Press Events

PRESS CONFERENCE "Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Shaking up Japan's Criminal Justice System" Shinobu Yamagishi, Former President & CEO, Pressance Corporation Kana Sasakura, Professor, Faculty of Law, Konan University/  Executive Director, Innocence Project Japan Saroop Ijaz, Senior Counsel, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch May 25, Thursday,...

PRESS CONFERENCE "Former Malaysia PM Mahathir Moots New Government Model" Mahathir bin Mohamad, Former Prime Minister of Malaysia May 24, Wednesday, 11:00-12:00 (Press Conference) (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981...

PRESS CONFERENCE "A Journey for Leveling Up Korea-Japan Relations" Park Cheol-Hee, Chancellor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy May 16, Tuesday, 15:00-16:00 (Press Conference) (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) Park Cheol-Hee is the man of the moment in long-fraught ties between Japan...

PRESS CONFERENCE "What Fossil Fuel Financing Means for Emerging Economies" Gerry Arances, Executive Director, Center for Energy, Ecosystems and Development, Philippines Makiko Arima, Oil Change International, Japan finance campaigner Sarmin Bristy, Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network, Bangladesh Dwi Sawung, Friends of the Earth Indonesia,...

PRESS CONFERENCE: Cancelled Ali Mohamed Ahmed Osman Mohamed, Charge d'affaires of the embassy of the republic of the Sudan in Tokyo   13:00-14:00 Monday, May 1, 2023 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) The Professional Activities Committee regrets to announce that...

PRESS CONFERENCE "Myanmar in Freefall" Thomas Andrews, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar April 28, Friday, 12:00-13:00 (Press Conference) (The speech and Q & A will be in English with simultaneous interpretation.) Despite once promising signs of democratic buds...

PRESS CONFERENCE Shoichi Ibusuki and Chie Komai, Attorneys at law supporting Ms. Wishma's family Heydar Safari Diman, Iranian refugee applicant 11:00-12:00 Thursday, April 27, 2023 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation) The Death that Shook Japan: Wishma Rathnayake...

PRESS CONFERENCE H.E. Ambassador Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative 11:00-12:00 Thursday, April 20, 2023 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English. *NOTE: Due to space restrictions, a limited reservation system will be in place. United States-Japan Trade Relations The United...

PRESS CONFERENCE "Climate change: the latest IPCC report is a source of anxiety, but also of hope" Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Vice-Chair 15:00-16:00 Wednesday April 19, 2023 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English. "There...

PRESS CONFERENCE Time to Pressure North Korea on Human Rights James Heenan, Representative of UN Human Rights Office in Seoul 11:00-12:00 Friday, April 14, 2023 (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) James Heenan, the new head of the UN's Human Rights...