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The ‘G7 2016 Ise-Shima Summit’ was held in Ise-Shima, Mie prefecture on May 26-27. Six members of our Association FUSION were dispatched to support and accommodate the foreign press and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as language personnel.

We departed Shizuoka the day before and participated in the orientation.

The security was so strict that police officers stood on the roads every 50-100m. And also all the people who entered the area were subjected to a strict check almost the same as airport security. There were a lot of security personnel who had keen eyes everywhere in the area. In particular, on the last day of Summit when the conferences of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, Prime Minister Cameron of UK and Prime Minister Orlando of France were held at the hotels, a number of security personnel and members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were very serious and the atmosphere was filled with tension.

It was a pity that we didn’t have a good opportunity to use English, but we had a very valuable experience in that we were able to be a part of such a big international event which we had often seen on TV.