The speaker of the First Wednesday March 2026 session is Ms. Yoko Fujita (Vice President & Executive Officer, Business Strategy Headquarters, Yokogawa Electric Corporation)
The speaker of the First Wednesday February 2026 session is Mr. Katsuhiko Kawazoe (Chief Executive Fellow, Former Executive Vice President, NTT Corporation)
The speaker of the First Wednesday January 2026 session is Mr. Shinsuke Sugiyama (Former Japanese Ambassador to the United States)
The speaker of the First Wednesday December 2025 session is Mr. Eiji Sakamoto (Senior Editorial Writer, Nikkei, Inc.)
The speaker of the First Wednesday November 2025 session is Mr. Yutaka Sasaki (Representative Director, President and CEO, NTT Data)
The speaker of the First Wednesday October 2025 session is Ms. Naoko Shoji (Marketing Senior Director, Marketing Strategy & Operations Division, NEC Corporation)
The speaker of the First Wednesday September 2025 session is Mr. Tomoyoshi Maruyama (CEO & Founder, XPERISUS Inc.)
The speaker of First Wednesday August 2025 session is Mr. Naofumi Iwai (Co-founder, Director, and CSO, Peatix Japan K.K.)
The speaker of First Wednesday July 2025 session is Akifumi Takaori M.D., Ph.D. (Director, Kyoto University Hospital) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday June 2025 session is Mr. Hideyuki Kurata (Representative Director, Executive Vice President, CTO, General Manager of the Technology General Division, AGC Inc.)
The speaker of First Wednesday May 2025 session is Mr. Christopher Eoyang (Senior Partner and head of Macro, Pamalican Asset Management)
The speaker of First Wednesday April 2025 session is Prof. Tatsuya Nishida (Professor, School of Political Science and Economics Department of Political Science, Tokai University)
The speaker of First Wednesday March 2025 session is Mr. Hiroshi Sakurai (Chairman, DASSAI, Inc.)
The speaker of the First Wednesday February 2025 session is Mr. Yasuhide Mizuno (Representative Director, Chairperson and CEO, Sony Honda Mobility Inc.)
The speaker of First Wednesday January 2025 session is Mr. Hideo Tamura (Senior Columnist, Sankei Shimbun)
The speaker of First Wednesday December 2024 session is Mr. Tadao Kikuchi (Chairman of the Board of Directors, Royal Holdings Inc.)
The speaker of First Wednesday November 2024 session is Mr. Nicholas Szechenyi (Vice President, Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Senior Fellow, Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The speaker of First Wednesday October 2024 session is Mr. Tsuneo Watanabe (Senior Fellow, Security Studies Program, Sasakawa Peace Foundation)
The speaker of First Wednesday September 2024 session is Mr. Umio Otsuka (Chief Priest of Yasukuni Shrine; Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Republic of Djibouti; Director General, Director, Defense Intelligence Headquarters of Ministry of Defense)
The speaker of First Wednesday August 2024 session is Ms. Akiko Kamei (Member of the House of Representatives, Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday July 2024 session is Mr. Tamotsu Hiiro (Representative Director, President and CEO, McDonald’s Holdings Company (Japan), Ltd.)
The speaker of First Wednesday June 2024 session is Mr. Mikio Sugeno (Managing Executive Officer, Chair of Editorial Board, Nikkei) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday May 2024 session is Mr. Yoshihisa Furukawa (Member of the House of Representatives; Former Minister of Justice) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday April 2024 session is Dr. Masashi Yanagisawa (President, S'UIMIN Co.; Director, International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday March 2024 session is Professor Tsai Jaw Shen (Professor, Tokyo University of Science; Team Leader of the Superconducting Quantum Simulation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday February 2024 session is Mr. Hideo Tamura (Senior Columnist, Sankei Shimbun)
The speaker of First Wednesday January 2024 session is Mr. Akio Fujii (Executive Chair of Editorial Board, Nikkei) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speakers of First Wednesday Special Trip December 2023 are Tetsuya Takada (Rear Admiral, 5th Air Group, Maritime Self-Defense Force); Masahito Yajima (Lieutenant General, Southwestern Air Defense Force); Koji Matsunaga (Major General, 15th Brigade Group)
The speaker of First Wednesday November 2023 session is Mr. Jean-Marc Gilson (President and Representative Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation)
The speaker of First Wednesday October 2023 session is Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa (Chairman, Health and Global Policy Institute) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday September 2023 session is Mr. Hiroki Sugita (Columnist, Kyodo News)
The speaker of First Wednesday August 2023 session is Mr. Akihiro Nikkaku (President and Representative Director, Toray Industries, Inc.)
The speaker of First Wednesday June 2023 session is Mr. Hisahiro Ichikawa (General Manager, Good Conditioning Promotion Office, Yahoo Japan Corporation, President, Work & Wellness Corporation) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday May 2023 session is Ms. Miki Oikawa (President and Representative Director, POLA Inc.) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday April 2023 session is Mr. Atsushi Tanaka (Representative Director, JTOWER Inc.)
The speaker of First Wednesday March 2023 session is Mr. Hiromi Yamaji (President and CEO, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. Next CEO of Japan Exchange Group, Inc.)
The speaker of First Wednesday February 2023 session is Ms. Kyoko Nishi (Deputy Director-General, Regional Development Promotion Office, Secretariat of the Council for the Realization of Vision for a Digital Garden City Nation, Government of Japan, Cabinet Secretariat) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday January 2023 session is Mr. Tetsuya Kusayanagi (Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, Kracie Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.) Jointly hosted by the Integrated Healthcare Initiative
The speaker of First Wednesday December 2022 session is Mr. Noriyuki Shikata (Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs)
The speaker of First Wednesday June 2022 session is Mr. Toyo Ito (President, Toyo Ito Architects & Associates)
The speaker of First Wednesday December 2021 session is Mr. Israel Strulov, Minister and Deputy Chief of the Embassy of Israel in Tokyo.
The speaker of First Wednesday July 2021 session is Mr. Tatsuo Tanaka, Senior Advisor and Former Chairman of Citigroup Japan Holdings G.K.
The speaker of First Wednesday February 2021 session is Dr. Kiyoshi Yamada, President, Tokai University.
The speaker of First Wednesday January 2022 session is Mr. Hsieh Chang-ting, Representative of Taipei Economic and Culture Representative Office in Japan
The speaker of First Wednesday October 2020 session is Mr. Hisaoki Kamei, Former Director General, National Land Agency, Japan.
The speaker of First Wednesday December 2020 session is Mr. Shigetoshi Ikeyama, The Councillor of Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Japan.
The speaker of First Wednesday the next October 2019 session is Mr. Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, The chairman of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation, The former representative manager of Japan Association of Corporate Executives.
The speaker of First Wednesday August 2019 session is Mr. Ken Saito, A member of the House of Representatives The former minister of Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Japan.
The speaker of First Wednesday July 2019 session is Mr. Zhang Renjiu, The Vice President of Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office.
The speaker of First Wednesday June 2019 session is Mr. Hakaru Tamura, The Councillor of Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.