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Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of European Unification

University of the Sacred Heart Building No.4 / Sacred Heart Global Plaza

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Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894 – 1972) was born in Tokyo, Japan as the second son of Heinrich Coudenhove-Kalergi, an Austro-Hungarian count and diplomat, and Japanese woman, Mitsu Aoyama.

He spent his adolescence on Bohemian family estates in Ronsperg, known today as Poběžovice. While spending most of his life outside the country, he had Czechoslovakian citizenship and had interacted with Tomáš Masaryk, the president of Czechoslovakia and Prime Minister, Edvard Beneš.

Coudenhove-Kalergi made history as a proponent of the Pan-European movement, the forerunner of modern European unification thought. His first book, Pan-Europa, was published in 1923.

Coudenhove-Kalergi who was born in Tokyo as a half-Japanese, received numerous honors in his later years in Japan, including an honorary doctorate from Nihon University, an honorary citizen of Hiroshima, the first Peace Prize from the Kajima International Peace Research Institute, and an audience with the Emperor Hirohito.

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Sep 21 (Thu) 2023-Oct 27 (Fri) 2023