United Nations

Efforts are being made to actively introduce international regulations designed to improve the status of women, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the “Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,” and discussions by the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
In 2009, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women reviewed the 6th Periodic Report on Japan's State of Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which Japan submitted in 2008.

In March 2011, a special meeting for the 54th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women “Beijing + 15” was held at the United Nations headquarters, and a statement was issued by Ms. Nishimura, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan and senior representative at the meeting.
Japan is also actively working to make other contributions such as through collaboration with UN Women, which was inaugurated in January 2011 and of which Japan is one of its initial Executive Board Members.

• Beijing+15
• Beijing+10
• Women 2000（Beijing+5）
• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
• Commision on the Status of Women (CSW)
  • Statement By Ms. Hiroko Hashimoto, Repersentative of Japan at the Fifty-fifth Session of the United Nations Commision on the Status of Women [PDF]
  • Conclusion of the Fifty-fifth Session of the United Nations Commision on the Status of Women [PDF]

APEC

• APEC2012
  
  • The APEC Leadership Forum on Women: Powerhouse for Economic Growth (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Website)
• APEC/WES2011
• APEC2010
  

  In 2010 Japan served as chair of APEC, and as a result three meetings related to women were held in Japan. The three meetings, held one after another, were the 15th Women Leaders Network (WLN) meeting held in Tokyo in September, the 8th
  Gender Focal Point Network (GFPN) meeting held in Ranzan-machi, Saitama in September, and the Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit (WES) meeting held in the City of Gifu in October. At the WLN meeting, proposals to be made to the APEC leaders and Cabinet members were adopted, and the importance of women's activeness in society in light of the proposals was reflected in reports of the results of high-level meetings, such as the declaration by the APEC leaders.

  • "Report to SCE　@8th APEC Gender Focal Point Network (GFPN) Meeting (2010)"
  • 15th APEC Women Leader Network (WLN) Meeting (2010)
  • Kick-off Seminar towards 2010 APEC WLN Meeting in Japan (March 24, 2010)

East Asia Gender Equality Ministerial Meeting

• The Fourth East Asia Gender Equality Ministerial Meeting (17 - the 18 November 2011 in Siem Reap, Cambodia)
• The Third East Asia Gender Equality Ministerial Meeting (25 - 26 June 2009 in Seoul, Republic of Korea)
• The second East Asia Gender Equality Ministerial Meeting (6-7 December 2007 in New Delhi, India)
• The First East Asia Gender Equality Ministerial Meeting (30 June - 1 July 2006 in in Tokyo, Japan)

ASEAN Committee on Women +3 (ACW+3)