The first preparatory seminar for students and faculty members participating in the fifth Owada Chair was held from 17:00 to 18:30 on Tuesday, September 16, 2025.

In this seminar, Professor Ai Kihara-Hunt first posed questions on what justice is, what forms of justice exist apart from international criminal justice, what are critical evaluation of the International Criminal Court, and how legitimate their evaluations are. Following that, there was a discussion with Dr. Tomofumi Kitamura and students in English.