The Parliamentary Music Members' League, a non-partisan organization of Diet (national assembly) members, is set to observe its thirtieth anniversary. This milestone will be observed November 1, 2007 by a celebration on the occasion of a forum about Japan's role in culture and the arts.

The main theme of the November 1 event will be "Realizing Japan's role as a source of culture and art." Entitled "Carrying on traditional culture and creating it anew," the forum's coordinator is Taeko Nagai, the executive vice president of NHK (Japan's public broadcasting corporation), a journalist and a director of the Japan Association of Classical Music Presenters. It will feature a panel consisting of Ikuyo Nakamichi (pianist), Morio Ikeda (former president of Shiseido Co., chairman of the Public Interest Corporation Commission), Kazuo Ogura (former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan Foundation president), and Tamotsu Aoki (Minister of Cultural Affairs).

The parliamentary members music league was formed in 1977 by a nonpartisan group of 36 Diet members, with Shigesaburo Maeo as its first chairman. In the thirty years since then it has worked intensively on such issues bearing on the vitality of musical culture as the regulation of businesses that rent out music recordings, the establishment of the Japan Arts Council, a law facilitating lifelong musical learning, the Fundamental Law for Promotion of Culture and the Arts, and issues in copyright law. Hakuo Yanagisawa is currently serving as the fourth chairman. The league now has more than sixty members.

The celebration will feature performances by the Diet chorus and Gi!nz (pronounced "GHEE-EENS"), a band composed other Diet members. More than 250 persons associated with music, cinema, theater and other cultural arenas will be there to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary celebration and give their support for continued meaningful work in the promotion of cultural policies.