- From: Jim Brooke
To: Yale Club Members
Date: Aug. 11, 2003-
- Dear Yalies,
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- I hope you are surviving the August heat.
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- Convinced that cooler temperatures will come, we are planning a great lineup
of fall events.
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- First, Yoriko Kawaguchi, Foreign Minister of Japan and Yale alumnus, has
very kindly agreed to address us at a dinner Wed. October 1 at the Foreign
Correspondents Club of Japan. The lead organizer for this event is Mr.
Kotaro Tamura, LDP Senator. Tamura-san and Kawaguchi-san are the chairs
of a new committee devoted to promoting policy debate, the Yale Policy
Group. This will be the kickoff event for the Policy Group.
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- We have reserved a room for 85. Please email as soon as possible your acceptances
and number of attendees to the Yale Club email -- "yaleclubjapan@hotmail.com".
We have yet to set a price, but it will be in line with past dinners. No
shows will be charged double. Chigusa Hara is doing the hands on organizing,
and would very much appreciate volunteer assistance: Chigusa.Hara@morganstanley.com.
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- Given the nature of Kawaguchi-san's position, members should be prepared for
a last minute change of date, if she is sent off on an unexpected foreign policy
mission.
- Second, a historical perspective on Japan's foreign relations will be given
by Michael Auslin, Yale's Asst. Professor of History and East Asian Studies. We are organizing a Club dinner for later in October. The date has
yet been set, so stay tuned. His talk will make a nice counterpoint to
Kawaguchi-san's view from 2003. Prof. Auslin is the author of Negotiating with
Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy
(forthcoming), and is working on two books: The Bridge Builders: Cultural
Internationalism between Japan and the West, 1800-2000 and Japan's Worlds: An
International History. He has offered graduate seminars on early modern Japan
(16th-19th centuries).
- Looking ahead, Clifford Bernstein, president of the party-hearty Dartmouth
Club, had an organizational meeting on Aug. 3 for the spring 2004 University
Charity Ball. Yale members who want to get in on the ground floor of planning
the year's major inter-Ivy mixer for grownups, please contact Cliff directly
at: <Cliff@japanactive.com>
- Finally, if you are reading this, you are now aware that the Yale Club
of Japan is the first alumni club in Japan to set up a fully functioning,
interactive web site in blue ink!
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- THIS WILL BE THE MAIN MODE OF COMMUNICATION IN THE FUTURE, SO PLEASE CHECK
THIS SITE REGULARLY. E-MAILING 400 ADDRESSES AT A TIME HAS PROVEN TO BE
VERY TIME CONSUMING, SO WE ARE CUTTING BACK ON THE LENGTH OF EMAILS, LEAVING
MOST INFORMATION FOR THIS WEBSITE -- SO CHECK IT REGULARLY!
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- This site is the fruit of a lot of hard work by our very own
Machiko Inoue.
An electronic wave of applause and any constructive suggestions should
go to her at her new email address:
- <machiko.inoue@ge.com>
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- As you know, we are amorphous population. Those of you who attended the
Whiffenpoof Concert (a mere 200 at the FCCJ), know that our members range
from freshly minted graduates from the class of the 2003 to the widow of
our founder, class of 1950.
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- With that in mind, please take a moment to think of Yalies, new and old,
who may not be on our email list, who may not be aware of our new blue-tinted
website (http://www2.aya.yale.edu/clubs/japan/)
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- Please cut, paste and email this message of welcome to them.
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- Cheerio!
- Jim Brooke ('77)
- President of the Yale Club of Japan
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