The  G8  leaders had a group photo in the front of decorative bamboo on 7 July , 2008, in Hokkaido, Toya Lake , Japan .

From left to right followed by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Medvedev, and the German Chancellor Merkel, British Prime Minister Brown, Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese Prime Minister, U.S. President George W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, French President Sarkozy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.