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December 18, 2024

Video Report: Traditional Sake Making Added to Intangible Cultural Heritage List! Protecting Traditional Culture and Passing It On to the Next Generation（①Shuso Imada, General Manager, Japan Sake and Shochu Information Center ②Tatsuya Ishikawa, Head Brewer, Tsukinoi Sake Brewery/Chair, Japan Toji Guild Association/Vice-chair, Preservation Society of Japanese Koji-based Sake Making Craftmanship）

December 10, 2024

Video Report: Japanese Convenience Stores: 50 Years of Evolution and the Next 50 Years (Mr. Hiroaki Watanabe, President, Yaramaika Marketing)

December 3, 2024

Video Report: Loneliness and Isolation in Japanese Society and Measures to Respond (Professor Mitsunori Ishida, Contemporary Human Studies, School of Culture, Media and Society, Waseda University )

November 19, 2024

Video Report:Normalization of Wages, Commodity Prices, and Interest Rates: Current Status and Outlook（Dr. Tsutomu Watanabe, Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics）

October 25, 2024

Video Report: The House of Representatives Election—The Prospect of Political Reform (Dr. Izuru Makihara, Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo)

October 11, 2024

Video Report: Outlook for US Presidential Election and Future of Japan-US Relations (Dr. Satoru Mori, Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University)

October 1, 2024

Video Report: 70 Years of International Cooperation—The History and Future of JICA’s Cooperation (Dr. TANAKA Akihiko, President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency)

September 25, 2024

Video Report:Series on Demographic Change：Nagasaki Stadium City As a Key for Stimulating the Economy and Developing the City（Mr. Shiro Suzuki, Mayor of Nagasaki/Mr. Yutaka Orime, Executive Officer, Regional Creation Nagasaki ）

September 19, 2024

Video Report: 2024 UN Summit of the Future and the SDGs (Dr. Norichika Kanie, Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University)

July 30, 2024

Video Report: A Message for the Future as Atomic Bomb Survivors Grow Older (Mr. Seiichiro Mise)

July 16, 2024

Video Report: Initiatives for Nuclear Disarmament by Nagasaki （Mr. Shiro Suzuki, Nagasaki Mayor）

July 2, 2024

Video Report: Towards the 10th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM10) (Dr. Izumi Kobayashi, President, Japan Pacific Islands Association and Professor at Osaka Gakuin University)

June 20, 2024

Video Report: Towards a Tourism Nation—Increased Inbound Tourism, Tourism Issues, and Future Initiatives（Mr. Ichiro Takahashi, Commissioner, Japan Tourism Agency ）

June 14, 2024

Video Report: Uses of and Issues with Drones in Times of Disaster—As Seen in the Response to the Noto Peninsula Earthquake（Dr. Shoichiro Uchiyama, Chief Expert Researcher, Multi-hazard Risk Assessment Research Division, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience）

May 8, 2024

Video Report:Japan’s Defense and Security Strategy (Mr. ONODERA Itsunori, Chair of LDP Research Commission on Security and Former Minister of Defense)

April 4, 2024

Video Report: Prime Minister KISHIDA’s official visit to the United States of America (Briefer: Mr. ARIMA Yutaka, Assistant Minister (Ambassador), Director-General of North American Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MOFA)

March 19, 2024

Video Report: Solving Problems in the Construction Industry in an Era of Declining Birthrate and Aging Population with DX(Professor Kazuyoshi Tateyama, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University)

March 18, 2024

Video Report: Examining the Situation in North Korea (Professor Atsuhito Isozaki, Keio University )

March 12, 2024

Video Report：The Relationship Between Climate Change and Cherry Blossoms, Mr. Daisuke Sasano , Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)

March 6, 2024

Video Report：Two Years After the Beginning of Russia’s Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine, How Will Japan Support Ukraine?(Dr. Michito Tsuruoka, Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)

February 14, 2024

Video Report: Significance of the Successful Moon Landing by SLIM(Dr. Shinichiro Sakai, Project Manager, SLIM Project Team, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA))

February 8, 2024

Video Report: Outlook for the Japanese Economy in 2024 (Mr. Hideo Kumano, Chief Economist, Economic Research Department, Dai-ichi Life Research Institute)

January 25, 2024

Video Report: Japan-Taiwan Relations Considering the Results of Taiwan’s Presidential Election （Dr. Madoka Fukuda, Professor, Department of Global Politics, Faculty of Law, HOSEI University ）

January 12, 2024

Video Report: Outlook for Domestic Japanese Politics in 2024 (Dr. Yu UCHIYAMA, Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)