Press Events

PRESS CONFERENCE Going for A Second Gold at Next Month's Winter Olympics Ryoyu Kobayashi, Ski Jumper, Gold Medalist in Beijing, Medal Favorite in Milan 16:00-17:00 Monday, January 19, 2026 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. The Foreign Correspondents...

PRESS CONFERENCE Tokyo's Lost Urban Spaces Riken Yamamoto, Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate 13:00-14:00 Thursday, January 15, 2026 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. The Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan invites members of the press to a briefing...

PRESS CONFERENCE Japan's Standoff with China Over Taiwan Masayuki Masuda, National Institute for Defense Studies, Head of China Division John Chuan Tiong Lim, Research fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, Tokyo University 11:00-12:00 Thursday, January 8, 2026 Language: The speech will be in English...

PRESS CONFERENCE Opposing an Effort to Whitewash Japan's Wartime Past Teruhisa Minami, The Association of Nagasaki Citizens for an Atomic Bomb Exhibition to Tell the World 15:00-16:00 Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation....

PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON Japan's Nobel Prizes and the Need for Education Reform Ryoji Noyori, 2001 Nobel laureate in chemistry & Nagoya University Distinguished Professor 12:00-13:30 Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Language: The speech will be in English and Q & A will be in Japanese with English...

SCREENING & PRESS CONFERENCE  BLACK BOX DIARIES Shiori Ito, Journalist and Director/Producer  Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin, Producers 13:00-16:00 Monday, December 15, 2025 (Screening 13:00-14:45, Press conference 15:00-16:00.) Language: Film will be in English and Japanese with subtitles. Press conference will be in English with...

PRESS CONFERENCE Labor's Influence on the Takaichi Administration Tomoko Yoshino, President of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (JTUC-RENGO) 11:00-12:00 Friday, December 12, 2025 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan is pleased...

PRESS CONFERENCE Japan's Bear Problem: Time to Call in the Self-Defence Forces? Kenta Suzuki, Governor of Akita Prefecture 11:00-12:00 Thursday, December 11, 2025 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. In late October, Akita Prefecture made international headlines...

PRESS CONFERENCE Recent Rise of Social Media in Japan and its Impact on Politics Iwao Osaka, Professor, Komazawa University Faculty of Law Yasuomi Sawa, Journalist & Professor, Waseda University 11:00-12:00, Wednesday, December 3, 2025 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English....

PRESS CONFERENCE Seiko Hashimoto, JOC President 13:00-14:00 Wednesday, November 26, 2025 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. As Japan celebrates its first woman prime minister, another noted female leader will speak to the Club about her ongoing...