Keio University and GSPA had joint international conference on 21st February. In session 1, issues in Korean central government operation were discussed by Dong Wook Kim, professor of SNU, who pointed out “The Blue House Government” problem. This means the Blue House holds all the power and unwilling to allocate decision-making and personnel authority to central government agencies represented by ministers. Next, Masataka Harada from Fukuoka University introduced relationship between war and suicide rates with evidence from the stragegic bombing to Japan during WWII. Then Jungho Park from Keimyung University discussed citizen’s policy acceptance for new renewable energy and technology. Moderator Soon Eun Kim from Seoul National University and discussant Wonhyuk Cho from Victoria University and Takeshi Iida from Doshisha University contributed greatly to the session. After having a short coffee time break, participants continued to have session 2. More details can be found in attached image file.