From: Jim Brooke
To: Yale Club Members
Date: Dec. 18, 2002

YALE CLUB OF JAPAN NEWS!

As a natural sequel to our sellout inter-Ivy Journalism event, the Yale Club of Japan will kick off the New Year with a Political evening featuring Japanese leaders of the future -- two thirty-something Yalies elected in October to the Diet.

The dinner/discussion at the FCCJ will feature two Yale Masters Degree holders: Jun Saito, aged 33, Democratic Party of Japan, Yamagata; and Kotaro Tamura, aged 39, Liberal Democratic Party, Tottori.

The event is Tuesday Jan. 7, but please make reservations now as the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan will be running at half-speed during the holidays. As usual: drinks at 6:30; dinner at 7:15; wrapup at 9:30.

Please RSVP by 24 Dec to: japanclub@aya.yale.edu
See you then!
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Date: Tues 7 Jan 2003.
Time: 6:30 pm cash bar
7:00 buffet (sitdown) dinner
7:45 Speech, Q & A @ 8:30
9:00 ends
Cost: 3,000 Yen
Place: FCC (Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan) 20th Floor
Directions/Map: http://www.fccj.or.jp/contents/map.htm
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Jim Brooke
'77 President
Other news:

PARTY!
About 20 Ivy Clubs in Tokyo are joining forces for a festive University
Charity Ball, probably in May or June. Colette Randall, a graduate of
Amherst College, is spearheading what will be a massive volunteer event.
She welcomes help! Please contact her at: colette_randall@yahoo.com.

MUSIC!
Several Yalies attended the separate, but equally lovely concerts put on this fall in Tokyo by two Yale School of Music grads Yoko Matsuda violin and Kei Hirayama flute. Now, Yoko and Kei are thinking of joining musical forces for a dinner/classical recital evening this spring; if you have ideas, or would like to help, please contact Kei at keiflute@music.prserv.net or Yoko at STRADY2@aol.com


FUTURE WEBSITE YALE CLUB OF JAPAN
Ken Iida and Machiko Inoue, both class of 2000, are collaborating on a building a Yale Club of Japan website. If you have any suggestions or contributions, please contact them at: kensaku.iida@accenture.com or machiko.inoue@fleet.gecapital.com

YALE-HARVARD GAME TAPE AVAILABLE:
Thanks to Makiko Harunari for organizing the jolly littler gathering two Saturdays ago at Hobgoblin to watch Yale-Harvard game. If anyone wants to borrow the game tape, Jim Brooke will bring it to the Jan.
7 Political Dinner event.