Press Events

Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00 Making Tokyo 2020 Smoking Free Language: The speech and Q&A will be in Japanese with English interpretation Public policy on tobacco smoking has reemerged as a major point of political contention. The Health Ministry has recently been pushing more aggressively than...

Friday, January 27, 2017, 19:00 - 21:00 Doors Open; 18:30 / Party;  19:00 - 21:00   For 364 days of the year we live in an uneasy stand-off, the Hacks (journalists) hungry for news from the Flacks (public relations representatives), and the Flacks quite certain the Hacks will...

Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 15:30 - 16:30 Sex discrimation at the 2020 Olympic Golf Tournament venue Languge: The speech and Q&A will be in Japanese with English.     The organisers of Japan's Olympics have chosen the Kasumigaseki Country Club as the venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic...

Thursday, January 19, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00   Thomas Schmid, National Chair of Democrats Abroad Japan Alexander Gonzalez, Democrats Abroad Delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English.   Democrats Abroad Japan (DAJ) will hold a candlelight...

Thursday, January 19, 2017, 13:00 - 14:00   Putting a Stop to Karoshi: Death From Overwork Language: The speech and Q&A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.   Matsuri Takahashi was just 24 when she killed herself in December 2015. She had joined Dentsu, Japan's largest advertising...

Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 "Fukushima Voluntary Evacuees on Verge of Losing Homes" Language: Speech and Q&A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. In March, six years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, over 28,000 so-called "voluntary evacuees" are scheduled to lose their housing support and could be forced...

Monday, January 16, 2017, 12:00 - 14:00 "How Trump's Presidency can impact" Fumiaki Kubo, Barton Hepburn Professor of American Government and History, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo Toshihiro Nakayama, Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University Kumi Yokoe, Political Analyst Language: The speech and...