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International Forum: Sustainable Ocean and G7 - Toward G7 Sapporo Climate, Energy and Environment Ministerial Meeting in 2023
On April 6, 2023, the Ocean Policy Research Institute organized the International Forum "Sustainable Ocean and G7 - Toward the G7 Sapporo Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers' Meeting in 2023" at the International Conference Hall of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation.

International Conference on Achieving Ocean Equity: Innovative, Fair, Inclusive and Sustainable Strategies and Blue Impact Investments, co-hosted by the ADBI and ANCORS (Wollongong, Australia)
The Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, together with the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), hosted the "International Conference on Achieving Ocean Equity: Innovative, Fair, Inclusive and Sustainable Strategies and Blue Impact Investments" in Wollongong, Australia, from February 27 to March 1, 2023.
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[Event Report] Online Workshop on "Think Tank-University Social Responsibility and Blue Impact"
The Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and the Taiwan-Japan Alliance of Local Revitalization and Social Practice (TJ Alliance) jointly hosted an online workshop on "Think Tank-University Social Responsibility and Blue Impact" on January 16-17, 2023.

Researcher Hajime TANAKA received the Best Poster Presentation Award at PICES 2022
Mr. Hajime Tanaka, researcher of OPRI, received the Best Poster Presentation Award for his research "Japanese Consumers' Demand for Traceability Information On Tokyo Bay Fish Passport" at the PICES-2022 Annual meeting held at Busan.
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[Event Report] "Blue Economy and Blue Finance" Book Launch and Policy Dialogue at the 55th Asian Development Bank Annual Meeting
The Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation co-hosted the “Blue Economy and Blue Finance” Book Launch and Policy Dialogue with the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security (ANCORS) at the 55th Asian Development Bank (ADB) Annual Meeting on 26 September 2022.

Digest video of the opening interview of the White Paper on the Oceans and Ocean Policy in Japan 2022
Digest video of the opening interview of the White Paper on the Oceans and Ocean Policy in Japan 2022