From: Jim Brooke
To: Yale Club Members
Date: November 2002

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Saturday Dec. 7  Yale-Harvard game tape showing at Hobgoblin in Roppongi. For more information, email: Makiko Harunari: makiko.harunari@aya.yale.edu or  makeex@livedoor.com

Friday Dec. 13  Journalists on Japan  an Inter-Ivy dinner at the FCCJ; Bruce Dunning, CBS News, president of the Princeton Club; panel with Tokyo journalists: Rebecca MacKinnon of CNN (Harvard); Nathalie Pearson Associated Press (Princeton); and Yalies -- Michiyo Nakamoto (Financial Times) and Jim Brooke (New York Times)

EXTRA EXTRA
Yale Thirty-somethings Take Diet by Storm!
In Sunday's by elections, Yale Graduate student Jun Saito, aged 33,  was elected on the Democratic Party of Japan ticket in Yamagata; Yale Masters degree holder, Kotaro Tamura, aged 39, an Independent, was elected in Tottori.
Ken Iida and Chigusa Hara, who bring this to our attention, suggest a Yale Political Union style dinner friendly debate/discussion in January at the FCCJ on the themes of Japan today and tomorrow. If you want to give Ken and Chigusa a hand on organizing this unique event with Japan's new generation of leaders,  please email at: kensaku.iida@accenture.com or Chigusa.Hara@morganstanley.com.

Yale Univ. student Saito of DPJ wins Yamagata race
YAMAGATA, Japan, Oct. 27 Kyodo - Opposition Democratic Party of Japan
(DPJ) candidate and Yale University student Jun Saito won a House of
Representatives by-election in Yamagata Prefecture on Sunday, early election
results show.
Saito, 33, defeated Takayoshi Sagae, 57, an independent supported by the
ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the New Komeito party and the New
Conservative Party as well as Japanese Communist Party candidate Miyako
Suto, 67.
He will fill the seat for the Yamagata No. 4 constituency vacated by former
LDP Secretary General Koichi Kato, who left the party in March and resigned
from the Diet in April over tax evasion by his aide.
Saito, currently studying at Yale University's graduate school, was also
supported by the Liberal Party.
He apparently benefited from a slow start to Sagae's campaign.
LDP headquarters officially decided to support Sagae, a lawyer and former vice
president of the local DPJ chapter, on Oct. 8.
But the LDP's local chapter, essentially a support group for Kato, expects him
to run in future general elections and protested the party's backing of Sagae.
The LDP chapter was also upset because Sagae challenged Kato in the 1996
general election as a candidate for the defunct New Frontier Party, as well as in
the 2000 lower house election, in which he ran on the DPJ ticket.

IRAQ TEACHIN:
To: "Yale Alumni and Friends" <alumni@yale>
From: Association of Yale Alumni <alliance@aya.yale.edu>
Subject: "Conversations on Iraq", New On-line Seminar for Yale Alumni

Program Summary:
Global Forum: "Conversations on Iraq"
Date:  October 29 - November 1, 2002
Who:  Six Professors: 3 from Stanford, 2 from Yale, 1 from Oxford
Format:  video lectures and an opportunity for on-line discussion
Cost:  no charge!
Program Details/Sign-up: http://www.AllLearn.org/yale2

Dear Friend of Yale,

Please join me in participating in "Conversations on Iraq," a unique on-line seminar offered exclusively to our alumni and friends through AllLearn, the partner program between Yale, Stanford, and Oxford.

This four-day seminar, taught by 6 faculty from Yale, Stanford, and Oxford, will provide you with informed perspectives on Iraqi issues, and will enable you to critically assess arguments made by politicians and journalists and draw informed conclusions about US military action in Iraq. The Forum will examine questions such as:

- Does Saddam Hussein pose a grave and immediate threat to the United States and its Allies?

- Could the U.S. legally and diplomatically launch a preemptive strike against Iraq, particularly if the mission lacks the support of the United Nations?

- What would Iraq look like politically in the years following an invasion?

Our distinguished faculty members will address these and other important questions in short video lectures, and will respond to questions and comments in on-line discussions following their presentations.

The forum is offered free of charge, but you must register before the program begins.  For program details, faculty bios, and to sign-up, please visit: http://www.AllLearn.org/yale2

Sincerely,
Jeff Brenzel
Executive Director
Association of Yale Alumni


YALE WOMEN OF SONG IN TOKYO?
From: emmy.harris@yale.edu
To: yaleclubjapan@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:45:42 -0400

Hi!
My name is Emmy and I'm a freshman at Yale. I'm from Tokyo, and I'm
getting in touch with the yale alumni association in japan for two
reasons. First, my a capella group, Out of the Blue, would love to tour
Japan this coming summer or next winter and we were wondering if there
was any one we could contact to help us obtain a sponsor and help in
planning our trip. Second, I'm going to be back in Tokyo for three and
a half months this summer--basically from the end of school until
school starts again--and I'm looking for an internship! I'm fluent in
Japanese. Any help you could give me or Out of the Blue would be truly
appreciated. Thanks!
Sincerely,
Emmy Suzuki Harris.
Class of 2006

PLEASE RELAY THIS NEWSLETTER to at least one Yalie you know in Tokyo - this has proved to be our most best method for expanding and updating our e-mail list - now 350, the second largest overseas Yale club, (after London!)

Cheers
Jim Brooke