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Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00 The future of Bitcoin in Japan Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English Bitcoin - the cryptocurrency devised by mysterious inventor Satoshi Nakamoto - is one of the most exciting financial news stories of recent years. Its...

Friday, April 28, 2017, 10:30 - 11:30 “Nuclear Disaster Scenarios: Spent Fuel Pool Accidents and North Korea”  Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English The atomic power plant disasters at Three Mile Island in the U.S. in 1979 and Chernobyl in the...

Thursday, April 27, 2017, 15:30 - 16:30 "Is Tokyo keeping its promise of a sustainable Olympics?" Language: The speech and Q&A will be in English Seven Japanese and overseas activist groups last week called for an independent investigation into the source of wood chosen for the construction of...

Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 12:00 - 14:00 "The Toshiba crisis and Japanese corporate culture" Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English and Japanese with English interpretation To say that Toshiba has had a rough year would be something of an understatement. Indeed, the hits...

Thursday, April 20, 2017, 12:00 - 13:30 "East Asian Security: The US and Japan -- finally getting serious?" Langugage: The speech and Q & A will be in English Tensions on the Korean peninsula have escalated as North Korea threatens to conduct its sixth nuclear weapons test...

Monday, April 17, 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 US-China Nuclear Relations and the Risk of Nuclear War in Northeast Asia Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English Diplomats representing the vast majority of the world's governments are meeting in the United Nations to negotiate a...

Friday, April 14, 2017, 10:30 - 11:30 Towards the 2025 Japan World Expo in Osaka Language: The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation Is it the wave of the future for Japan or an economic boondoggle? The central government is reportedly moving...

Tuesday, April 11, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00 Trump’s Syria Strike Langague: The speech and Q& A will be in English Following the U.S. missile strike on Syria last week, Warif Halabi, the Charge D'Affairs at the Syrian embassy in Tokyo, will come to the FCCJ to speak about...

Friday, April 07, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00 Tobacco control and Japan Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English. Smoking is on retreat throughout much of the developed world. Yet while others seek to kick the habit, Japan continues to light up. That may...

Wednesday, April 05, 2017, 16:30 - 17:30 Striking First? Japan's Defensive and Offensive Options Language: Speech and Q&A will be Japnaese with English interpretaion. In a break with Japan's cautious defense stance since the end of World War II, a policy research group in the ruling Liberal Democratic...