# Topics V. Towards the Successful Implementation of the APEC 2010

The APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting will be held in Yokohama City of Kanagawa Prefecture on November 13-14, 2010. The Cooperation and understanding of the general public is requested to make the APEC 2010 a success.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting and the APEC Ministerial Meeting are going to be held in Yokohama City of Kanagawa Prefecture on November 13-14, 2010 and on November 10-11, 2010, respectively. In addition, related ministerial meetings will be held from June to November of 2010 in seven locations across Japan.

To implement APEC security operations, the police will check vehicles, regulate traffic, and conduct other measures in order to proactively prevent unlawful activities including terror attacks, and ensure the safety of VIPs and the smooth implementation of events.

The general public may suffer inconveniences due to this event. Thus, we ask for the understanding of the public regarding the APEC security operations, as well as for their cooperation in matters such as dialing 110 if suspicious objects are discovered.

## (1) The Status of Past APEC Events

The APEC Ministerial Meeting will be the second to be hosted by Japan since the APEC meeting in Osaka, which was held 15 years ago in 1995. For the APEC Osaka meeting, there were concerns of terrorist or guerrilla incidents by Japanese extreme leftist and extreme rightist groups but police were able to prevent such incidents by implementing various security measures through the mobilization of a total of 25,000 police officers including special teams dispatched from across Japan.

In recent APEC meetings and other events, extreme groups advocating anti-globalism protested against APEC, rolling out radical resistance activities in the vicinity of the venues. When the APEC meeting was held in Busan of Korea in 2005, farmers' groups, labor organizations, citizens' groups, and others rolled out demonstrations with a maximum crowd of about 30,000 people. During the demonstrations, some participants turned violent and conducted extreme and unlawful protests by throwing stones and wielding steel pipes at police.

Table V-1 APEC Summit Meeting Venues since the Summit Meeting in Busan Korea

Table V-1: APEC Summit Meeting Venues since the Summit Meeting in Busan, Korea
Year	Hosting Country	Hosting City
2005	Korea	Busan
2006	Vietnam	Hanoi
2007	Australia	Sydney
2008	Peru	Lima
2009	Singapore	Singapore
2010	Japan	Yokohama

APEC protesters clash with police at the Busan APEC meeting

## (2) Situations Concerning Hosting the APEC in Japan

The situation of international terrorism remains serious with incidents such as the attempted terrorist attack on an American passenger aircraft in December 2009. We cannot deny the possibility of Japan becoming a target of terrorism as leaders of the Asia Pacific region gather for the APEC summit meeting. Since the summit meeting will be held in an urban city within the Tokyo metropolitan area, police must be on the lookout for terrorist attacks on public transportation systems including railroads and large-scale leisure facilities. There are also concerns that protests staged