Press Events

  Joshua Walker, Global Head of Strategic Initiatives and Japan, Office of the President, Eurasia Group (The speech and Q & A will be in English) "Japan's Global Role: A View from Washington" Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's recent summit with U.S. President Donald Trump was...

    Future of Malaysia-Japan relationship Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English with Japanese simultaneous interpretation. The role of lambasting governments in power has typically gone to disaffected students and other youth...

  "Tiananmen Square Crackdown: Exiled Pro-democracy Leaders Speak Up 30 Years On"  Wang Dan, Student leader of the Tiananmen democracy movement & Dialogue China Director Hu Ping, Former Chief Editor of the Beijing Spring magazine Language: The speech and Q & A will be in...

Penny Abeywardena, NYC International Affairs Commissioner Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English. "Cities Take Center Stage in Diplomacy" Penny Abeywardena, NYC International Affairs Commissioner will come to the Club to talk about her office's work as host city...

John Milton M. Lozande, Secretary General of National Federation of Sugar Workers Osamu Niikura, Vice President of Japan Lawyers International Solidarity Association and Professor Emeritus at Aoyama Gakuin University, Attorney at Law Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English.  ...

Takafumi Horie, Founder of Interstellar Technologies Inc. Takahiro Inagawa, CEO, Interstellar Technologies Inc. (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation) "Japanese Startup Seeks to Shake Up Satellite Market" Known in Japan as 'Horiemon' for his resemblance to a popular...

  "Unicorn Startup: Series C funding & Fin Tech Outlook" Mike Kayamori, Liquid Group Inc. CEO Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English.   Japan's cryptocurrency industry, reputed to be one of the most bustling and properly regulated...

    Kosuke Tsuneoka, Freelance Journalist Tsutomu Shimizu, Lawyer Yasuhiko Tajima, Legal Scholar and Former Professor of Sophia University Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation. Tsuneoka will bring a lawsuit against the foreign ministry and the...

    Yuka Iwatsuki, C20 Chair & President of Action against Child Exploitation Atsuko Miwa, C20 Co-Chair & Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center Masaki Inaba, C20 Sherpa & Japan Civil Society Network on SDGs –SDGs Japan Language: The speech and Q & A...

  Kaku Imamura, Attorney at Law (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation) "Legal Professionals Call for an End to Japan's 'Hostage Justice" A member of Junpo Law Office in Tokyo, Kaku Imamura has built a reputation for successfully...