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PRESS CONFERENCE No State Funeral for Shinzo Abe Ken Takada, Joint Representative of the "Don't Wage War, Don't Destroy Article 9! Joint Action Committee Masaki Ina, Advisor, Peace Research Institute, International Christian University Masaki Gouro, Representative Caretaker of National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales...

PRESS CONFERENCE “What a Taiwan crisis would mean for Japan and the region” Amanda Hsiao, Senior Analyst for China, Crisis Group 11:00-12:00 Friday, September 9, 2022 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.)   A Taiwan crisis would lead to an emergency...

PRESS CONFERENCE “A Bad Bet: Osaka's Opposition to a Casino Resort” Tadakazu Konishi, Former vice governor of Osaka prefecture Tomoaki Nomura, Former Sakai-city council member (LDP) Kaori Takeda, Director of NPO AM-net 14:30-15:30 Thursday, September 8, 2022 (The speech and Q & A will be...

PRESS CONFERENCE “Wrestling Championship in Aid of Ukraine; Challenge for Peace” The Great Sasuke & Masato Tanaka, Professional wrestlers Mitsuko Ishii, Member of the House of Councilors Hideo Arai, Championship Promoter Ksenia Kolesnikova, Ukrainian evacuee 14:00-15:00 Wednesday, September 7, 2022 (The speech and Q &...

PRESS CONFERENCE Tetiana Yatsenko, Senior researcher, Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of NAS of Ukraine Olena Nesterenko, MD, Head of the Department of Clinical Transfusiology of Blood Service Center, National Children’s Specialized Hospital “Ohmatdyt”, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Kyiv Oleksandra Riabets, medical student, Bogomolets National...

PRESS CONFERENCE “The Kishida Administration's Foreign Policy Faces Rising Global Tensions” Shikata Noriyuki, Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs 11:00-12:00 Friday, August 19, 2022 (The speech will be in English)   Chinese ballistic missiles thought to have splashed down in what Japan sees as its exclusive...

URGENT PRESS CONFERENCE Tomihiro Tanaka, The President of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification Tatsuya Yamada, Head of Legal Division, General Affairs Department of Family Federation for World Peace and Unification   15:00-16:00 Wednesday, August 10, 2022 Language: The speech and Q & A...

PRESS CONFERENCE 11:00-12:00 Monday, August 8, 2022 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation) Legal Battles Continue over TEPCO and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Cause Yuichi Kaido, Co-chair of the National Association of Lawyers for a Nuclear Power Free Japan...

PRESS CONFERENCE “Time for ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine War” Haruki Wada, Chair, Group of Concerned Japanese Historians & Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo Atsushi Okamoto, Former President of Iwanami Shoten Publishers Kumiko Haba, President, International Studies Association Asia Pacific  Kenji Isezaki, Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign...

PRESS CONFERENCE The Jingu Gaien redevelopment controversy Citizens Ask Governor Koike to Go Back to the Drawing Board   Rochelle Kopp, Organizer of the online petition: ‘Protect Jingu Gaien's trees! Rethink the development plan!’  Naoko Nishikawa, Organizer of Jingu Gaien wo Mamoru Yushi Net & Editor-in-Chief,...