May 26, 2016: To boost the status among the world’s journalist, the Japan government plan to open an International Media Center in Ise,Mie Prefecture, for media associates covering the Group of Seven summit.

Although this apparent hospitality toward the press, meanwhile, the government is denying them, apparently for security reason, what they need most: entree to the meeting that begins today.

According to the Foreign Ministry, “about 6,000 journalists and other media-related people have registered for entry to the IMC, which takes up all of the massive Sun Arena stadium and its attached sports facilities.”

As per the ministry, “Staff from 138 overseas media outlets and 107 Japanese companies is expected to attend the annual event, which this year is hosted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe”

The central Govt. is arranging to spend ¥60 billion on the meeting, ¥34 billion of which will be eaten up by security events to stop acts of terrorism and other potential crimes marking visiting world leaders, involving Barack Obama, the U.S. President.

He said, “the registration process for journalists was “very complicated” and the Japanese government is rather slow in giving information to the press at the media center.

However, Svenning Dalgaard, one more journalist at the IMC and an international editor for TV 2 News in Denmark, said, “He’s paying the closest attention to economic issues that will be discussed at the upcoming summit sessions”

“There is worry that Japan may be trying to lower its Japanese currency, the yen, in order to try to export its own economic problems to other countries,” he said.

The hope, then, is “that you can get an agreement that no country is going to manipulate its currencies,” he added

BBC reporter requested secrecy said, “He is particularly interested in China-related issues and whether Abe will use “robust language” against China’s territorial assertiveness.”

The reporter added that, “Britain has spent so much “diplomatic energy” in recent months building a close relationship with Beijing that British Prime Minister David Cameron is unlikely to criticize it himself.”

Reporter said, “I think Britain wouldn’t want to do it themselves. They don’t want to upset their new friend,”