Press Events

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...

PRESS CONFERENCE Raja Sapta Oktohari, Chairman of Indonesia National Olympic Committee 10:00-11:00 Wednesday, August 4, 2021 This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. Professional Activities Committee

PRESS CONFERENCE Yukio Fujiki, Chairman of Fujiki Corporation  Former Chairman of Yokohama Harbor Transportation Association  11:00-12:00 Tuesday, August 3, 2021 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. "I will not let Yokohama become a gambling den" Yukio Fujiki...

PRESS CONFERENCE "Caught between the Olympics and the Pandemic"  Yuji Kuroiwa, Governor of Kanagawa 17:00-17:45 Friday, July 30, 2021 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation / Speaker will join the event online.) As in much of Japan, yet...

PRESS CONFERENCE Mitsunobu Kawamura, Executive Producer of "TASTING THE PANCAKE FOR POISON" Taketo Uchiyama, Director of "TASTING THE PANCAKE FOR POISON" 11:00-12:00 Wednesday, July 28, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation *The trailer of the film will...

PRESS CONFERENCE A hunger strike with diplomatic implications Vincent Fichot, French father    Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English/ Speaker will join the event online. A French father who quit his job at Nomura to stage a hunger strike near...

PRESS CONFERENCE Statement against the Tokyo Olympics  Chizuko Ueno, Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo Mikio Haruna, Journalist & Yutaka Iimura, Former Ambassador of Japan to France 14:00-15:00 Monday, July 19, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in English and Japanese with...

PRESS CONFERENCE "The hidden cost to women of holding the Olympics during the Covid pandemic" Masami Aoki, Japan Medical Women's Association, Executive Director Yoshiko Maeda, CEO, International Women's Year Liaison Group Akiko Matsuo, Flower Demo, Organizer Language: The speech and Q & A will be...