFNA (Initiative for Food and Nutrition Security in
Africa”) to tackle nutrition issues in Africa. Additionally, after its first (London, 2013) and second(Rio de Janeiro, 2016) summits, the 3rd “Nutrition for Growth“ Summit was in Milan in November
2017. The next expects to be held in Tokyo in 2020. A series of other international conferences onnutrition are also being organised, including TICAD VII in Yokohama in 2019, and “the Power of
Nutrition: for the Smiles of 10 Billion People”in September 2021.
（Current Nutrition Situation in Africa）
As indicated, the green circles indicate Africa’s prevalence of undernourishment, and the number ofpeople who go to bed with suffering from hunger is increasing. This also triggers “stunting”
among children.
On the diagonal lines as below, the figures are decreasing more slowly in Africa, compared to thosein the other regions.
In addition to the problem of childhood obesity, anemia is particularly a persistent problem among
women of reproductive ages, contributing to infant mortality.

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Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members
We received basic information about the present nutrition conditions of Africa. I
believe that Japan’s contribution will be applied widely.

Neil Watkins, Vice director of nutrition division at Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation (Advocacy)
Thank you, Mr. Suzuki. I am thankful on behalf of Gates Foundation for thisopportunity. As for SDGs as well as UHC, I have a strong thought on a personalbasis. The death toll decreases on the global basis. The number of deaths of infants five years or
younger is 6 million. Implementation of SDG 3 aims to reduce by half the number of deaths by 2030
and 45% of the deaths of infant due to malnutrition. 6 million people die every year, of which 45%
are due to malnutrition.
Responding to this situation is necessary so that 50% of this population that cannot access proper
nutrition can be tackled. To that end, the governments concerned, high coverage of the effective costeffectiveness by the partnership with the private donor are necessary. With the tried-and-trueintervention package for one human being, the height such as newborn babies, the measurement of
the weight is difficult; has a technical problem. The good use of smartphones in school is thought
about in the future. The correspondence with the new technical aspect becomes a high impact
intervention. According to the analysis of the World Bank, the achievement of SDGs is enabled by ascale-up of the interventions by 2030.
About the funding, only 1% of ODA is distributed for nutrition programmes. The high burdencountries are concentrated in Africa and Asia. It is not only one country, and coverage of the wholeworld is necessary. About the investment, the investment in the child is important. It is necessary to
put a priority on investment in nutrition. Only seven years remaining before international deadline of2025 set in World Health Assembly of 2012.

Nematto Hajiboi, Vice director of nutrition division at Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation (Country impact)
As the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we are concerned with the SDG2-2
which was the basis of tha target made at the WHO general meeting of 2012 by
190 countries to handle nutrition matters across the globe. With proper nutrition, we can avoid stunting
among 65 million children, and dementia among the first 1000 days of infants according to the World
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Bank, it is said that economic prosperity is possible by achieving the prevention of 2,800,000 humandeaths related to lack of nutrition. I suppose that this matter is a multisectoral issue whch has to beresearcherd acrossboard including agriculture. An article published in the Lancet in 2013 had a great
impact in sensitizing us about all this. The World Bank investment interventions at handling suchproblems are estimated at 2,300 million dollars a year. The return for this investment is very huge.
At a 2013 summit in UK, and Italy in November 2017 following the Rio Olympics of 2016, leaders
committed to work with NGOs as asserted by the World Bank. According to the report of 2013, I
intend to take up the role of support and monitoring of the progress ahead of the 2020 summit.

(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members
I think that the political commitment to this approach is important.
The Abe Administration has a strong commitment towards impelementing SDGs
without much opposition froom the opposition and and government.

Panel Discussion:
Takeaki Matsumoto, Vice-Chairman of Diet Caucus on International
Maternal and Child Welfare Improvement
I want to thank you for this forum to discuss such important matters. I am
impressed by the presentation from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Just
seven years ago, I supported the appointment of Secretary General Silva of the FAO who comesfrom Brazil. Before coming to this meeting, I had a chat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about
the situation in Africa. This is why at LDP, the nutrition of the mother and child is a key theme in our
meeting on economic cooperation.
We have already developed various activities about health through JICA volunteers in each countryin Africa. I will discuss about the approach of fixing this problem in cooperation with the local
governements. In essence, the Diet members herecan feel the seriousness of this crisis, and cancontribute in solving this in many ways.
In the Gates Foundation, I had you make structure of "the loan conversion" with the poliomyelitis
extermination of Pakistan seven years ago about nutrition. When our country gives a yen loan andrealizes an activity of the poliomyelitis extermination, the Pakistani government returns it, but a
Gates Foundation is structure to take over a loan as much as result of the poliomyelitis extermination
goes up. It was the first decision that started with a debt in the field of health in our country. Myself,6

I did it. After all I think that groups from our country including JICA with the know-how of thepoliomyelitis extermination may cooperate with the Gates foundation which can use each usable
financial and material resources. In addition, in the aspect of nutrition, there are various results in the
countries where we are in operation. I think with the cooperation of the Gates Foundation, we canachieve great results. I think the cooperation can be a very good thing. Thank you(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members

Thank you. Since time is running out so fast, I think it will be difficult toparticipate in the discussions. So, let’s receive an opinion from caucus members
each in around one minute. But before that, I would like Mr. Furukawa to give us a speech.

Motohisa Furukawa, Co-chairman of Friends of GF Japan Diet Task ForceGood morning. Since, I have one minute, I will do make really short. I work as
co-chair of the member of the Diet taskforce of the Global Fund with Ichiro
Aisawa of LDP. I am Motohisa Furukawa of Party of Hope.With respect to thenutrition issues, I really owe it to Mr. Mihara. Davos Forum is currently underway. I was chosen as a
freshman and a young global leader when World Economic Forum began in 2015. Several members
selected from freshmen of Japan launched NPO called “TABLE FOR TWO”.
As pointed out today, African children have serious lack in nutrition while in the developed countries
too much nutrition is provided, ending up to incrase in lifestyle-related diseases. Ten years passed
since we launched “TABLE FOR TWO” as a mechanism to coordinate this imbalance on a global
level. The Global Fund, which I act as a co-chairperson, is an organization aiming at theeradication of the infectious diseases such as, AIDS malaria, tuberculosis. In such a case, people
need physical strength apart from medication or supplying vaccines. If not, people may die through aside effect of medicine or vaccine. I set up this NPO having learned that provision of nutrition isindispensable.
In Africa, this concept is required. Medical support in Africa is premised on meeting thenutritional
needs of the mother and child. I want to support that across all political parties. A large number of
NPO has come today and I think that cooperation with NPO/NGO is very necessary. I take theresponsibility to foster cooperation with everybody continuously by all means and support thisinitiative fully. Thank you.

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(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members
Thank you. Next, I invite Mr. Mihara, deputy chairman of Japan-AU
Parliamentary Friendship Association.

Asahiko Mihara, Deputy Chairman of Japan-AU Parliamentary Friendship
Association
Hello, everyone. I came back home from Senegal just three days ago. UHC
forum performed in December in Tokyo, and the President had come all the way
from Senegal and thought I too should go and see the spot. Our country hascomitted 2,900 million U.S. dollars as a part of UHC and will build a medical center.
Nutrition and health always go together. I think that it is significant that it is said so since this is an
aspect in UHC which our country pushes forward through the Abe Administration. Particularly, there
is enough food in Southeast Asia. However it is a problem in Africa. When I went to Senegal, I thatthe global fund fights three diseases; AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. In addition, hepatitis seems tobecome a problem in Africa. According to the Pasteur Institute Senegal, one in ten people had
hepatitis. I hope this does not become a problem of the future. We really need to look at these twointerrelated aspects of health. Nutrition and medical care.

(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members

Thank you. Next, Mr. Yoshida, please.

Tsunehiko Yoshida, Secretary of Parliamentary Association for Doctors to
Ahieve Appropriate Medical Services
Good morning, everyone. I am Tsunehiko Yoshida, a member of the House ofRepresentatives. Previously, I was a doctor at the research institute at the Johns
Hopkins University before having a seat as a Diet member and I have been a medical volunteer in
Ghana in cooperation with Yale University. I was based on an operation and taught to be an African
doctor. At that time, Ghana was relatively a rich country in Africa. Still, there was a child going blinddue to nutrition, a condition called avitaminosis, especially at a city in the north of Accra. There is apart of nutrition which is lacking, and another, is about the lack of enlightenment about nutrition.
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Much as Ghana is relatively a rich country, there is such a problem. If I am not mistaken, I think that
it was around 2008. I did continue with various volunteer activities afterwards in cooperation with
Yale University. In addition, I think that it is important that young people are interested in such anactivity. Unfortunately, the volunteer spirit in Japan in not as good as in the US where it is so
widespread. We as political parties should push this agenda and actualize it.

(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members
Thank you. The time is over. You took more than a minute. I would like to invite
the next speakers in the order of Mr. Kamiya then Mr. Ishizaki.
Noboru Kamitani, Perliamentary Assosiation for children’s future
Hello, everyone. I am Noboru Kamitani of the LDP member of the House ofRepresentatives. Many congratulations on today's successful nutrition
symposium. Japan has self sufficiency in terms of food, and we take more than
we need by 40%. We throw away 20 percent in food service industry. There are children who miss a
meal, and as the minustry, we want to handle this situation.
There was a meeting about the Keikyo infrastructure today at LDP from 9.00 am. It thought about
the infectious diseases related to water and proper human sanitation.
But we needto protect ourselves from the disaster of the future arising from climate change. How
does the other prevent a climate change? We needed to reduce carbon dioxide by 26% by 2023. This
explains the Paris agreement to have Wal-Mart engaged in the fight aginst climate change. I export
these systems and want to work on disaster risk reduction doing the damage at the time of thedisaster hard from now on. Thank you very much.

(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members

Next, Mr. Isizaki, please.

9Toru Ishizaki, Secretary General of Young Perliamentary Association forusing AI, Big Data and IoT
My name is Toru Ishizaki, a member of the House of Representatives. Thank you
for a splendid symposium. When I worked in Ministry of Finance ten years ago,
I was in charge of the World Bank. At that time, the Japanese Government had the fund called the
JFS beginning vertical fund in the World Bank. I think that I may utilize such a fund in the field of
nourishment. Such a fund is spent through various programmes, too, and there was the story of the
yen loan from Mr. Matsumoto a while ago, but I want to find approximately 200 million yen then as
I do the contribution on the fund through a Japanese Government international organisation for
nutrition programmes. It is less than one minute. Thank you.

(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members

Last speech is from Mr. Sato.

Akira Sato, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement
I am Akira Sato of the LDP from Osaka. I specialize in education. I think thatyou must get healthy growth, nourishment of the mother and the child well.
Africa in particular, there was the South Sudanese story which included poor infrastructure
maintenance to produce food. Japan pushes forward to support such initiatives to provide a meal forthe child. There is the problem of the hygiene too. I think that I can support it as well. Thank you.

(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members

Thank you so much. Finally, Ms. Hiroko Kato, Japan Dietetic Federation will
make a sppeach.

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Hiroko Kato, Chairman of Japan Dietetic Federation
I might get thinner in talking with you about nutrition matters. Thank you forgiving me such an opportunity. As I was a timid person, I wrote a letter.
With a basic tone lecture or a panel discussion, a heart became full for attention
to the meals. I feel I should make an effort to promote this struggle.
In Japan, Takamori Saigo engaged earnestly in the national affairs which led a large-scale of NHK
delivered. Let me describe the life of Takamori Saigou. At the beginning of national affairs, "anyone
eats equally". After all, I think that it is important, "to eat". "Eating" is "living." It wants to advance
while associating with all of you by all means. I think that you can utilize we dieticians, andadministrative dietitians by all means. Thank you for your cooperation.
I thank you for having created such an opportunity. I wish you continue prosperously in the future. I
am Hiroko Kato, chairperson, Japanese Federation of Dietician.

(Moderator)
Keisuke Suzuki, FAO Secretary General of federation of diet members
Thank you. Ms. Kato gave very concise greetings to me. Thank you. It was only
pushed for one minute 30 seconds. I thank you heartily. This marks the end ofPart 1. In Part 2 we shall focus on the progress of Mr. Yayoi Kimura concerning "refugees andnutrition".

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Part 2: Refugees and Nutrition(Moderator)
Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement
I am Yayoi Kimura and moderator of Part 2” Refugees and Nutrition” session.
Thank you so much for taking your time to participate in this symposium. In addition, I am so happy
to make a space to discuss “Refugees and Nutrition”.
First of all, Mr. Pierre who is Commissioner-General of The United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will make a speech to explain the reality of the Palestinian refugees.
In particular, he will mention the issue of nutrition for mothers and children.

Pierre Krähenbühl UNRWA Commissioner-GeneralThank you so much for the opportunity to speak. The Japanese’s commitment to
UNRWA is highly appreciated. Japan has supported UNRWA since 1953. I met
Hon. Taro Kono, Minister of Foreign Affairs yesterday. We have kept a good
relationship even prior to Japan joining in United Nation system.
First, I would like to explain the Palestinian refugee’s issue. In 1948, 700 thousand people had toescape West Bank, due to conflict. This is the start of Palestinian refugees. Despite huge progress,
they could not establish their own country. This is why, UNRWA has started a support program inconflict areas, such as Gaza and Syria.
Today’s discussion theme is to sustain food supplements. Palestinian refugees need food immediately.
Gaza is blocked from the outside world and cannot receive materials. Previously, eighty thousandpeople received food support in Gaza. A total of 1 million Palestinian refugees have received the foodsupport. Palestinian refugees need to feel dignified. They want to get job to sustain themselves, notjust to receive food. Their dignities can be maintained by money to get food by themselves, NOT justfood donations.
The idea of nutrition is needed to implement UNRWA’s project. We never see Palestinian refugees as
victims. The United Nations emphasizes on nutrition for the mind! That is right. Therefore, we needto support them by remitting money for ensuring their dignity. In addition, education is also needed.
There are 700 schools in Aleppo and Gaza managed by UNRWA. 500 thousand children can learn atthese schools. These schools are supported by donors such as Japan and Canada. This support is related
to achieving SDGs. They provide children nutrition for mind, education, hope and dream for the future.
Now, we are in a serious situation because the main donor, United States has stopped to help UNRWA.
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In order to help the 5.3 million Palestinian refugees, we call for your cooperation and partners.

(Moderator)
Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement

Thank you so much. I realized lots of Japanese governmental works are neededfrom his speech. Next speech is from Dr. Akihiro Seita who is Japanese doctor in UNRWA. He will
explain how to contribute to UNRWA as Japanese government.

Akihiro Seita, Director of Health at UNRWA

I am Seita Akihiro. I will make a speech in Japanese because I am Japanese. As
Mr. Pierre mentioned, 5.3 million Palestinian refugees have received our support,such as education, health and social services. 5.3 million refugees is a very highnumber, comparing with the other refugees. The number of Palestinian refugees is bigger than Syrian
refugees (5 million people). It takes already 70 years that they become refugees.
When Israel established in 1948, Palestinian refugees moved to Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bankand Gaza. 5.3 million have stayed in various areas for 70 years. Every time I say that this issue is asign of negative legacy. This issue has not been solved yet.
My specialization is in health sector. What is the biggest issue about health for Palestinian refugees?
Surprisingly, 70%-80% of them die due non-communicable diseases, like life-style related diseases.
The most common disease is diabetes, and follows hypertension, cardiac diseases, cancers andrespiratory diseases by tobacco. It is totally different from your images. The issue of refugees in 21st
era is life-style related diseases. This is because they not to eat delicious foods and get
hypercholesterolemia and hypertension. The reason is that they are just poor. Poor people eat cheap
hood. The cheapest food in Amman (Jordan) is bread. When people pay 150 JPY, they can get 3.4 kgof bread. The bread is very tasty. Worse they put huge amount of sugar to take tea. Above all, there isno place to walk. This means people cannot play or exercise.
What problem happens if they just eat bread and drink tea with a lot of sugar and do not exercise?
They gain weights and tend to become diabetic. In addition, many Palestinian refugees are heavy
smokers. This leads to hypertension and causes lung cancer and other cancers. Therefore, the numberof diabetes, hypertension, cardiac diseases, cancers and respiratory diseases increases. Due to poverty,
70%-80% of people die because of life-style related diseases.
Access to nutrition is quite important, however poor people cannot have choices. They eat unbalanced
food and receive unbalanced nutrition. This is the biggest problem! In our sector, we introduced
13human-centered medical care services. We established the team with nurse to provide each patientcustomized care. It is life-long services because diabetes and hypertension cannot be cured. We
introduced electronic medical records. We continue these services not only physically but alsomentally. We try to do our best to manage diabetes in coordination with officers. Japanese government
has supported us to introduce these services. Thank you so much.
The fundamental issue is poverty and lack of peace. We cannot solve this fundamental issue while we
implement various medical services. Therefore, we have to struggle to solve fundamental issue withJapanese government. It is simple “No peace, no health” “No peace, no nutrition improvement”.
Without justice, we cannot achieve health and nutrition improvement for Palestinian refugees.
I have worked in UNRWA for 7 years. I realized people become healthy when society is healthy. Now,
the budget of UNRWA is so minimal. However, we never give up continuing our project from the sideof Palestinian refugees. I try to do my best to solve this fundamental issue. This is why, we need further
Japanese contribution. I met Hon. Taro Kono, Minister of Foreign Affairs yesterday. We received
positive reply from him. I got the power from his response. Thank you so much.

(Moderator)
Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement
Thank you so much for the wonderful speech. I am impressed by the phrases “No
peace, no health ” “No peace, no nutrition improvement”. I had an experience as a nurse. The issue of
diabetes and life-style related diseases is so serious. It is important for us to make a support system byusing our experience as a medical field. Then, we move to discussions. First, Mr. Aisawa, Chairmanof Parliamentary Association for UNHCR.

Ichiro Aisawa, Chairman of Parliamentary Association for UNHCR

Thank you so much for the opportunity. I am working as a Chairman of the
Parliamentary Association for UNHCR. There are 65 million refugees in the world.
This ratio is really high for a population of 7 billion in the world. Basically, there
is one refugee per 120 people. We need to understand this serious situation, first and foremost. Now,
the issue of refugees is the worst since 1945. Much worse than the Rohingya, Middle-East IS issue.
Many refugees cannot receive fundamental educational services and nutrition support. I visited
Palestine, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Congo and Sudan. UNHCR contributes to establish humansocial security for refugees. UNHCR also supports refugees to provide foods and supplies as well as
UNRWA.
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I am so shocked to hear that U.S government stop to help UNRWA. It is required of a donor
government to contribute to international cooperation with a warm heart. Japan should negotiate with
U.S government for managing appropriate administration. We try to do our best to accomplish SDGs
and Nutrition summit for 2 years from now for 65 million refugees.

Naomi Tokashiki, Vice Minister of Environment (Diet Caucus on
International Maternal and Child Welfare Improvement, Parliamentary
Association for Vaccine Prevention）

I am so happy to attend such a wonderful meeting. Actually, Japan had anexperience of receiving a lot of support after the World War II. My mother is nutritionist because shewants to give children proper nutrition. Through her work, I also engage in nutrition from the aspectof politics. In Tokyo Olympic in 2020, we shall work hard to promote nutrition.
In terms of environment, nutrition in important. By using Japan’s experience, we support developing
countries for nutrition improvement.

(Moderator)
Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement

Next, Mr. Mitsubayashi please.

Hiromi Mitsubayashi, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child
Welfare Improvement,

I realized that education for nutrition is needed via speeches for Mr. Pierre and Dr.
Seita. To solve life-style related diseases, they should understand why balanced
diet is important.
I am a doctor and I contribute to education for nutrition. To improving nutrition among Palestinianchildren, we need to provide education for them. The support from U.S government has stopped. It isquite serious. We must however find further support for sustaining basic needs for them. My power issmall, but I try to do my best in coordination with the other members for Palestinian refugees.

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Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement

Next, Mr. Ubukata please.

Yukio Ubukata, Japan Parliamentarians Federation for Population (JPFP)I belong to Japan Parliamentarians Federation for Population (JPFP). I heard thissession interestingly. I was born in 1947 and Japan situates in a lack of nutrition.
We have to drink powdered skim milk instead of milk in every school meal. I
hated skim milk because it is not tasty like milk. Our generations had raised bysuch school meals and achieved economic development. These skim milks are supported by UnitedStates. Therefore, it is so important to receive donor’s support for achieving development.
I am so impressed “No peace, no health” from Dr. Seita. Society should be healthy! Particularly, we
should care for vulnerable people, like mothers and children.
Not only the issue of refugees, but also the issue of slums is quite serious. In Asian countries, thenumber of slums has decreased. Due to poverty, they have to stay in slums. Sadly, the government
tends to ignore the slum. For solution to be realised, the effort from the government is needed. We
shall start to provide such poor people money and foods. Then, we intervene to see that thesegovernment improve nutrition themselves. Otherwise, everyone will die due to malnutrition.
In my honest opinion, the number of refugee accepted in Japan is very low. However, we struggle tofurther our contribution for refugees from the Japanese government.

(Moderator)
Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement

Next, Mr. Keiichi Koshimizu who visited Gaza, please.

Keiichi Koshimizu, Former diet members, New Komeito

I visited Gaza two years ago. Despite being a blocked area, people have hope forthe future. I was so impressed to see such optimistic people and I shall try my best
as a politician to advance their course. In particular, I remembered one student
said, “I am so happy that Japanese do not leave us and consider us every time”. They also have strong
intention to reconstruct and recover their city.
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Today’s discussion theme “Refugee & Nutrition” is important. Nutrition is related to not only justfood, but also nutrition for the heart, brain (education). We need to establish comprehensive system
for nutrition improvement. At the same time, people should look more carefully into nutrition. We
consider heart and brain nutrition improvement because we are friends and equal. Japan initiate suchsupport in the world. This meeting is kick-off to start this initiation for nutrition.

(Moderator)
Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement

Next, Ms. Toshiko Abe, please.

Toshiko Abe, Secretary General of Diet Caucus on International Maternaland Child Welfare Improvement
We have just discussed Nutrition summit in 2020. JICA and MAFF will prepare
it together. A support system is needed to achieve summit and nutrition
improvement for Japanese initiation.

(Moderator)
Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement

Next, Mr. Motohiro Ono, please.

Motohiro Ono, Secretary of Japan-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship
Association
I have some concern about nutrition issue in the world.
I lived at Middle-East for 13 years; however the situation is worst. Particularly,
the issue of UNRWA budget is quite serious. Unfortunately, the contribution fromJapan has declined in the last 10 years. Lack of funds leads to an unstable society and health issues formother and child worsen. To help the vulnerable people, we should continue to support UNRWA.

(Moderator)
Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement

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Next, Mr. Minoru Kiuchi, please.

Minoru Kiuchi, Parliamentary Association for not cutting off therelationship between family and children
My father was born in 1934. My father’s sister died due to malnutrition and TB.
She was only 16 years old. To solve malnutrition in Japan, the Kitchen car system
was introduced. These knowledge is useful to achieve UHC and SDGs. I support nutrition
improvement by using my experience as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and officers at MoFA.

(Moderator)
Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement

Next, Ms. Takahashi, please.

Chizuko Takahashi, Stop TB Partnership Promotion Parliamentary League
Assembly
I belong to Stop TB Partnership Promotion Parliamentary League Assembly. My
life mission is to reduce the number of TB patients. Nutrition and TB are closely
related. I learned a lot from this session how to achieve SDGs. Thank you so muchfor the opportunity to join in the important session.

(Moderator)
Yayoi Kimura, Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement

Thank you so much for Mr. Pierre and Dr. Seita! Part 2 session is finished. We
move to Part 3, 10 minutes later. Please see the movie about the nutrition improvement.

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Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

My name is Seiji Kihara and I am the moderator of Part 3. I am Secretary Generalof Parliamentary Association for SDGs’ diplomacy. Right now, I call on Mr. Hata to make a speech.

Yuichiro Hata, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for
UNICEFI am a certified childcare worker. It is rare in the diet members. It is so importantfor babies to get proper nutrition for their future and to enhance their capability.
In particular, the first 1,000 days are vital. Malnutrition tends to move from mother to child. If motheris malnourished, she can bear only small children who easily suffer from infectious diseases. Thesebabies lead to increased mortality. From the above reasons, malnutrition has influence to babies
survival. As UNICEF, they focus on the first 1,000 days for babies to protect their lives and implement
nutrition project. This project is in coordination with JICA, MoFA, and private sectors, such as Takeda.
The recent 2 Olympic & Paralympic host countries (UK and Brazil) also organize nutrition summits
foe leading to international discussion about nutrition. As PM. Abe declared Japan’s plans to
implement Nutrition summit in 2020. Through this summit, Japanese government should cooperatewith private sector, academia, international organization and CSOs. Our parliamentary league supports
this summit and promotes nutrition improvement in Japan. I am also looking forward to hearing eachgovernmental activity.

(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

Next, Mr. Masaaki Taniai, Senior Vice-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries will give us some comment.

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Masaaki Taniai, Senior Vice-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries（Parliamentary Association for WFP, Parliamentary Association
for UNICEF , Parliamentary Association for UNHCR, Parliamentary
Association for Vaccine Prevention, Friends of GF Japan Diet Task Force,
Stop TB Partnership Promotion Parliamentary League Assembly）

Thank you so much for your lively participation in this symposium.
We will achieve wonderful result based on this session. I belong to Parliamentary Association for
WFP, Parliamentary Association for UNICEF, Parliamentary Association for UNHCR, Parliamentary
Association for Vaccine Prevention, Friends of GF Japan Diet Task Force, Stop TB Partnership
Promotion Parliamentary League Assembly as well as Minister of Agriculture.
Beforehand, I worked at an NGO to help African and Asian countries. I am interested in the issue ofpoverty and child nutrition. Now, I am inaugurated as a chairman SDGs promoting committee at New
Komeito. End of hunger is one of target of SDGs and nutrition improvement and reduction of foodloss is needed to achieve this target. The important thing is how to proceed after the activities bydeveloping the countries’. This problem cannot be solved by one ministry. We need multi-sectoral
cooperation and public-private cooperation. In addition, this problem cannot be solved by only
Japanese government. International cooperation is needed. After the World war second, Japan had
received the support from UNICEF, WB for nutrition improvement among children. For Tokyo
Olympic in 2020, it is important for us to determine how to contribute to nutrition improvement byusing our experience.

(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

Next, Ms. Chatherine Richard please.

Chatherine Richard , Vice chairman of Scaling Up Nutrition
I am vice chairman of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Also, I am a director of
nutrition division at Save the Children UK. More than 40 countries and over
2,500 organizations contribute to SUN. Save the Children also contributes tonutrition improvement around 120 countries.
I will explain: Why do we contribute to nutrition improvement? How do CSOs contribute to thismission? How do we accomplish nutrition summit in 2020.

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Without nutrition, people face the danger of death. Children tend to die, if they cannot receive proper
nutrition. In particular, if children receive proper diet in the first 1000 days from birth, they live
longer than otherwise.
Despite reducing the number of malnutrition children, still, there are 155 million malnourishedchildren in the world. It is estimated that by 2030, 129 million children will be facing malnutrition.
In 2016, 815 million people were affected by hunger. At the same time, the number of overweightchildren has been on the increase. There are 41 million obese children. The issue of obesity is not
only in the developed countries, but also in the developing countries.
We need continuous discussion to achieve the goal 2 of SDGs and the international nutrition target
by 2025.
While the number of breastfeeding mothers has increased, the number of anemia cases has risen. In
addition, it is difficult for us to stop obesity and overweight problems. It seems to be hard for us toachieve the target by 2025. In the Japanese case, diabetes is high among females, not males.
Anaemia, overweight and obeseconditions are serious issues in Japan. At the same time, lack of data
complicates the issue. We cannot receive appropriate data for children and mothers.
In the newest GNR report, we insist that we need multi-sectoral approach from the aspect ofnutrition, health, education, employment, poverty, equality. This approach should be humancentered.
World bank points out the issue of lack of financing for nutrition. We need additional 7 billion USD
per year to achieve the target by 2025. We need comprehensive approach about support by donor
and establish the financing system at developing countries. In addition, we need to see eachcountries’ situations. We shall decide the priority areas to intervene on in developing countries for
SDGs. The issue of nutrition for babies is of high priority.
Japanese contribution is highly appreciated to solve the issue of nutrition. The characteristic of SUN
is to cooperate with not only governments but also international organizations, CSOs, researchers
and the private sectors. The working fields of SUN are many; health, promoting agricultures,
sanitation, water etc. Also, Save the Children work among the world in coordination with eachgovernment for nutrition improvement.
We set this target under the SMART system (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time
Bound) at the next summit in 2020. If we invest 1 USD for nutrition, we receive among 16 USD in
return. This is the chance for us to disseminate the importance of nutrition investment through thesummit.
The role of Japan is coordination with CSOs, investors, researchers and private sectors as well as
SUN. To achieve this aim, the role of diet members is vital. Let’s strive to accomplish our aim andnutrition summit together!

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(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy
Thank you so much, Catherine.
Next, we move to discussion. First, Mr. Fujisue please.

Discussion:
Kenzo Fujisue, Secretary General of Diet Task Force on Global Polio
Eradication

My major work is polio eradication. Currently, there are 3 countries where polio
exists; Pakistan, Algeria and Afghanistan. Somehow, I want to achieve polio
eradication by 2020 Tokyo Olympic.
I visited Pakistan 2 years ago. I was so surprised that mothers made a group to teach children about
vaccination and sanitation. The name is “Lady Worker Network”. Such a scheme can be applicable inother nations. I also wish to contribute to nutrition improvement and share our idea from polio
eradication experiences.

(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

Next, Mr. Ishida please.

Masahiro Ishida, Deputy Secretary General of Diet Caucus on International
Maternal and Child Welfare Improvement

I am a nurse and I have been contributing to medical care for a long time. From
the aspect of my view, the issue of malnutrition is serious even in Japan. This issue
is related to family, society, and education. In my opinion, education is important in solving
malnutrition.
As Ms. Catherine mentioned, lack of data is serious in the world. We have to establish proper datacollecting system.

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(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

Next, Mr. Mashiko and Mr. Nakatani, please.

Teruhiko Mashiko, Vice chairman of Japan Parliamentarians Federation
for Population (JPFP)I am so happy to participate in this symposium named “Deliver proper nutrition
to all mothers and children!”. Your good work is highly appreciated.
JPFP was established in 1974. JPFP is the parliamental group formed to support the achievement ofsustainable development. Overpopulation, poverty and hunger were serious issues at that time. Basedon our interventions, we continue to discuss environmental issues, food safety and reproduction.
The idea of SDGs is basically a Japanese idea. To achieve SDGs, nutrition is important. Nutrition
improvement cn only be achieved through sustained food security for our people. Malnutrition is
global level issue and has direct impact on children. Proper nutrition leads to bearing healthy children
and preventing unwanted pregnant. JPFP’s activities expand in various fields. I am so happy. For the
future, the role of diet members is needed. We implemented Africa and Asia diet member’s meeting
last September. At this meeting, we set the diet member’s 4 main activities as well as government,
private sector and CSOs to achieve SDGs. To achieve SDGs and keep human’s dignity, JPFP tries its
best in coordination with the other stakeholders. Thank you so much.

Gen Nakatani, Chairman of Parliamentary Association for NPO

The history of Japanese NPO dates back 20 years. We established the system andlaw in 1998. Compared to 23 groups in 1998, there are 51,779 NPOs and 1,056
NPOs regulated by Japanese government now. They work in 20 areas. For
nutrition improvement, Save the Children Japan, World Vision Japan, RESULTS Japan and Network
for Action against Malnutrition are working well together.
The average life expectancy in Japan is the longest in the world (Male: 80, Female: 87). The reason isfood and education for nutrition. Japan has unique systems, such as school meals, social insurance
system and mother and child handbook. We have already exported such good systems to Asian
countries.
In addition, one unique service has been started in Japan. The name is “Canteen for children”. Mothers
gather and cook good diet foods together. Nowadays, some people are trying to make this Japanese23

activity for diet a world heritage!
As seeing NPO’s activities, they work various activities for SDGs. Our group also support all ofactivities for NPO to accomplish nutrition summit in 2020.

Hiroe Makiyama, Deputy Secretary General of Diet Task Force on Global
Polio Eradication

Thank you so much for the opportunity, I am a mother of two children as well asa diet member. My mission is to protect children’s health. I work with Mr. Fujisuein polio eradication and Mr. Mashiko in JPFP.
I implement follow-up meetings for diet members in UNFPA and discuss how to improve healthcare
for mothers and children. I also invited local NGOs to Japan to disseminate actual situation indeveloping countries to the diet members. Sometimes, I go to developing countries directly to hearreal people’s voices, such as Lao. I faced the difficulty of culture and custom differences in sharing
the Japanese knowhow with such people. Some of the customs existing lead to children deaths. It wasso hard for me to negotiate with local people how to stop bad customs for children. Through myactivity, I realize the importance of education for nutrition. I learned a lot in today’s session too. Thankyou.

(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

Now, we move the session from government and private sectors. First, MoFA
please.

Hideo Suzuki, Ambassador, Assistant Minister/ Director-General for
Global Issues of MoFA

I wish to explain about the nutrition summit. MoFA has already started preparation
with the other ministries and CSOs for accomplishing this summit.
Essentially, we would like to show participants the future image of achieving nutrition improvement
through Japanese originality. Therefore, we need further cooperation with ministries and CSOs. In
addition, we plan to collaborate with UK and France (Nutrition summit nations), internationalorganizations, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and NGOs. Expected participants are 300 people
including Presidents, Ministers and Executives.
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According to page 2 of our papers, we have set out the target for nutrition improvement. However,just achieving the target is not enough. Education is needed for people; why proper nutrition isneeded; why investment in food is needed. We need to provide children with this education on aschool based approach.
For the private sectors, they need to develop sustainable products; not just seeing short-term profit.
MoFA invites such companies and has established a good platform for them at the summit.

(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

Next, Cabinet Secretariat please.

Koji Fujimoto, Deputy Director, Office of Healthcare Policy, Cabinet
Secretariat.
I am Fujimoto. I am in charge of the healthy medical strategy. I wish to talk about
one theme about working with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and MHLW in theJapanese Government.
Following the fact that it confirmed it in Japan and Britain joint communique about strengthening anapproach to the global nourishment improvement in a health medical care strategy devised in 2014 forTokyo cage Para in 2020. In response to the British initiative, NFG taken out in Olympics Paralympics
nourishment process, it keeps study development capability such as the superior fortification food ofJapan alive, and it is approved in a Cabinet meeting to push forward international development
including the comprehensive business through the public and private sectors cooperation for the
nourishment improvement of each country including the nations in the developing world.
I support the Japanese Government based on this, and a Nutrition Japan Public-Private Platform started
in 2016. The Japanese Government has been supporting this initiative because it is said that JICA,
food industry center act as co-chair as for this and do it by public-private combination including a
Japanese company. I propose Asia health design on a platform of one nourishment in Asia where aging
is advancing. We must think about this nourishment for the aging in the society and think on how tohave you carry the nutrition part of this.

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(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

Next, MAFF please.

Tadashi Sato, Minister's secretariat, Counsellor, MAFF
I am Sato of the international affairs department. There are three pieces of
documents in the paper called The Promotion Of The International Collaboration
To Contribute To World Food Security. In addition, from the beginning, SeniorVice Minister Taniai called the cooperation with relevant ministries and agencies found each othereasy to talk to. I work on related organizations including foreign affairs, JICA, the Cabinet Secretariat,
but today, this talk concerning the support to the international organization is important for today. In
the field of agriculture and forestry fisheries, I work on rice, beans, potatoes for Africa, and nutrition
improvement seminar concerning starvation, poor measures.
Contribution to WFP business on the second, and enlightenment activity of the knowledge about thenourishment, lower half is good support to the research institute focusing on beans, and the amount of
nutrition products, the increase in production of the yam for money and contribution to international
tropical zones for agriculture research institute in conjunction with the technical training for farmhousein rice production.
The third piece is business by the food companies, but this is money contributions to FAO, and a basic
point is contribution to departments that matter as the Lahti manager pointed out in the lecture today
in Part 1. I shall make a live curriculum among local food compaies, and this shall be in Asia, a seminarin Vietnam and, in the many countries building the e-learning system.
On this occasion, the Cabinet Secretariat for nourishment improvement business promotion platform(NJPPP) found it easy to talk to you all and seek to cooperate with all the Japanese companies.

(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

Next, MoF please.

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Akihiko Yoshida, Director, International Bureau of Development Policy,
MoF

I will explain two things since MoF is very close to WB.
First of all, we support the activities for SUN. I have helped SUN since 2009 (nowphase 2). In 2016, we invested 20 million USD for SUN and SUN implemented 27 projects fornutrition.
Next, I will mention about Japanese initiative for GFF, WB and International organizations. We
support 26 developing countries for nutrition. MoF implement these supports to cooperate with theother stakeholders.

(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

Next, MLHW, JICA and Ajinomoto please.
Tokuaki Shobayashi, Health Chief, Health Service Division, Health Service
Bureau, MHLWMy name is Shoubayashi of MHLW. The MHLW pushed forward the healthmeasure for the problem for a pregnant woman, a child, an adult and the life
stage of all the elderly people each.
I was ever troubled just after the end of the war by nourishment, lack of food when I looked back on
the history. For example, specialists, and dieticians play a key role in educating people how to takethe proper nutrition.
What you should pay attention to in particular is a maternal and child health activity. Thee 1 year
old, one year and a half, 3 years old child examination in particular have a health handbook for themother and child. Various information becomes available for the mother to read. A graph inparticular enters and plots height and the weight of the baby to determine if the baby is growing up
properly. It is such a structure. Through such activities, our country became the world's best
longevity country in the 1980s and 1990s.
On the other hand, in later years, a different problem came out. Because nutrition balance was bad,lifestyle-related diseases, and brain diseases become a problem. Albeit that situation, I havedeveloped a measure called health Japan 21. I advocate for improved nutritional balance. In thismechanism, I shall evaluate contents for PDCA cycle. I will conduct investigations in the whole27

country, and open it for changes and reconsiderations every year. Furthermore, I shall be working at
training dieticians and other specialists needed in nitrition. WHO proposed a healthy life expectancy
from the 90s, but, as for the healthy life expectancy, Japan was always No. 1 for these 20 years. I
thus want to develop experience and knowledge of the Japanese nutrition across the world.

Hideya Yamada, Vice President for Food, Agriculture and Nutrition of
JICA

I shall explain about our activity in Africa. We launched an Initiative for Food andNutrition Security in Africa (IFNA) in TICAD Ⅵ, 2016. This mission is todisseminate Japanese knowledge, technologies about nutrition to Africa. We also have human resource
development for nutrition improvement.
There are 4 characteristics about IFNA; 1) Top-level commitment based; 2) Coordination with
beneficiary governments; 2) Cooperation with international organizations, SUN and NGOs; 4)
Including multi-sectors, such as agriculture, public health, water, sanitation and education.
We shall also share our activities with you. JICA implement the project of Youth Overseas
Cooperation Team who are volunteers for international cooperation. They implement nutrition
improvement project in the grassroot level, such as making recipe, providing good diet. We also teachpeople to improve nutrition and their food life in Uganda. For the government of Ghana, we
implemented the studying tour to Japan to learn Japanese food culture. We continue multi-sectoral
activities in developing countries for achieving IFNA.

Kei Kuriwaki, Senior Advisor of Ajinomoto Foundation

Ajinomoto Foundation is origin from food supplies company, Ajinomoto. We
implement nutrition improvement project in Ghana, Vietnam and internationalNGOs in developing countries. We also made own policy and strategy about
nutrition improvement. We promote our activity for nutrition summit in 2020.
We need to distribute Japanese knowledge to the world, such as mother and child health care book,traditional Japanese food, and the system of nutrition.

(Moderator)
Seiji Kihara, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for SDGs’
diplomacy

Thank you. Then, Ms. Ikuko Inoguchi makes a comment.
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Kuniko Inoguchi, Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for
UNHCR

Thank you so much for the opportunity. I want to mention the following two
things; 1) Further effort is needed to cooperate with governments and CSOs; 2)
Education for nutrition is important. I wish share one slogan with you; “Eat well, Live well, Live long”
To achieve lifelong in every nation, we need our further commitment. I will also try to do my best toachieve nutrition improvement with all parliamentary groups.

(Moderator)
Kenzo Fujisue, Secretary General of Diet Task Force on Global Polio
Eradication

Next, Mr. Miyauchi please.

Hideki Miyauchi, Deputy Secretary General of Paralympic Association for
promoting Tokyo Olympic/ Paralympic in 2020

I am so happy to discuss both nutrition and Olympic in this session. To achieve
SDGs, sports play a key role to make a strong relationship among nations. We
implement Tokyo Olympic/ Paralympic for peaceful world
Nutrition and sports are related. Proper nutrition leads to strong bodies and strong hearts for athletes.
Based on this idea, PM. Abe declared the nutrition summit in 2020. To make the summit successful,we will make our effort to have positive influence for nutrition. Tokyo Olympic/ Paralympic also
supports the nutrition summit. Thank you.

(Moderator)
Kenzo Fujisue, Secretary General of Diet Task Force on Global Polio
Eradication

Thank you so much. Finally, Ms. Akiko Santo says final remarks.

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（Final Remarks）
Akiko Santo, Chairman of Diet Caucus on International Maternal andChild Welfare Improvement

I thank you so much for your great consideration in nutrition improvement amongchildren. There are many children under very unfortunate situations due to war, political conflict etc.
It is so important for the world that we discuss a lot and continue our efforts in each field. Japan takean initiative to achieve nutrition improvement by using Japanese experiences. It would be grateful for
us to receive your further contributrion for nutrition. Thank you so much!

(Moderator)
Kenzo Fujisue, Secretary General of Diet Task Force on Global Polio
Eradication

Thank you so much for your participation!

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Reception
D a t e ： 2018/1/25 13：00~
Chairman：E r i k o I m a i： Deputy Secretary General of Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child
Welfare Improvement
G re e t i n g ：Kojiro Takano：Chairman of Parliamentary Association for WFPMichitaro Watanabe：Secretary General of Parliamentary Association for WFP
Karen Makishima：Deputy Secretary General of Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child
Welfare Improvement
Hiroe Makiyama：Deputy Secretary General of Diet Task Force on Global Polio Eradication
Ichiro Aisawa ：Vice Chairman of Diet Caucus on International Maternal and Child Welfare
Improvement31