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What? - The Yale Club of Japan brings together Yale alumni residing and stopping by in Japan to meet one another and maintain their connection with the University.

How? - The Club organizes one or two events per month, such as guest speakers, seminars with visiting Yale professors, concerts with touring Yale a capella groups, the Yale Bar Review series, wine tastings, and screenings of The Game.

Through the Alumni Schools Committee, the Club also facilitates the alumni interviews for prospective students applying to Yale College from Japan.

A newsletter is sent out to Club members by e-mail at least once a month to announce upcoming events and programs.

When? - The Club, in its current form, was "reborn" in August 2002 with a guest speaker dinner at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan with Prof. Gustav Ranis, the Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies at the time.

Who? - The Club welcomes all members of the Yale community (alumni, students, and faculty of Yale University's 12 schools) currently residing in Japan. With more than 350 members on its mailing list, The Yale Club of Japan is the second largest overseas Yale Club (after London).

The current leadership of the Club is as follows:

 Yale Club of Japan Board of Directors

Co-Presidents Ben Seiver (Yale College '77) and  Engin Yenidunya (Yale College '02)
Vice President Sukeyasu "Steven" Yamamoto (Yale College '55, Yale Graduate School '59)
Treasurer Craig Will (Yale College '90)
Alumni Schools Committee, Director Robin Moriyama Narimatsu (Yale College '99)
Programs & Events Committee  
   Chair Ben Karp (Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences '95)
   Members Paul Contreras (Yale College '82)
  Eduardo Fukui (Yale School of Management '97)
  Ken Iida (Yale Graduate School '00)
  Minako Iida (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies '00)
  Rochelle Kopp (Yale College '86)
  Tom Silecchia (Yale College '93)
  Keith Truelove (Yale College '94)
 Advisory Council
   Presidents Emeritus  Jim Brooke (Yale College '77)
   Koichi Itoh (Yale College '63)
  Yuji Ito (Yale College '57, Yale Graduate School '62)
  Rick Samuelson (Yale College '77)
   Events Chair Emeritus Bob Howe (Yale College '79)
   Treasurer Emeritus Dan Thomas (Yale College '79)


 

 

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