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Grand Opening Featuring Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Grand Opening Featuring Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
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March 30, 2016
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On March 30th, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan visited Hudson Institute to celebrate the grand opening of our new Washington headquarters, the Betsy and Walter Stern Policy Center. Abe, Hudson’s 2013 Herman Kahn Award honoree and a longtime friend of the Institute, spoke warmly about Hudson, its leadership, and our long tradition of “thinking the unthinkable.”
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