On July 21, 2026, Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) held the Health Policy Summit 2026, “Economic Security and the Future of the Healthcare System.”

In recent years, health policy has shifted from a largely domestic matter to an increasingly geoeconomic and geopolitical issue. Titled “Economic Security and the Future of the Healthcare System,” the Summit brought together stakeholders from industry, government, academia, and civil society to examine how policy should be designed in an era in which this shift has become a core structural factor in health policy. The roundtable discussion took up the Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) pricing policy, which grew out of U.S. tariff measures, and explored possible solutions for Japan to pursue. The key points raised on the day are organized under four headings in the report: supply, negotiation, public finance, and consensus-building.

This year, instead of a lecture format, the meeting adopted a roundtable layout in which the participants’ tables were arranged around the panelists seated in the center of the venue, enabling discussion on an equal footing.

[Overview]

• Date & Time: Tuesday, July 21, 2026; 15:00-17:30 JST (Reception: 17:30-19:00)
• Venue: Hikari Room, Imperial Hotel (1-1-1, Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
• Language: Japanese and English (with simultaneous interpretation)

[Program] (Honorifics omitted. Affiliations and positions are those held at the time of the event.)

15:00-15:05	Purpose of the Summit
	Ryoji Noritake (Chair, Health and Global Policy Institute)
15:05-15:15	Opening Remarks
	Hirobumi Niki (State Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare)
15:15-15:20	Introduction of the 2nd Kiyoshi Kurokawa Award Recipient
15:20-15:35	Remarks from Diet Members in Attendance
15:40-17:25	Roundtable Discussion “Economic Security and the Future of the Healthcare System”
	Panelists: Shinsuke Amano (Chair, The Japan Federation of Cancer Patient Groups / CEO, Group Nexus Japan) Hiroo Inoue (Director-General, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)) Teruyuki Katori (Representative Director, Future Institute Wolong / Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Hyogo) Glen S. Fukushima (Visiting Fellow, Stanford University) Ken Jimbo (Managing Director, International House of Japan / Co-Director of the Research Institute for Advanced Innovation and GeoStrategy (RAIS) / Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University) Kayo Takuma (Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University) Koji Yano (Director, Institute of Social Security Policy, International University of Health and Welfare / Former Vice-Minister of Finance) Moderator: Ryoji Noritake (Chair, Health and Global Policy Institute)
17:25-17:30	Closing Remarks
	Shinsuke Muto (Vice Chair, Health and Global Policy Institute)
17:30-19:00	Reception

(Photographed by: Kazunori Izawa)

[Event Report] Health Policy Summit 2026