Press Events

Thursday, December 20, 2018, 14:30 - 15:30 Shin Hae Bong, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University Koichiro Tokuoka, Attorney at Law, Tokyo Bar Association "Statement of Protest against the Massive Increase of the Defense Budget: An Urgent Call for Prioritized Public Expenditure on Education and Social Security" Speech will be...

Thursday, December 20, 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Akira Ueno, Lawyer, Nihonbashi Sakura Law Firm Noriko Odagiri, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Tokyo International University Tommaso Perina, an Italian Father Vincent Fichot, a French Father (The speech and Q & A will be in English and Japanese with interpretation) "Japan's...

Tuesday, December 18, 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Shintaro Ishihara, Author, Former Governor of Tokyo Masaru Sasaki, Former Vice President of Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corp. (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with interpretation) "Ex-Tokyo Governor Ishihara Calls for Enhanced Medical Responses to...

Wednesday, December 12, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Hitoshi Kuninaka, Vice President, JAXA and Director General, JAXA ISAS Yuichi Tsuda, Associate Professor, JAXA ISAS and Project Manager of Hayabusa2 Project Team "Update on Hayabusa2's Pioneering Space Mission" The speech and Q & A will be in English When our...

Friday, December 07, 2018, 12:00 - 13:30 Cédric Alviani, East-Asia bureau director of Reporters Without Borders Hiroyuki Ida, Deputy Editor, Shukan Kinyobi Yasuo Ohnuki, Former NHK Europe Bureau Chief, President of Free Press Association of Japan Jun Hori, CEO of 8bitNews, Journalist Pio d'Emilia, East Asia Correspondent, Sky...

Tuesday, December 04, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 PRESS CONFERENCE Kim Se eun, Plaintiffs' Attorney, Haemaru Law Firm Lim Jae sung, Plaintiffs' Attorney, Haemaru Law Firm The speech and Q & A will be in Korean with Japanese and English Interpretation "Korean Labourers Vs Nippon Steel: Lawyers seek compensation...

Monday, December 03, 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Kazuhisa Takeda, Former Director of Takeda Pharmaceutical, A Leading Member of TTBF and Founding Family Shigeru Mishima, Advisor of "Thinking about Takeda's Bright Future" (The speech and Q & A will be in English) On December 5th, the pharmaceutical company Takeda...

Thursday, November 29, 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Takaki Nakanishi, Analyst and CEO, Nakanishi Research Institute, Co., Ltd. "The Fallout from Carlos Ghosn's Arrest" Speech and Q&A will be in English. Apart from the personal crisis facing Carlos Ghosn and Greg Kelly, the two Nissan executives, who were arrested...

Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 14:00 - 15:30 Syoichi Ibusuki, Lawyer Eng Pisey, Cambodian Technical Intern Ko Seigo, Chinese Technical Intern "Problems in Japan's Technical Intern Program" Speech and Q&A will be in Japanese, Chinese with English interpretation. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to lure up to 340,000...

Monday, November 26, 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Nobuo Gohara, Lawyer "The Power of Public Prosecutors Over Plea Bargains" Speech and Q&A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation Nobuo Gohara, a lawyer and former prosecutor, is an expert on the plea bargaining system, which was introduced in June...