Press Events

    Kumiko Otsuka, President, Otsuka Kagu, Ltd. Hai Bo Chen, President, High-Lines Co., Ltd. Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese and Chinese with English interpretation.   Four years after a highly publicized father-daughter feud over the control of...

  Clyde Prestowitz, Economic Strategy Institute (The speech and Q & A will be in English) "Talking Trade Wars" As the U.S. and China continue their clash over trade and Japan waits for its own set of talks with the U.S. to commence, 2019 is...

  Denny Tamaki, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture Jinshiro Motoyama, Representative of a Citizens' Group "Henoko Kenmin Tohyo no Kai" (The speech and Q&A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation) Okinawa's February 24th referendum on the construction of a controversial US airbase has raised the...

  "Recognition at last for Japan’s Ainu Community?" Yuji Shimizu, Chairperson, Ainu Kotan no Kai Satoshi Hatakeyama, Chairperson, the Monbetsu Ainu Association Hiroshi Maruyama, Chairperson, the Citizens' Alliance for the Examination of Ainu Policy & Emeritus Professor, Muroran Institute of Technology Morihiro Ichikawa, Lawyer...

  Nagwang Tobgay, Legal Officer of the Parents' Committee of "The Learn and Earn Program" Victims Sonam Tshering Dhendup, President of the Parents' Committee of "The Learn and Earn Program" Victims Yumiko Kan, Representative of Nature and Humans Japan (NHJ), NGO (The speech and Q...

    "2019: The Year of Osaka" Ichiro Matsui, Governor of Osaka Prefecture Hirofumi Yoshimura, Mayor of Osaka Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. For Osaka Prefecture and city, 2019 is one of the busiest...

  Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo (The speech will be in English, Q & A will be in Japanese with interpretation) "Designing Tokyo for 2020 – Initiatives for the Year to Come" Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike will address the FCCJ on a range of current...

  Miki Sakakibara, President of Japan In-House Lawyers Association (JILA) and Attorney, Panasonic Corporation Rika Beppu, Former President Women in Law Japan (WILJ) Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English In 2015, the Shibuya district of Tokyo became the first local...

  Robert Geller, Professor Emeritus of Seismology, the University of Tokyo (The speech and Q & A will be in English with interpretation) "The 'Imminent' Nankai Trough Mega Quake: Myth or Reality?" Since 1965 the Japanese government has unsuccessfully attempted to predict earthquakes. Geller reviews...

    Ichikawa Ebizo, Kabuki Actor (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation) "Modernizing the Kabuki Tradition" Few people are better qualified to explain the time-honored Japanese theater of Kabuki as Ichikawa Ebizo XI. The inheritor...