To: Yale Club Members
Date: August 2002

AMERICA, YALE, AND THE WORLD: ONE YEAR AFTER 9/11 

Prof. Gustav Ranis, Professor of International Economics and Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

Dear Yale Alumni,

     The Yale Alumni Club of  Tokyo is coming alive!

Starting Tuesday, Aug. 20, we plan to hold the first of a series of provocative dinner speakers, about one every six weeks. The idea is to make it easy to enjoy the fellowship and intellectual food that comes with a Yale event. The timing will be week nights after work, and the locale will be downtown, at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan. The Club is on the 20th floor of the Yurakucho Denki building, three blocks from the Imperial Hotel.

        To kick off our rebirth, we are lucky  to have as our first speaker, Prof. Gustav Ranis, Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, a growing intellectual empire that recently landed former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo to run the Center for the Study of Globalization.

        Prof. Ranis, a native of Germany, is truly a man for all continents, having worked and researched over the last four decades in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Mexico, Colombia, Ghana, Germany and the Caribbean. A veteran of a year spent at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi and Keio universities, Prof. Ranis most recently edited "Japan and the U.S. in the Developing World." He served as chief economist forAID/Department of State during the Johnson administration.

        From his eagle perch overseeing Yale's international studies, Prof. Ranis will give us a global tour d'horizon, speaking on: America and the World: One Year after 9/11. He will also talk about his latest research, give an update on the internationalization of Yale, and field questions from us.

        We will meet 6:30 p.m. for a cash wine bar. Buffet dinner will start at 7:00 p.m., and we expect to wind up around 9:00 p.m. The dinner will be 2,500 yen.

        For planning purposes, please email us your response. We need an advance head count to help the chef!

        Hope to see you there!

        Jim Brooke 1977
        Michiyo Nakamoto 1979
        Tom Silecchia 1993
        Naomi Taniguchi Asakai GS 1989