Press Events

PRESS CONFERENCE Japan's Role in the EV industry Koji Endo, Managing Director, Head of Equity Research, SBI Securities Co., Ltd. Christopher Richter, CLSA Securities Japan, Deputy Head of Research 11:00-12:00 Thursday, March 30, 2023 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) Beginning...

PRESS CONFERENCE Japan and the G7 process – More than meets the eye Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean, The Asian Development Bank Institute / Think7 Japan Lead Chair Yukari Takamura, Vice-President for International Affairs, Science Council of Japan, Professor at the Institute for Future Initiatives, The University...

SCREENING and PRESS CONFERENCE Predator – BBC Documentary on Johnny Kitagawa Mobeen Azhar, Journalist and filmmaker Megumi Inman, Documentary director and filmmaker 14:00-16:00 Friday, March 17, 2023 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) Screening: 14:00-15:00 / Press Conference: 15:00-16:00 *Speakers are...

PRESS CONFERENCE Japan-Korean Relations and the Kishida-Yoon Summit Rui Matsukawa, Senator, Liberal Democratic Party 11:00-12:00 Thursday, March 16, 2023 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives in Tokyo Thursday to meet Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The...

PRESS CONFERENCE Ukrainian Doctors on the Wartime Healthcare System Tetiana Yatsenko, Senior researcher, Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of NAS of Ukraine Oleksandra Riabets, Medical student, Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv 11:00-12:00 Wednesday, March 15, 2023 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.)...

PRESS CONFERENCE Overview of the Foreign Relations of Jordan: The Road Ahead Ayman Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister / Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 17:30-18:30 Tuesday, March 14, 2023 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) If...

PRESS CONFERENCE Ending the Stigma Against HPV Vaccine in Japan Riko Muranaka, Medical doctor and journalist Lecturer, Graduate School of Kyoto University School of Medicine 11:00-12:00 Wednesday, March 8, 2023 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) In 2010 Japan began offering...

PRESS CONFERENCE Survivors Urge G7 Leaders To Take Strong Action To End Child Sexual Abuse Ikuko Ishida, Founder of Be Brave Japan  Robert A. Shilling Jr., Co-Founder, Brave Movement Noriko Shibata, Advocacy Senior Advisor, World Vision Japan 11:00-12:00 Thursday, March 2, 2023 (The speech and...

PRESS CONFERENCE Nobuyuki Matsutake, Former member of Japanese Communist Party (JCP) 15:00-16:00 Monday, February 27, 2023 (The speech will be in English and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.) Japan's Communist Rebel Speaks Out The Japanese Communist Party is the oldest...

PRESS CONFERENCE Sergey Korsunsky, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Japan *Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Ambassador to Japan *Haitze Siemes, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the European Union to Japan 10:00-11:30 Friday, February 24, 2023 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) *Rahm...