The Pacific Future Forum 2025
was staged in Tokyo, Japan
on 29 – 30 August
The Forum exists to strengthen the defence, security, technology, and trading relationships between democratic nations.
On 29-30 August 2025, the Pacific Future Forum (PFF’25) was hosted in the UK aircraft carrier, HMS PRINCE OF WALES, during its visit to Tokyo as part of the Carrier Strike Group deployment to the Indo-Pacific. It was the seventh iteration of the Future Forum.
PFF’25 is an international summit dedicated to strengthening the defence, security, technology and trading relationships between like-minded democratic nations. The aim is to help shape responses to the geopolitical trends and strategic challenges confronting the UK and its key allies, including Japan, the United States and partners across the Indo-Pacific. PFF’25 convened high-level political, diplomatic, military, industrial and academic engagement over two consecutive days in the UK’s flagship while alongside in Tokyo Bay.