Press Events

PRESS CONFERENCE My Fight against False Doping Allegations Kazuto Ioka, Professional Boxer and WBO Super Flyweight Champion Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.  On New Year's Eve, WBO Super Flyweight Champion Kazuto Ioka knocked out top-ranked contender...

PRESS CONFERENCE Masako Akagi, Wife of Toshio Akagi & Teruyuki Ogoshi, Attorney at Law  10:00-11:00 Thursday, June 24, 2021 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. *Please note that any filming or photographs of Ms.Akagi's face is prohibited....

Why the Government's COVID Response went astray Masahiro Kami, Executive director, Medical Governance Research Institute 14:00-15:00 Wednesday, June 23, 2021 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. Japan's handling of the COVID-19 crisis has been a success by...

PRESS CONFERENCE Japan's Vaccine Challenges  Ken Ishii, Professor, Division of Vaccine Science, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo　 14:00-15:00 Friday, June 18, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in English Japan's slow progress in rolling out Covid-19 vaccines has been...

Former legislative secretary of Isshu Sugawara Nobuo Gohara, Lawyer 12:00-13:00 Friday, June 18, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation Japanese Vote-Buying Isshu Sugawara's secretary wants to put the record straight about LDP vote-buying. He says that charges...

Live 'Podcast' Event Trash Taste: Japan-based YouTubers  17:00-19:00 Thursday, June 17, 2021 Language will be in English. Trash Taste and the new wave of YouTubers in Japan What do you get when you put a Japanese-Australian computer engineer, a Thai-British electrical engineer and a Welsh-speaking mechanical...

H.E. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Verma,  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Japan 14:00-15:00 Tuesday, June 15, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in English. How does India see the Indo-Pacific and relations with Japan India, the second most populous country and...

PRESS CONFERENCE Against The Olympics Yukio Edano, Leader of Constitutional Democratic Party 11:00-12:00 Friday, June 11, 2021 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. With the Tokyo Olympics less than two months away, the government of Yoshihide Suga...

L.G.B.T.Q Rights for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 and Beyond Fumino Sugiyama, Co-chair of Tokyo Rainbow Pride Yuri Igarashi, Director, J-ALL Gon Matsunaka, Founder and President of Pride House Tokyo 14:00-15:00 Wednesday, June 9, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with...

Jaushieh Joseph Wu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan) 15:00-16:00 Thursday, June 3, 2021 The speech and Q & A will be in English/ Speaker will join the event online. The Alignment of the Taiwan-Japan Partnership in the Face of Modern Challenges Japan...