On July 9, 2008, a lecture session was held at the Northeast Asian History Foundation, to which Watanabe Akio, the Vice Chairman of the Research Institute for Peace and Security, was invited as the guest speaker. An expert on diplomacy and relations between East Asian countries, he spoke on Japan’s Efforts for the Restoration of Diplomacy in Asia and the Fukuda Administration’s New Relations with Korea. A lively Q&A session concerning the recent movement between Korea and Japan followed the lecture