Press Events

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...

Wednesday, November 21, 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Hiroki Sakakibara In-House Lawyer, Legal Department, Olympus Corporation 13:00-14:00 Wednesday, November 21, 2018 (The speech will be in English, Q&A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation) "Whistleblower Case: Olympus vs Its In-House Lawyer" Hiroki Sakakibara, an in-house lawyer at Olympus,...

Tuesday, November 20, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Dolkun Isa, President of World Uyghur Congress (The speech and Q & A will be in English) The world's attention has turned in recent months to China's treatment of the Uyghur people in the western province of Xinjiang, where a U.S....

Friday, November 16, 2018, 12:30 - 13:30 Yoshiko Sakurai, Journalist, President of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation "The Legal Fight over the Reporting of Comfort Women" On November 9th, Sapporo District Court announced a...

Friday, November 16, 2018, 08:00 - 09:15 Asa-kai - FCCJ Breakfast Meeting Charles Dallara, Chairman of the Americas, Partners Group The speech and Q & A will be in English "Market Instability, Trade Wars and the Need for Longer-Term Perspectives" Financial markets are in turmoil, and that is...

Thursday, November 15, 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Takashi Uemura, Former Asahi Shimbun Reporter, Visiting Professor, the Catholic University of Korea and Publisher of "Shukan Kinyobi (Weekly Friday) " The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation "The Legal Fight over the Reporting...

Friday, November 09, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 PRESS CONFERENCE Jumpei Yasuda, Journalist (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation) Former captive Jumpei Yasuda will hold a press conference at The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. The Japanese freelance journalist, 44, was held...

Friday, November 09, 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 "Okinawa's New Governor" Denny Tamaki, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture The speech and Q&A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation Denny Tamaki is the latest face in the standoff between the central government and Okinawa, where the majority of Japan's U.S....