Events
Photo Exhibition
My Neighbors
by Kimimasa Mayama
(Main Bar and Masukomi Sushi Bar)
Saturday, February 4 to March 2, 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
11:30-12:30 Champagne Buffet, Media Room
13:00-16:00 Hamlet" Theatre Creation
Machiko Miura
Jazz and Chanson Singer
New York Giants vs. New England Patriots
FCCJ Media Room, Monday Morning, February 6, 2012 from 8:00am
PRESS CONFERENCE
Takanori Eto,
Plaintiff in Nuclear Power Legal Case
Book Break
"My Japanese Table: A Lifetime of Cooking with Friends and Family"
By Debra Samuels
Tuesday, February 7, 2012、from 6.15 pm to 8.30 pm
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Satoshi Kamata, Freelance Journalist
Kenzaburo Oe, Author & Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature
Keiko Ochiai, Author & Manager of Crayon House
Special documentary screening followed by a Q&A session with director Toshikuni Doi and subjects Kimiko Nezu and Nobuo Dohi
TRUE TO MYSELF ("Watashi" wo Ikiru)
Japan,2010 138 minutes
Director: Toshikuni Doi
Featuring: Kimiko Nezu, Miwako Sato, Nobuo Dohi
Film courtesy of Urayasu Documentary Office and Sleepin'
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Yoshiaki Sakaguchi
Director, Policy Studies Department, NIDS
Masayuki Masuda, Senior Fellow,
Northeast Asia Division, Regional Studies Department, NIDS
The Urban Achievers
Country, Hillbilly Boogie and Blues
PRESS CONFERENCE
Hiroshi Osaki, CEO & Representative Director,
Yoshimoto Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Daiichi Hirata, Director, Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports,
Okinawa Prefecture Office
*Free Cocktail party follows featuring professional foreign performers of Rakugo or Japanese story telling.
*Date of Film Festival: March 24- March 31.
Foreign correspondents invited to send applications
Noh Play by Tsunao Yamai
山井綱雄、能の夕べ
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 6:30pm
Philip Woo & Ashton Moore
Piano and Vocal Duo Presenting Soul, Pop and Jazz
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Hiroshi Mizohata, Commissioner, Japan Tourism Agency, MLIT
SAMPLE THE EXOTIC AND UNIQUE CULTURE OF
"THE PEARL OF THE INDIAN OCEAN"
The Sri Lanka Airlines presents one return air ticket to Sri Lanka.
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, Doors open at 6.30 pm
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Jiro Ishimaru,
Chief Editor of "Rimjin-gang", Asia Press
PRESS CONFERENCE
Erwin Vermeulen, Sea Shepherd Volunteer
Scott West, Director for Investigations, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Paul Fleisher and
The Tokyo Jazz Essentials
Cherry Blossoms
Sunday, February 26, 2012, from 11:30 am to 2 pm
Book Break
"Kazi Ghiyasuddin"
Speakers: Author, Kazi Ghiyasuddin,
Rosa Maria Falvo (Editor), Monzurul Huq (Contributor)
Monday, February 27, 2012, from 6.15 go 8.30 pm
Sayonara Party for Kenneth Cukier
of The Economist and FCCJ director 2010-12
6:30 p.m., Monday, February 27, 2012
PRESS CONFERENCE
Jan Vande Putte, Greenpeace International, Radioactivity Safety Advisor
Wakao Hanaoka, Greenpeace Japan, Campaigner Manager
Kazue Suzuki, Greenpeace Japan, Nuclear Campaigner Nuclear Desk
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Naoto Matsumura, Farmer living inside the Fukushima Red Zone
Katsunobu Onda, Author of "Tepco: The Dark Empire"
PRESS CONFERENCE
Sebastian Coe, Chair, London 2012
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Koichi Kitazawa, Yoichi Funabashi & Tetsuya Endo,
The Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Video screening: 6:00 - 6:45 pm
Panel discussion: 6:45 - 7:45pm (in English and Japanese)
Q&A: 7:45 - 8:30 pm (in English and Japanese)
WOMEN PIONEERS: FUSAE ICHIKAWA
Japan, 1975 35 minutes (English voiceover)
Produced by Haruko Watanabe, President of HKW
Photo Exhibition
Images of Tohoku
curated by Zen Foto Gallery
(Main Bar and Masukomi Sushi Bar)
Saturday, March 3 to April 6, 2012
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Tomas Kåberger, Executive Board Chair, the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation