Press Events

PAC ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING: "Cancer, Infectious Diseases and Our Immune System" Tasuku Honjo Deputy Director-General and Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study Thursday, May 14, 2020, 13:00 - 14:00 (The speech and Q & A will be in English) Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo...

PAC ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING: Kazuto Suzuki Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy at Hokkaido University Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 13:00 - 14:00 (The speech and Q & A will be in English) Speech:The Japanese government has been criticised for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak...

Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 13:00 - 14:00 Jochen Legewie, Managing Director of Kekst CNC in Japan Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English.     As the coronavirus pandemic rages across the planet, governments and private companies are struggling to grasp its impact. Kekst...

Thursday, April 30, 2020, 15:30 - 16:30 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.) PAC ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING Tohru Kakuta, M.D., Vice President, Tokyo Medical Association   ​​​​​​​ Speech: Throughout the Covid-19 emergency, the Tokyo Medical Association (TMA) has been ahead of the...

Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 09:00 - 10:00 (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation.) PAC ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING Yoshitake Yokokura, President, Japan Medical Association ​​​​​​​ Speech: Amidst the ongoing and growing COVID-19 epidemic, Yoshitake Yokokura, president of the Japan Medical Association (JMA), will...

Thursday, April 23, 2020, 16:30 - 17:30 (The speech and Q & A will be in English) PAC ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING Kenji Shibuya, Professor and Director of the Institute of Population Health at King's College London ​​​​​​​ While Japan has recorded comparatively few cases and deaths during the...

Monday, April 20, 2020, 10:00 - 11:00 Kentaro Iwata, Professor of Infectious Diseases Therapeutics at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine (The speech and Q & A will be in English.) Though it initially avoided the exponential rise in Covid-19 infections seen in other countries, Japan is hardly...

Thursday, March 26, 2020, 14:00 - 15:00   "Japan's coronavirus epidemic countermeasures, are they working?" Nobuhiko Okabe, Director General, Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health   This event has been postponed. The new date and time will be announced shortly. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you...

Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 13:00 - 14:00 Tadahisa Kagimoto, Director of Public Interest Incorporated Association Mobile Hospital International Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Disaster Medical Coordinator, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (The speech and Q & A will be in English) "The Need for Hospital Ships in Times of Emergency" The Princess Diamond...

Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 12:00 - 14:00   FCCJ President's Forum Japan and the Global Financial Emergency Jesper Koll - Senior Advisor, Wisdom Tree Japan K.K. Wednesday 18 March 2020. 12:00-14:00 with Lunch The great central bank bail-out of business and of the financial system is being launched...