For foreign journalists, FPCJ holds press briefings on important topics that help them understand the current Japan. This page shows past briefings.
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Video Report: Anime Tourism and Stimulating Local Economies—Trips to Locations from Anime Which Attract Fans from Around the World（Associate Professor Takeshi Okamoto, Department of Applied Sociology, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Human Studies, Kindai University）
Video Report: The Current State of the Japanese Economy and Creating a Virtuous Cycle of Commodity Price and Wage Increases (Dr. Tsutomu Watanabe, Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics)
Video Report: Japan’s Contributions to Achieving the SDGs and Climate Change Issues (Briefer: Amb. AKAHORI Takeshi, Assistant Minister for Global Issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)
Video Report: Preparing for Increasingly Serious Weather Disasters—Measures to Reduce Damage from Heavy Rain (Prof. Satoru Oishi, Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, Kobe University)
Video Report: 10 Years After Passing the Childhood Poverty Act—Changes to Inequality for Children in Japan and the Functions of Children’s Cafeterias as New Social Infrastructure (Mr. Makoto YUASA, Project Professor, University of Tokyo/President and CEO, Certified NPO Nationwide Children’s Cafeteria Support Center, Musubie)
Video Report: Marine Pollution from Plastic Waste—Japan’s Current Situation and Challenges (Prof. Hideshige Takada, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Video Report: 100 Years Since the Great Kanto Earthquake, Urban Disaster Prevention and Preparedness for an Earthquake Under Tokyo (Prof. KATO Takaaki, University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science)
Video Report: Japan and the EU: Recent Developments and Joint Leadership in Challenging Times (H.E. Mr. Jean-Eric PAQUET, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Japan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Mr. KODAMA Kazuo, Former Ambassador of Japan to the European Union from 2016-2020 and President of the FPCJ)
Video Report: Hiroshima’s Initiatives for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons After the G7 Hiroshima Summit and 78 Years Since the Atomic Bombing（Mr. Kazumi Matsui, Mayor of the City of Hiroshima）
