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Prime Minister’s Visit to the United States: Fifth Day
April 30, 2015
Photograph of the public symposium hosted by the Silicon Valley Japan Innovation Program
Photograph of the breakfast meeting with members of the U.S. science and technology community
Photograph of the exchange of opinions with members of the U.S. business community, technology industry, and venture capital industry
Photograph of the exchange of opinions with leaders and other members of Silicon Valley
Photograph of the Prime Minister visiting the headquarters of Tesla Motors
Photograph of the Prime Minister visiting the headquarters of Facebook
Photograph of the Prime Minister delivering an address at the Gladstone Institutes
Photograph of the Prime Minister receiving a courtesy call from the Governor of the State of California (1)
Photograph of the Prime Minister receiving a courtesy call from the Governor of the State of California (2)
Photograph of the Prime Minister delivering an address at the cocktail reception and banquet held for contributors to Japan-U.S. exchange
Photograph of the cocktail reception and banquet held for contributors to Japan-U.S. exchange
On the morning of April 30 (local time), Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is currently visiting Washington D.C. in the United States of America, attended a breakfast meeting with members of the U.S. science and technology community.
In the afternoon, the Prime Minister visited San Francisco, where he exchanged opinions with members of the U.S. business community, technology industry, and venture capital industry. Afterwards, the Prime Minister attended the Silicon Valley Japan Innovation Program and other events at Stanford University.
Prime Minister Abe then visited the headquarters of Tesla Motors and the headquarters of Facebook, and he held talks with both Tesla Motors CEO Mr. Elon Musk and Facebook CEO Mr. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. Afterwards the Prime Minister visited the Gladstone Institutes, which are affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, where he held talks with Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, Gladstone Institutes Senior Investigator (and Director of Kyoto University’s Center for iPS Cell Research and Application), and other members of the Institutes.
In the evening, Prime Minister Abe received a courtesy call from Mr. Edmund G. Brown Jr., Governor of the State of California, following which he attended a cocktail reception and banquet held for contributors to Japan-U.S. exchange.
