Press Events

Friday, November 02, 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 William Horsley, International Director, Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield, UK; author, OSCE Safety of Journalists Guidebook (2018) (The speech and Q & A will be in English) "Open Season on Journalists – Why Killings, Attacks and Jailing...

Thursday, November 01, 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Bill Emmott, Columnist, Author The Fate of the West, The Sun Also Sets Yoshihiro Kando, News Editor, BuzzFeed Japan Philippe Ries, Contributing Writer, Mediapart, French Online News Site Yasuomi Sawa, Senior Writer, Kyodo News, Contributor on Japan to Reuters Institute Digital...

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Maung Zarni, Leader of the Free Rohingya Coalition / Adviser to the European Center for the Study of Extremism in Cambridge, UK Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English "Why is Japan Silent on Rohingya?" During her...

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Andre Calantzopoulos CEO, Philip Morris International Inc. Language: Speech and Q&A will be in English "Transitioning to a Smoke-Free Society" Tighter regulations across the world and a shrinking smoking population are closing in on tobacco companies worldwide. To stay in business,...

Thursday, October 18, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Yuqing Xing, Professor of Economics, GRIPS "US-China Trade War – the Real Story!" What is shaping up to be a disastrous conflict can still be averted if only China grasps the fact that the battle front is narrower than it appears...

Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 URGENT PRESS CONFERENCE Hiroyasu Ito Chairperson of the Toyosu Market Association 15:00-16:00 Tuesday, October 16, 2018 (The speech and Q & A will be in English) "Farewell Tsukiji; Hello Toyosu Fish Market" The legendary Tsukiji fish market is gone. The new...

Tuesday, October 09, 2018, 11:30 - 12:30 Yusaku Maezawa #dearMoon Host Curator / Entrepreneur and CEO of ZOZO "SpaceX BFR's First Private Moon Passenger" A half-century after astronauts first waked on the moon, Yusaku Maezawa, an internet entrepreneur from Chiba prefecture, has agreed to make the same journey...

Thursday, September 27, 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Hideki Moronuki, Senior Fisheries Negotiator, Fisheries Agency and Alternate Commissioner to The International Whaling Commission(IWC) Japan submitted several changes to the recent International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Florianopolis, Brazil, that could have paved the way for a resumption of commercial...

Friday, September 14, 2018, 12:00 - 13:30 PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON Axel Berkofsky, Professor, University of Pavia Paul Midford, Professor, Norwegian University for Science and Technology Marie Söderberg, Director, European Institute of Japanese Studies "Can Japan and Europe Provide Alternative Leadership in a Changing World Order?" Language: The speech and...

Thursday, September 13, 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 YOSHIKI, Composer, Songwriter, Pianist, Rock Drummer and Leader of X Japan Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English with Japanese Interpretation "X Japan's Yoshiki - Rock Icon and Global Star" Growing up, X Japan drummer Yoshiki no...