PRESS EVENTS

Press Events

Press Conference: Is It Time to Abolish Japan's Death Penalty?

Tuesday, November 04, 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
PRESS CONFERENCE Yuichi Kaido, President, Center for Prisoners' Rights Yuji Ogawara, Chief Secretary, The Central Board on Abolition of the Death Penalty and Reform of the Relevant Penal System of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations Raphaël Chenuil-Hazan, Executive Director, Together Against the Death Penalty... ...
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President's Message

October 2025

Dear members,

September was a hot and hectic month at the club, with the announcement of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s intention to resign, followed by the start of the campaign to succeed him as president of the Liberal Democratic Party. We hosted a number of political speakers in the runup to the vote on October 4, as well as several panel discussions, including one on the future of journalism education in Japan.

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SPECIAL EVENTS

DINING

Dining

80th Anniversary Party

Thursday, November 27, 2025, 18:30 - 21:00
FCCJ’s 80th Anniversary Party 18:30 - 21:00 Thursday, November 27, 2025 The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan is proud to mark its 80th anniversary - a milestone in a legacy that began in the shadow of World War II. Since October 5, 1945, the Club... ...
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Exhibitions

Nov. 2025 Exhibition Part 1

Shuri Obayashi: Wind Chimes
An Exhibition of Ink Wash Paintings
Nov. 1 - Nov. 7, 2025

Winds have presence in Shuri Obayashi’s paintings, from which derives the exhibition title "Wind Chimes."  Featuring thirty of her works, this show marks Obayashi’s first solo exhibition in Tokyo.

Obayashi's pursuit of suibokuga began in Kyoto in 2015. At the prodding of her husband, then on sabbatical leave at Kyoto University, she signed up for a workshop led by the master painter Li Geng. She immediately took to the ink wash style where fluidity of water plays a vital role. "It paves way for the particles of sumi to seep deeply into the paper's fibers," she says. "The process infuses poetry of unpredictability and of life."

The traditional art form originated in China during the Tang dynasty with the literati of the era depicting visions of an ideal world. It arrived in Japan in the Kamakura era; Buddhist monks borrowed its techniques to produce zen-ga.

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