Two pairs of cities are currently bidding to host the summit:
* Yokohama with Niigata
* Osaka with Kyoto

Yokohama bid to host G8 (2005):  http://www.welcome.city.yokohama.jp/eng/tourism/news/0508/page3.html

Background on G8+5 Climate Summit (Mexico 2006):  http://rtc.revolt.org/node/338

Links:

Anti-Capitalist Action (reports 2001-2004):  http://a.sanpal.co.jp/aca/obsolete/en/
Third World Shop Japan:  http://www.p-alt.co.jp/asante/modules/xfsection/article.php?articleid=20
Peace Depot (Peace Resources Co-operative):  http://www.peacedepot.org/e-news/menunew.htm
Hiroshima Peace Institute:  http://serv.peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/English/
Nagasaki Global Citizens Assembly:  http://www.ngo-nagasaki.org
Year 2000 Campaign to Revitalize Grassroots Voices to Abolish Nuclear Weapons:  http://www.jca.apc.org/2000campaign/index_E.html
Reaching for a Critical Mass of Political Will for Nuclear Disarmament (WILPF):  http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org
Women and Sexual Slavery in Japan:  http://wloe.org/Women-and-sexual-slavery.239.0.html
Nojiren (Homeless in Tokyo, 2000):  http://www.jca.apc.org/nojukusha/nojiren/e-home/

Official G8

Japan took part in the first meeting on the G6 at the Chateau de Rambouillet in 1975, together with Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain and the USA.

Since then, the summit has been held four times under the Japanese presidency: in 1979, 1986 and 1993 in Tokyo, and in 2000 in Okinawa. The next summit in Japan will be in 2008.

Last G8 Summit in Japan 2000:

International Forum for People's Security was held in Okinawa from June 29-July 2, 2000:
 http://www.jca.apc.org/ppsg/oifps/
 http://www.jca.apc.org/ppsg/oifps/index-en.html
Contents and Objectives:  http://www.jca.apc.org/peoplessecurity/whatsps-en.html


The Japan 2008 G8 Summit and the Asian New Deal: By KAWATO Akio (March 26, 2007):  http://www.ceac.jp/e/commentary/070326.pdf

Hiroshima and Nagasaki:  http://www.all4all.org/2005/08/2036.shtml
Hiroshima 60 years later:  http://www.all4all.org/2005/08/2028.shtml


G8 2007 in Heiligendamm:
 http://www.agp.org/g82007