1995 Dialogues with Japan society to Asia Pacific P.E.N Conference

1985 June Shusaku Endo is appointed the tenth president of Japan P.E.N. Club
1987 November "1935-1985 History of the Japan P.E.N. Club" is published
1988 August Based on the results of a survey of the club members, "The State Secrets Act: What we Think" is published
1989 March Eight-hour marathon talk "Is our Speech Protected?"
April Makoto Ooka is appointed the eleventh president of Japan P.E.N. Club
1991 April Debate Meeting about the Gulf War
1992 April First PEN Monthly Discussion Meeting
1993 April Hotsuki Ozaki is appointed the twelfth president of Japan P.E.N. Club
1994 December Kenzaburo Oe is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
1995 May The First Japan-China PEN exchange is held and the Japanese delegation visits Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai

  The Asia Pacific P.E.N. Conference was held in the Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo from November 26 to November 28, 1996.
  Thirty-one representatives from 14 P.E.N. centers and four writers' associations in the Asia Pacific region came to Japan for this event. Approximately 400 members of the Japan P.E.N. Club participated.

  Our 12th president Hotsuki Ozaki welcomed everyone at the opening ceremony as follows.
"Japan is one of the countries located on the edge of Asia and the Pacific Ocean. Taking this distinctive position into account, the Japan P.E.N. Club cannot have a serious role without carefully considering the various problems of the Asia and Pacific regions as problems that are closer to home."
  The main theme of the conference was "The Changing Literature of Asia."

International PEN Vice President G. Conrad giving an address　／　Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo in November 1996

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