{"id":20831,"date":"2025-05-15T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T04:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/?p=20831"},"modified":"2025-05-22T21:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:14:49","slug":"%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e7%b6%ad%e6%96%b0%e3%81%ae%e4%bc%9a%e3%81%ae%e6%96%8e%e8%97%a4%e3%82%a2%e3%83%ac%e3%83%83%e3%82%af%e3%82%b9%e8%a1%86%e8%ad%b0%e9%99%a2%e8%ad%b0%e5%93%a1%e3%81%8c%e4%b8%96%e7%95%8c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/2025\/05\/15\/20831\/","title":{"rendered":"At an exchange-of-views meeting between The Elders and Diet members belonging to The Japanese Parliamentary Committee for World Federation, Representative Alex Sait\u014d pointed out that democracy is in crisis internationally and declared his determination to confront the challenge through united, cross-party action. (15 May 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/f1b19e4881d24e2ce68d12842a3a097a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20822 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/f1b19e4881d24e2ce68d12842a3a097a-640x424.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/f1b19e4881d24e2ce68d12842a3a097a-640x424.png 640w, https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/f1b19e4881d24e2ce68d12842a3a097a-1024x678.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/f1b19e4881d24e2ce68d12842a3a097a-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/f1b19e4881d24e2ce68d12842a3a097a.png 1416w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 15 May 2025, former presidents, former UN Secretaries-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureates who make up <strong>The Elders<\/strong> met non-partisan Diet members of <strong>The Japanese Parliamentary Committee for World Federation<\/strong> in the Special Room on Basement Level 1 of the First Members\u2019 Office Building of the House of Representatives. During the lively discussion, Representative Sait\u014d observed that liberal ideals are under attack worldwide, emphasised the difficulty of practising cooperation and mutual assistance in such an atmosphere, and affirmed that the Committee\u2019s cross-party solidarity is an essential asset in responding to these threats. <em>Reporter: Koki Imon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full text of Representative Alex Sait\u014d\u2019s remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I feel that democracy is under threat not only in Japan but throughout the world. Liberal ideals are under attack, and it has become extremely difficult to foster cooperation and mutual assistance. Precisely for that reason, Japan must continue to make contributions and undertake initiatives that accord with the comments we have heard from you today. We intend to stand united\u2014across party lines\u2014and give our utmost. I ask for your continuing advice and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 May 2025, former presidents, former UN Secretaries-General and N&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ja","en","fr"],"languages":{"ja":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20833,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20831\/revisions\/20833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacgg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}