Press Events

Thursday, April 26, 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 "Japonismes 2018" Nakamura Shido, Kabuki Actor, Nakamura Shichinosuke, Kabuki Actor, Hiroyasu Ando, President, the Japan Foundation & Jay Sakomoto, President & CEO, Shochiku Co., Ltd. Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English & Japanese with English...

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 "Abe government's support for the Trump Nuclear Posture Review" Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English Gregory Kulacki is a respected expert on the People's Republic of China who has lived and worked in China for the...

Monday, April 23, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Ri Pyong Hwi, Associate Professor of Korea University (Japan) Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. Ri Pyong Hwi, Associate Professor of Korea University (Japan) will come to the Club prior to the forthcoming Inter-Korean...

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 "Japan's plutonium stockpile and the approach to reprocessing" The speech and Q & A will be in English Rather than storing spent nuclear fuel, Japan's policy has been to reprocess it to separate out the plutonium for re-use. This policy, which...

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 12:00 - 14:00   Kazuo Shii, Executive Committee Chairperson, Japanese Communist Party Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. The Japanese Communist Party (JCP) has advocated a "democratic revolution" over the years by forging electoral alliances...

Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Yoshihiro Yasuda, Aum Asahara's lead counsel during the trial, Attorney, Member of JFBA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Committee The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation Japan's judiciary system has come under increasing scrutiny for its...

Friday, April 13, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Sam Rainsy, Former President, Cambodia National Rescue Party The speech and Q & A will be in English No one can talk about Cambodia's turbulent post-Vietnam War history without reference to Mr. Sam Rainsy. An economist and former president of the...

Thursday, April 05, 2018, 13:30 - 14:30   Catherine Jane Fisher, Award Winning Grassroots Human Rights Activist, Author Ryoichi Hattori, Former Member of House of Representatives   Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English and Japanese with English interpretation. The award winning grassroots human...

Thursday, March 29, 2018, 17:30 - 18:30   Toyoshi Fuketa, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.   The safety of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors was brought into question by the multiple meltdowns at the...

Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 14:30 - 15:30 Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate & Founder of Grameen Bank Yuka Kobayashi, CEO and President of Yunus Yoshimoto Social Action Ichiya Nakamura, Professor of Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University Nobutaka Tsubota, Author of "Biri Gal" Masataka Izumi, Yoshimoto...