Press Events

PRESS CONFERENCE Midnight Swan Tsuyoshi Kusanagi "Midnight Swan" Leading Actor Eiji Uchida "Midnight Swan" Director 12:00-12:40, Friday, October 9, 2020  (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.) *The trailer of the film will be shown at the beginning of...

Press Conference: Making Women Shine in Japan's Male-dominated Politics Seiko Noda Executive Acting Secretary General, LDP 15:00 - 16:00, September 28, 2020 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.) When Yoshihide Suga became prime minister this month, he vowed...

Press Conference: Japan's New Opposition Force in the Post-Abe Era Yukio Edano Leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP) 13:00 - 14:00, September 23, 2020 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.) Yukio Edano returns to the FCCJ amidst...

Press Conference: Towards a Diverse, Inclusive LDP Tomomi Inada Member of the House of Representatives, LDP 11:00 - 12:00, Wednesday, September 23, 2020 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.)   Former Defense Minister Tomomi Inada is well known...

Press Conference: Post-Abe Japan Tsuneo Watanabe Senior Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation Michael Thomas Cucek Assistant Professor, Temple University Japan Campus (TUJ) Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) *Mr. Cucek is joining this event online....

Press Conference: "LDP Presidential Candidate" Shigeru Ishiba, Member of the House of Representatives, LDP Friday, September 11, 2020, 13:00 - 14:00 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.)   Yoshihide Suga, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's loyal enforcer since...

Press Conference: The Iconoclast Tobias Harris  Japanese politics analyst & Senior Vice President, Teneo 10:00 - 11:00, September 03, 2020 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) *Speaker is joining this event online. The timing of a new biography on Shinzo Abe...

Press Conference: Shutting Down Political Discussion in Thailand Pavin Chachavalpongpun Associate Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Friday, August 28, 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) *Speaker will join the event online. If Pavin Chachavalpongpun...

Hiroshi Watanabe, President of the Institute for International Monetary Affairs Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English. *Mr. Watanabe will join the event online. Despite the devastating impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on the global economy there has (so far)...

Press Conference: Audrey Tang Digital Minister of Taiwan Monday, July 27, 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 (The speech and Q & A will be in English. )  *Ms. Tang will join the event online.   While Japan's 79-year-old minister for science and technology openly admits he...