G2SD is a new interdisciplinary program offered by the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies at Tohoku University. It fosters the ability to confront the common challenges of global governance and sustainable development for all humankind through critical theory-testing and problem-solving research.

On December 21, 2018, the then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Taro Kono, and other speakers from industry, academia, and government gathered in Sendai for a heated discussion on what Japan can do as a country, government, university, region, corporation, and citizen from the perspective of developing global human resources to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular, what we can communicate to the world based on our experiences with the Great East Japan Earthquake and other disasters, On December 21, 2018, then Foreign Minister Taro Kono and other leading-edge speakers gathered in Sendai to engage in heated discussions from their respective perspectives in industry, academia, government, and the community.

As we enter the 21st century, we are told that we need a cooperative framework for global politics, known as global governance. What is needed is a multilateral framework to address issues such as financial problems, refugee issues, and the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) in the absence of a world government.

How should Japan deal with these issues and what should be its goal, and on December 13, 2019, we discussed these issues through two issues: Japan's engagement with the G20 and the search for reconciliation between Japan and Korea.