Press Events

Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 14:00 - 15:30 Syoichi Ibusuki, Lawyer Eng Pisey, Cambodian Technical Intern Ko Seigo, Chinese Technical Intern "Problems in Japan's Technical Intern Program" Speech and Q&A will be in Japanese, Chinese with English interpretation. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to lure up to 340,000...

Monday, November 26, 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Nobuo Gohara, Lawyer "The Power of Public Prosecutors Over Plea Bargains" Speech and Q&A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation Nobuo Gohara, a lawyer and former prosecutor, is an expert on the plea bargaining system, which was introduced in June...

Wednesday, November 21, 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Hiroki Sakakibara In-House Lawyer, Legal Department, Olympus Corporation 13:00-14:00 Wednesday, November 21, 2018 (The speech will be in English, Q&A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation) "Whistleblower Case: Olympus vs Its In-House Lawyer" Hiroki Sakakibara, an in-house lawyer at Olympus,...

Tuesday, November 20, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Dolkun Isa, President of World Uyghur Congress (The speech and Q & A will be in English) The world's attention has turned in recent months to China's treatment of the Uyghur people in the western province of Xinjiang, where a U.S....

Friday, November 16, 2018, 12:30 - 13:30 Yoshiko Sakurai, Journalist, President of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation "The Legal Fight over the Reporting of Comfort Women" On November 9th, Sapporo District Court announced a...

Friday, November 16, 2018, 08:00 - 09:15 Asa-kai - FCCJ Breakfast Meeting Charles Dallara, Chairman of the Americas, Partners Group The speech and Q & A will be in English "Market Instability, Trade Wars and the Need for Longer-Term Perspectives" Financial markets are in turmoil, and that is...

Thursday, November 15, 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Takashi Uemura, Former Asahi Shimbun Reporter, Visiting Professor, the Catholic University of Korea and Publisher of "Shukan Kinyobi (Weekly Friday) " The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation "The Legal Fight over the Reporting...

Friday, November 09, 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 PRESS CONFERENCE Jumpei Yasuda, Journalist (The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation) Former captive Jumpei Yasuda will hold a press conference at The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. The Japanese freelance journalist, 44, was held...

Friday, November 09, 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 "Okinawa's New Governor" Denny Tamaki, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture The speech and Q&A will be in Japanese with English Interpretation Denny Tamaki is the latest face in the standoff between the central government and Okinawa, where the majority of Japan's U.S....

Friday, November 02, 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 William Horsley, International Director, Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield, UK; author, OSCE Safety of Journalists Guidebook (2018) (The speech and Q & A will be in English) "Open Season on Journalists – Why Killings, Attacks and Jailing...