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Member from Tokyo University of Science to Participate in the United States Department of State's International Visitor Program The US Department of State has been implementing an International Visitor Program (IVP) where people from the host country who are recognized as future leaders by the embassies and consulates of various countries around the world are invited to the United States for a visit. For the 2009 IVP, Professor Mitsutoshi Yatsunami of the Tokyo University of Science窶冱 Faculty of Science Division I has been selected to participate as a member. The IVP has been implemented 62 times in the past. Alumni of this program include over 200 people with experience as heads of state, over 1,500 people with experience as cabinet members; currently, approximately 40 IVP alumni are serving as heads of state. In addition, several thousand distinguished politicians, economics, cultural figures, and journalists are participating in this program. Japan窶冱 participation in the IVP started in 1953, with approximately 2,300 participants up until now. Participants include people who are active in various sectors of Japanese society, such as Kenzaburo Oe and Haruki Murakami, winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, former Prime Ministers Toshiki Kaifu and Morihiro Hosokawa, and Jiro Shinbo. Reference: Distinguished participants from various countries around the world Tony Blair (1986, 1992), Margaret Thatcher (1967), Gerhard Schroder (1981), Hamid Karzai (1987), Muhammad Anwar al- Sadat (1966), Atal Behari Vajpayee (1960), F.W. de Klerk (1976), Megawati Sukarnoputri (1989), Mahathir bin Mohammad (1976), Chen Shui-bian (1990), Kim Tae-jung (1965), Kim Young-sam (1964)
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