Press Events

Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 Taisuke Ono, Tokyo Gubernatorial Election Candidate Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.  Tokyo Gubernatorial Candidate   ​​​​​​​     The election for governor of Tokyo on July 5th might appear to...

Monday, June 15, 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 Kenji Utsunomiya, Tokyo Gubernatorial Candidate (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation) Tokyo Gubernatorial Candidate Kenji Utsunomiya travelled an unusual road to his candidacy for Tokyo governor. He was born and raised in a farming...

Tuesday, June 09, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00   ​​​​​​​ Ryo Kuroki, Author Nobuo Gohara, Lawyer, Former Prosecutor Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has long said she graduated from Cairo University in 1976, but claims have surfaced...

Thursday, June 04, 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Makoto Sakurai, Leader of Japan First Party Masakazu Kimura, Attorney at Law Kazuhiro Nakamura, Campaign Director and Secretary General Tokyo Gubernatorial Candidate ​​​​​​​ Makoto Sakurai is the leader of the Japan First Party and well known for his views on issues concerning...

Wednesday, June 03, 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 ​​​​​​​ Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English. Joshua Wong & Agnes Chow, Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists and Au Nok-hin, Former Legislative Councilor The Future of Hong Kong Last week the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of Chinagave its approval to a new national...

Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.  "Parody in Japan" by Kunitoshi Oka, Lawyer   ​​​​​​​ This month's spat between the FCCJ and Tokyo Olympic officials over the cover of the club's Number 1 Shimbun has...

Tuesday, May 26, 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 (The speech will be in English and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.) Takeshi Shimazu, MD., PhD., Chairperson, Board of Directors, Japanese Association for Acute Medicine "State of Japan's Emergency Medical Care System"   ​​​​​​​ The Covid-19...

Thursday, May 21, 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 Khaldon Azhari, President of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (The speech and Q & A will be in English with Japanese interpretation.) "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Emblem"     Khaldon Azhari, the FCCJ president, will hold a press conference to explain...

Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.) PAC ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING Tatsuhiko Kodama MD, Ph D, Cancer and Metabolism Project Leader, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo   ​​​​​​​ Tatsuhiko Kodama...

Monday, May 18, 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.) Naoto Kan, A member of the House of Representatives Former Prime Minister "Japan's Mishandling of the Coronavirus"   ​​​​​​​ Japan's prime minister from June 2010 to September 2011,...