H.E. Dr Khalil Hassan, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to Japan, attended the Sasakawa Peace Foundation Lecture “The British Perspective on the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula” held at Nippon Foundation. The speakers were Prof. Rory miller, Middle East & Mediterranean Studies, king’s College London, and Prof. Clive Jones, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds and Prof. Osamu Miyata, University of Shizuoka was the Commentator. The lecture was held in order to keep abreast of the rapidly changing situation in the Middle Eastern political situation.