“Japan Global Dialogue” is NGO to Facilitate Dialogues on Global Challenges.
About Us
Japan Global Dialogue (JGD) is a nongovernmental organization founded in 2019 in Japan. It aims to facilitate dialogue between stakeholders around the world to address global challenges, including military conflicts, global warming, droughts, and pandemics. JGD especially focuses on facilitating dialogue between parties to military conflicts so that conflicting parties will find their solutions through dialogue and negotiation across the globe.
See the detail of the purpose here.
About Leadership
President: Dr. Daisaku Higashi
Professor in the Center for Global Education and Discovery at Sophia University in Tokyo.
About Us
Japan Global Dialogue (JGD) is a nongovernmental organization founded in 2019 in Japan. It aims to facilitate dialogue between stakeholders around the world to address global challenges, including military conflicts, global warming, droughts, and pandemics. JGD especially focuses on facilitating dialogue between parties to military conflicts so that conflicting parties will find their solutions through dialogue and negotiation across the globe.
See the detail of the purpose here.
President: Dr. Daisaku Higashi
Professor in the Center for Global Education and Discovery at Sophia University in Tokyo.
About Leadership
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Feb 9, 2026: Prof. Daisaku Higashi, President of Japan Global Dialogue, delivered a special lecture on “Challenges of Mediation and Peacebuilding in an Age of Division: The War in Gaza, Ukraine, South Sudan, and Afghanistan”(hosted by the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies in Qatar)
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Feb. 4, 2026: Japan Global Dialogue will co-host the seminar, “Kyocera’s Challenge in Renewable Energy and Its Contribution to Society” with Mr. Hideo Tanimoto, President and Representative Director, Kyocera Corporation (2026年2月4日: 京セラ株式会社 谷本秀夫 代表取締役社長をお迎えしての特別セミナー「京セラの自然再生エネルギーへの挑戦と社会貢献」を共催します。)
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Jan. 15, 2026: Prof. Daisaku Higashi, President of Japan Global Dialogue, showed himself as a commentator in NHK Newsroom Tokyo (English Program), “Policy proposal on Japan’s role in sustaining ceasefire in Gaza”, Interview. [You can see the link of the interview here.]
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Nov. 11, 2025: Prof. Daisaku Higashi, President of Japan Global Dialogue, delivered a lecture on “Challenges of Sustainable Ceasefire and Policy Proposal” on Special Palestine Session in “World Peace Forum” (co-hosted by the government of Indonesia)
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Nov. 4, 2025: Prof. Daisaku Higashi, President of Japan Global Dialogue, showed himself as a commentator in TV Asahi WIDE！SCRAMBLE, ”Civil war in Sudan and its worsening situations”