Press Events

PRESS CONFERENCE Tomohiro Fukuzawa, CEO of the SkyDrive, Inc.  11:00-12:00 Wednesday, September 22, 2021 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. "The Global Race for Air-Taxis" Venture funds and big corporations pour billions of dollars into a high-flying ...

Press Conference Masato Kamikubo, Professor, College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University Chiyako Sato, Mainichi Shimbun and Tetsuo Suzuki, Journalist   14:30-16:00 Wednesday, September 15, 2021 (The speech and Q & A will be in English and Japanese with English interpretation) "The LDP Presidential Race: Who ...

PRESS CONFERENCE Fumio Kishida, Member of the House of Representatives, Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) 14:00-15:00 Monday, September 13, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation The Kishida Vision and the LDP Presidential Race  Prime Minister Yoshihide ...

PRESS CONFERENCE Yoshimasa Hayashi, Liberal Democratic Party 10:00-11:00 Thursday, September 9, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in English. Who Will be Japan’s Next Prime Minister?   Yoshimasa Hayashi has long been considered a future prime minister, but he has one weakness; ...

PRESS CONFERENCE "Justice for Victims of North Korea's "paradise on earth" campaign" Eiko Kawasaki, plaintiff, North Korea defector, survivor of the "paradise on earth" campaign/North Korea repatriation program Kenji Fukuda, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs of the North Korea repatriation program litigation 11:00-12:00 Tuesday, September ...

PRESS CONFERENCE: Osamu Okuda, President & CEO at Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 14:00-15:00 Friday, August 27, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation Does the world still need a drug to treat COVID-19?  Efforts to control the COVID-19 ...

PRESS CONFERENCE: Koichiro Tanaka, Professor, Keio University 11:00-12:00 Friday, August 27, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in English. One of the biggest regime-change surprises in recent history was the swift fall of Kabul and the Afghan government to the Taliban. The ...

PRESS CONFERENCE Kyoji Yanagisawa, New Diplomacy Initiative Board Member / Former Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Shigeru Handa, Defense Journalist & Sayo Saruta, New Diplomacy Initiative President 11:00-12:00 Wednesday, August 11, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation Is ...

PRESS CONFERENCE (via Zoom): Tomorrow Tadatoshi Akiba, Former Mayor of Hiroshima city 15:00-16:00 Friday, August 6, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in English * Speaker will join the event online. Hiroshima and the Olympics International Olympic President Thomas Bach paid a ...

PRESS CONFERENCE Koji Wada, Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health, International University of Health and Welfare 16:00-17:00 Thursday, August 5, 2021 The speech will be in English and QA will be in Japanese with English interpretation Japan's Current COVID-19 Outbreak: What's ...