Yale Club of Japan - Past Events

Past Events

Please find below a sample of the Yale Club of Japan events held since August 2002 as well as one from back in 1961!..

Please click here for photos from some of these events.

Cello Recital by Erika Teraoka (Yale College '03) (May 2007)
Fiscal Year End Intercollegiate Happy Hour- Brown, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Northwestern, Stanford - "Yale Bar Review" IX (Mar. 2007)
"The Depletion of New England's Fisheries" - Harvard, Yale, Brown (Feb. 2007)
Dinner with Bernie Krisher, Longtime Journalist and Humanitarian Activist in Asia (Dec. 2006)
Winter 2006 University Mixer - Brown, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford, UCLA, Yale - "Yale Bar Review VIII" (Dec. 2006).)
"A Night of 4 C's: A Beautiful Ivy Tradition" - Dartmouth, Penn, Yale - "Yale Bar Review" VII (Nov. 2006)
Yale-Harvard Private Viewing of "Color Your Life: Six International Artists from China" (Nov. 2006)
Dinner with Robert Feldman (Yale College '75), Chief Economist of Morgan Stanley Japan (Oct. 2006)
Dinner with Rochelle Kopp (Yale College '86) - "Risk and Decision-Making in Japan Part II" (Oct. 2006)
Harvard-Princeton-Yale HaPpY Hour II - "Yale Bar Review" VII (July 2006)
The Inaugural Japan-Yale Senior Government Leadership Program (July 2006)
"The Blue Rocks" by Izumi Ashizawa (Yale School of Drama '02) (July 2006)
Bulldogs in Tokyo I (June - Aug. 2006)
The Inaugural Japan-Yale Senior Government Leadership Program (July 2006)
Flutist Kei Hirayama (Yale School of Music '00) in Concert (June 2006)
Whim 'n Rhythm 2006 & Jim Brooke's Sayonara (June 2006)
The Yale Alley Cats in Kobe and Tokyo (May 2006)
Happy Hour with Harvard, Northwestern, UCLA, Stanford Clubs - "Yale Bar Review" VI (Apr. 2006)
Dinner with Rochelle Kopp (Yale College '86) - "Risk and Decision-Making in Japan" (Apr. 2006)
Cello Recital by Erika Teraoka (Yale College '03) (Feb. 2006)
Dinner with Alex Kerr (Yale College), Author of Dogs and Demons (Feb. 2006)
Piano Recital by Mai Miyaki (Yale School of Music '98) (Jan. 2006)
Private Tour of Hiroshi Sugimoto's The End of Time with David Elliott (Dec. 2005)
Reception for Yale University President Richard C. Levin (Nov. 2005)
Harvard-Princeton-Yale HaPpY Hour - "Yale Bar Review" V (July 2005)
Whim 'n Rhythm 2005 Tokyo Concert (June 2005)
The Yale Whiffenpoofs 2005 Tokyo Concert (June 2005)
Dinner with Ambassador Ryozo Kato, Japan's Ambassador E.&P. to the United States (May 2005)
The Duke's Men of Yale in Japan (May 2005)
Dinner with Yale Educational Travel's "Springtime in Japan" Tour Participants (Apr. 2005)
Evening with Carl Kay: Saying Yes to Japan (Apr. 2005)
Yale-Dartmouth Joint Mixer - "The Yale Bar Review" IV (Mar. 2005)
Dinner with Prof. Salovey, Dean of Yale College, and Shades (Mar. 2005)
Shades Concert and Dinner at Fujimamas (Mar. 2005)
Dinner with Yoriko Kawaguchi, Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs Advisor and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Mar. 2005)
Yale-Penn Joint Mixer - "The Yale Bar Review" III at SuperDeluxe (Feb. 2005)
The Game 2004 at Legends Sports Bar - "The Yale Bar Review" II (Dec. 2004)
Dinner with Prof. Kuniko Inoguchi, Japan's expert on WMD Disarmament (Nov. 2004)
The Inaugural "Yale Bar Review" at Hobgoblin Roppongi (Oct. 2004)
Dinner with Prof. Ian Shapiro, Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (Oct. 2004)
Dinner with Gillian Tett, Author of Saving the Sun (Mar. 2004)
Wine Tasting and Fusion Cuisine at Fujimamas (Sep. 2003)
The Yale Whiffenpoofs - Whim 'n' Rhythm '03 Joint Concert (Jun. 2003)
"Yalies in the Diet" - Dinner at the FCCJ (Jan. 2003)
"Journalists on Japan" - An Inter-Ivy Dinner at the FCCJ (Dec. 2002)
Viewing of The Game 2002 at Hobgoblin Roppongi (Dec. 2002)
Dinner with Prof. Gus Ranis, Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (Aug. 2002)
Dinner with Philip W. Pillsbury, Chairman of the Yale University Alumni Board and Chairman of the Pillsbury Co. (May 1961)

Fiscal Year End Intercollegiate Happy Hour - Hosted by the Clubs of Brown, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, Yale - Mar. 2007

Dinner with Dr. Masayuki Komatsu (Yale SOM '84), Director of JAMARC, Fisheries Research Agency - Feb. 2007

The Harvard Club of Japan has kindly invited Yale Club members to join them for a dinner with Dr. Masayuki Komatsu (Yale SOM '84), Director of JAMARC, Fisheries Research Agency. while enjoying New England clam chowder, cod, crab cakes, Boston baked beans and apple pie. Dr. Komatsu is a leading authority on fisheries worldwide and will discuss the seafood cultures of Japan and New England as well as growing concerns that humans are depleting the world's fish populations beyond the point of sustainability.

Yale Club's President Emeritus Jim Brooke had profiled Dr. Komatsu in October 2002 for the New York Times , as an "environmentalist who loves to eat whales." "Masayuki Komatsu, career Japanese bureaucrat, is aggressively seeking to restore country's whaling industry to what it was before commercial whaling was banned 20 years ago; defends whaling on cultural, historical and often economic grounds, displaying mix of old-fashioned nationalism, selective culinary history and transparent political ambition"

For this event the Tokyo American Club has prepared a seafood-focused New England theme buffet menu which includes New England clam chowder!

Date	Wednesday 7 February, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Place	Tokyo American Club, 2-1-2 Azabudai, Minato-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	JPY7,500 plus cash bar.

Dinner with Bernie Krisher, Longtime Journalist and Humanitarian Activist in Asia

The Harvard Club of Japan has kindly invited Yale Club members to join them for a dinner with journalist and humanitarian Bernard Krisher, who will be speaking on "How Forty Years of Living and Reporting from Japan Have Changed Me".

Bernard Krisher was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1931 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1941. He studied at Queens College, Columbia and Harvard. He came to Japan in1962 and joined Newsweek as a corespondent, later became bureau chief until 1980 when he moved to open the Fortune bureau as Tokyo correspondent and also joined Shinchosha Publishing Co. as chief editorial advisor, helping to start up Focus magazine. He also set up the Japanese edition of WIRED for Dohosha. He is the Far East representative of the MIT Media Laboratory and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of five books: Interview, Harvard Diary, The Plus & Minuses of Being Japanese, We Who Lived in Japan and Charisma and Leadership with King Norodom Sihanouk. Currently he is engaged in co-authoring a series of books by eminent scholars and world leaders who have made a difference.

Fourteen years ago he established two voluntary organizations, American Assistance to Cambodia and Japan Relief for Cambodia which support various charitable projects in Cambodia. Bernard Krisher is also the publisher of The Cambodia Daily and founder and chairman of the charity Sihanouk Hospital--Center of Hope in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, run by HOPE worldwide. In 2001 he won the Gleitsman Foundation International Activitist of the Year Award. In 2003 he received the Iue Memorial Asian Pacific Cultural Prize and this year TIME magazine selected him to be one of their 20 "Asian Heroes" of 2005. His major current project is coordinating the construction of 295 computer-equipped rural schools in Cambodia from private donations matched by World Bank and Asian Development Bank funds.

Please click here for an article from TIME about Mr. Krisher and here to download a digitalized version of a CNN video story about Mr. Krisher's Cambodia project. A recent article in Japanese about Mr.Krisher can be found here .

Date	Tuesday 12 December, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Place	Tokyo American Club, 2-1-2 Azabudai, Minato-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	JPY7,000.

Winter 2006 University Mixer - Hosted by the Clubs of Brown, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford, UCLA, Yale - Dec. 2006

"A Night of 4 C's: A Beautiful Ivy Tradition" - Dartmouth, Penn, Yale

"Cigars - Cognac - Coffee - Chocolate"... Or, if you prefer, "Coffee - Chocolate - Cigars - Cognac"... any way you cut it, it is a perfect set of mild vices that underpins the perfect way to get together with a perfect set of people.

Whether you fancy a Montecristo or a Macanudo, a Hennessy or a Hardy, a Verona or a Venetian, there is a good harmless buzz here for you. Join Dartmouth, Penn, and Yale alumni in what should be a fun fall evening out.

Dinner is available by reservation. The bar area will feature only The 4C's (5 really, they'll serve you a "Chardonnay" if you really want one)

Date	Thursday 30 November, 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Place	Cepages, 2/F Arisugawa West, 5-14-15 Minami Azabu. Tel: 03-3280-3636. Please click here for a map.
Cost	No cover charge. Pay as you go.
Signup	Please e-mail Engin Yenidunya at engin.yenidunya@aya.yale.edu if you have any questions.

Yale-Harvard Private Viewing of "Color Your Life: Six International Artists from China" - Nov. 2006

Norman H. Tolman (Yale M.A. '64) has invited the Yale and Harvard Clubs to a private viewing of the "Color Your Life: Six International Artists from Tokyo" at Shinsei Bank on Tuesday, November 21.

Norman will give a guided tour of the exhibition at 7.30pm

The exhibition is organized by The Tolman Collection Tokyo and can be seen November 20th through December 7th.

Please click on the image to see the full size version.

“It doesn’t matter what nationality an artist is, only whether he can make good paintings.”

"In the early 1950s Toko Shinoda journeyed to New York, became affiliated with Betty Parson’s Gallery, met the Abstract Impressionists, and with her Japanese roots already firmly established, developed into one of them. Shinoda has gone on to enjoy wide recognition. In the same fashion, Clifton Karhu bringing his Minnesota background and education along with him, started in Gifu and ended up in Kyoto where he has become a chronicler of that ancient city, making work paralleling that of Saito Kiyoshi (1907-1997), Japan’s pioneer woodblock printmaker. Today Mr. Karhu is fully recognized as one of Japan’s best-known print artists. Having been immersed the works of both Karhu and Shinoda for more than 30 years I wonder if Shinoda really looks international to everyone else, and whether Karhu’s prints seem to be more Japanese than those of many Japanese artists.

This question struck me in April when, as a participant in the Beijing International Art Fair, showing Japanese prints to a Chinese audience, I was attracted to the work of a young Korean artist, Kwon Doohyoun. I found his “brushless paintings” so compelling that I committed to exhibiting them at this year’s Singapore Art Festival in September. It seemed to me that Mr. Kwon might actually have made those works with Singapore in mind employing colors that are en vogue in that country. I felt that the mood and feeling that he conveyed in those pieces would fit Singaporean taste. These are my opinions, not the artist’s.

After a certain amount of time contemplating the international appeal of these four artists’ pieces I was left with a slight feeling of revelation. Initially, I didn’t respond to these pieces because the artists were Japanese, American, or Korean. I was attracted to them because each of them had brought forth art that was fresh, innovative, unique, well made, distinctive, and beautiful! Of course when I actually came to make a purchase I learned where they were from, but by that time my decision had long-since been made; their nationality hadn’t influenced my choice, it simply became part of their identification.

Taking this one step further, I decided to compose a collection of paintings by Chinese artists whose work might not be immediately recognized as “Chinese.” What we know as Chinese art has captured the market and stolen the headlines all over the world including New York where record-breaking auctions have set world records. Even so, I thought it apt to make use of the offer of The Shinsei Bank in Tokyo under their slogan of “Color Your Life,” to use their space and support for an exhibition showcasing artists whose work was outstanding first and Chinese second.

Therefore from November 20 until December 7, 2006 Shinsei Bank’s expansive space will allow me to show the following six artists: Tan Ping, Shen Fan, Qin Yifeng Wang Lifeng, Jiang Weitao, and Zhang Xiaogang . I am not attempting to identify any movement, link them as a group, or indicate that they are a school; they are not. These artists just happen to be going their own way, painting what occurs to them.

Tan Ping (b. 1960) lives and works in Beijing where he also serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Central Academy of Arts. The Chengde born artist is a painter, but in China where everyone seems able to put brush to paper, he has further distinguished himself with his work in woodblock prints, and so I have chosen him to represent prints. Working at a level that will amaze art lovers in Japan, the land of the print will be doubly satisfying because his abstract compositions give little evidence of his nationality. His abstract compositions, executed in muted, elegant colors evince a truly universal approach. This work appeals to all because of its technical excellence and offers the viewer a state of order and calm not easily found. Perhaps that can be attributed in part to his stint as a student in Germany.

My revelation didn’t come without parameters. I don’t want any reader to think that I am denying the nationality of these artists. They are all Chinese and I am not trying to take away their cultural heritage. But knowing that the Chinese language, both spoken and written, serves as the Greek and Latin of Asia doesn’t by itself indicate that the work is Chinese. These ancient, enduring symbols appear in the Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages as well as Chinese from where they have been borrowed from time immemorial.

I have added this “defense” of my theory to be able to include the dreamy, historic feeling in the works of Wang Lifeng (b. 1962). MI. Wang was born in Inner Mongolia, a province of China, and he has no connection with anything Mongolian. Without knowing it, Mr. Wang has not been cooperative with my efforts by titling his works “The Great Song” in memory of that ancient dynasty noted for its cultural advancement and prosperity. Then in the composition of the pieces he employs a collage technique assembling textiles, and examples of those famous wondrous symbols mentioned above. At any rate I want viewers to try to understand that this piece could be by a Korean or maybe even a Japanese artist who had minored in Song history.

The two artists discussed above both work in Beijing, but China has two cultural capitals, and in Shanghai we find the same international trends. Shen Fan (b.1952) and Qin Yifeng (b. 1961) are native-born Shanghainese. Both are based there where they teach at Shanghai Huashan Fine Art School and The Fine Arts College of Shanghai University respectively. Shen Fan uses brilliant colors in his paintings which can be imagined to be a long forgotten written language; sometimes the ink is the same brilliant red color as the ink with which Chinese documents are officially sealed. Other than this there is no indication of China in his work. Qin Yifeng’s materials are simple; paper, glue, crayon, and pastels. Often he uses myriad shades of black and gray, but other pieces utilize brilliant blues, and appealing yellows. Again I wonder if I am the only one who thinks that their work looks more Asian than Chinese, and if even the artists themselves will go along with my folly.

Jiang Weitao (b. 1975) is the youngest of our group of six whose work is being shown. How to introduce the newest work of an imaginative, creative artist is always a challenge; one wishes to convey the idea without getting carried away with the description. Nevertheless to prepare the viewer for the brilliant results one could pose the impossible; perhaps we could think that the artist had soaked precious gems like emeralds, rubies, and sapphires in a solution that allowed the color to be distilled. The finished products, the dried paintings, gleam with a translucence that only jewels possess. For the sixth artist I decided to choose the man of the moment, Zhang Xiaogang (b.1958) whose works brought fabulous prices in the New York auctions this year nearly reaching the magic $1 million mark and setting the world afire with speculation of how and why. Since the price was set in an auction, it seems to me that “someone wanted it that much” should suffice. During the same period a Picasso fetched $94.5 million and no one had any trouble digesting those numbers.

Since the other five artists are new to my audience, I added Mr. Zhang’s work because I felt that the publicity in connection with Christie’s auction made him a topic of conversation and might provide work by an artist of who was more identifiable. But more important for me was that as his theme he has painted people’s faces. I suppose with this point I can get into the most trouble, but honestly dear readers, all Asians do not look the same to me. But I have to admit that I can never tell who is Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, or who is from any of the other Asian countries. When I look at Zhang Xiaogang’s work I seem to be able to find resemblance to many young Japanese &ends, a few Koreans, and even some people in Hawaii. For reasons of prudence I shall provide no photographs of these people but I am truly sincere in saying that these works could indicate people from many different countries.

For my Shinsei Bank show I decided to purchase the original paintings and the prints without consulting with the artists about what I was going to do with them. After the purchases were made I then revealed my intentions and have seen to it that the artists will be present at the exhibition opening in Tokyo. I hope that they will be pleased with my winsome approach to their wonderful work. And of course I hope the readers will be happy to find yet another way to “read” the art that is now with us. And of course I pray that no one will be offended because I find the work great fist, and Chinese second.

About the author: Norman H. Tolman (Yale M.A. '64) is a 51-year resident in Asia. His career spans the various levels of society: military, student, diplomat and art dealer. In his involvement with art he has been a collector, gallery owner, author of several books, and introducer of Japanese prints to the world with exhibits from Finland to Cairo, and from Shanghai to Chicago. From his own galleries in Tokyo, New York, Singapore and Shanghai he distributes Japanese prints to more than 5-dozen galleries and dealers throughout the world."

Note: The Tolman Collection will donate 10% of the sale price of any piece purchased by a Harvard/Yale alum to the purchaser’s alma mater.

Date	Tuesday 21 November.
Time	7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Drinks 7:30 p.m. - Guided tour by Norman H. Tolman
Place	Shinsei Bank, 20/F, 2-1-8 Uchisaiwaicho, Tokyo. Please click here for a map.
Cost	FREE.
Signup/ Questions	Please respond to Engin Yenidunya at engin.yenidunya@aya.yale.edu to confirm your attendance or if you have any questions.

Dinner with Robert Feldman (Yale College '75), Chief Economist of Morgan Stanley Japan - Oct. 2006

Media authority and Morgan Stanley Japan Chief Economist Robert Feldman, Yale College '75, brings to this event his most recent insights into Japanese business trends and their international context. The event will take place October 30th at 19:00 at the FCCJ and Robert will present for our benefit as-yet-unpublished material.

In addition to his duties as chief economist for Japan, Feldman is Co-Head of Japan Equity Research.

As part of Morgan Stanley's global economics team, Feldman is responsible for forecasting the Japanese economy and interest rates. He is a regular commentator on World Business Satellite, the nightly business program of TV Tokyo.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1998, Robert was the chief economist for Japan for Salomon Brothers from 1990-97. He worked for the International Monetary Fund from 1983-89, in the Asian, European, and Research Departments.

Robert has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he concentrated on international finance and development.

At Yale he took BAs in both Economics and in Japanese Studies, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude. Before he entered graduate school, he worked at both the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Chase Manhattan Bank.

Robert has published four books, Japanese Financial Markets: Deficits, Dilemmas, and Deregulation (MIT Press, 1986), Nihon no Suijaku ("The Weakening of Japan", Toyo Keizai 1996, in Japanese) and Nihon no Saiki ("Starting Over", Toyo Keizai 2001, in Japanese), and Kozo kaikaku no saki wo yomu ("Beyond Structural Reform", Toyo Keizai 2005, in Japanese). A fluent speaker of Japanese, he has also translated four books from Japanese to English, including Economic Growth in Prewar Japan (by Takafusa Nakamura, Yale U. Press).

Born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Robert first came to Japan in 1970, as an exchange student, spending a year in Nagoya. He subsequently spent study years at both the Nomura Research Institute (1973-74), and at the Bank of Japan (1981-82).

Date	Monday 30 October.
Time	6:15 p.m. - Drinks 7:00 p.m. - Buffet dinner 7:45 p.m. - Presentation 8:30 p.m. - Discussion 9:00 p.m. - End
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	JPY4,000 payable in cash at the door.

Dinner with Rochelle Kopp (Yale College '86) - "Risk and Decision-Making in Japan Part II" - Oct. 2006

Rochelle Kopp, Yale College '86 and a Tokyo-based cross-cultural consultant, will talk on how Japanese organizations operate and where conflicts often arise with Americans and other Westerners.

Rochelle will once again share her insights into how Japanese organizations operate. In her April 10th lecture , Rochelle explained how cultural attitudes toward risk and decision-making affect all aspects of how business and politics happen in Japan. She described the historical origins of these attitudes, and how they play an important role today. She contrasted Japanese with American attitudes, and showed how these differences lead to misunderstandings when Americans and Japanese work together .

Knowing about these differences is just the first step. Doing something about it is the second step. But what should we do? Please attend this lecture to find out! This should be interesting to anyone living in Japan, particularly those who manage or work in a multi-cultural environment . Rochelle is one of our more popular speakers and her last event sold out early. Rochelle's hourly billing rate is multiples of our walk-in price. Don't miss out!

Rochelle is an authority on Japanese culture and business. As a consultant specializing in cross-cultural communications, she has extensive experience working with Japanese organizations and their non-Japanese suppliers and partners . A veteran facilitator experienced in delivering training and consulting to both Japanese and non-Japanese, Rochelle has a particular specialty in facilitating cross-cultural teambuildings and other programs for executives.

Rochelle is the author of The Rice-Paper Ceiling: Breaking Through Japanese Corporate Culture and over a dozen books in Japanese. Rochelle also writes articles for various Japanese and American publications, including regular columns for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun . She is a frequent speaker, and has also taught courses in Organization Behavior and Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University. She holds a B.A. summa cum laude in History from Yale University and an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Date	Tuesday 10 October.
Time	6:15 p.m. - Drinks 7:00 p.m. - Buffet dinner 7:45 p.m. - Presentation 8:30 p.m. - Discussion 9:00 p.m. - End
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	JPY4,000 payable in cash at the door.

Harvard-Princeton-Yale HaPpY Hour - "Yale Bar Review" VII - July 2006

Following our previous successful joint Bar Review events with Penn, Dartmouth, NWU, Stanford, and UCLA, and almost a year after last summer's well-attended HaPpY Hour at Hills Cafe, please join us at The Baron as we are joined by the HARVARDClub and the PRINCETON Club again for the SEVENTH session in our Yale Bar Review series.

Last July's HaPpY Hour brought together around 75 HaPpY people at Hills Cafe - we're shooting for more people this year. PleaseSPREAD THE WORD to your Yale, Harvard, and Princeton friends.

THE BARON is a relatively new bar/ restaurant in Nishiazabu offering a good mix of drinks and food including hot and cold tapas, salads, main dishes, desserts.

They will be offering us JPY500 drink SPECIALS - Heineken bottles, house wine, and house cocktails.

This event is a great opportunity to catch up with fellow Yalies in a relaxed atmosphere as well as to meet new friends and make new connections with Harvard and Princeton alumni.

Please click here for PHOTOS from last July's HaPpY Hour as well as the other joint Yale-Harvard, Yale-Penn, and Yale-Dartmouth events.

Date

Thursday, 27 July, 7 - 11pm

Place

The Baron, Emerald Nishi Azabu Garden, 1/F, 1-8-21 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku (Tel: 03 6406 4551) Map here .

Questions
Please contact Engin Yenidunya (Yale College '02) with any questions regarding the HaPpY Hour.

The Blue Rocks by Izumi Ashizawa (Yale School of Drama '02) - July 2006

After graduating from Yale School of Drama in 2002, Izumi Ashizawa has been creating Neo-Noh plays, performing around the world. Her second play, The Blue Rocks, was performed in New York in 2004, and was invited to perform in Romania in2005, and Iran in 2006.

This play is selected to be a part of the Tokyo Summer Music Festival 2006, and will be performed on July 22nd and 23rd at Meguro Persimmon Hall.

She would like to invite as many Yale alumni residing in the Tokyo area. There will also be a workshop in addition to the performance on the 23rd, which may also be interesting for Yale Club members.

The Blue Rocks is a fusion of Japanese Noh theatre and Greek tragedy with original music (composed by Somos Papanas, '02) and masks. Based on Jason's legendary trip to Colchis, the heroic episode of the Blue Rocks is depicted from victim's (woman's) point of view, and suggests that Jason's tragic future derives from his past.

More detailed information and reviews are available here.

Date	Saturday 22 July 7.30pm / Sunday 23 July 5.30pm
Place	Meguro Persimmon Hall, 1-1-1 Yakumo (Within the Citizens Campus), Meguro-ku, Tokyo. Tel: 03-5701-2904. Please click here for a map.
Tickets	Contact Ashizawa-san at 3717-3214 / izumedusa@yahoo.com

Bulldogs in Tokyo - June-Aug. 2006

This summer, there are five Yale undergraduates working as interns in Tokyo as pioneers for the Bulldogs in Tokyo program.

Several alums are inviting them to visit their offices and have lunch. Please feel free to contact them directly - their e-mail addresses can be looked up here or obtained from Engin Yenidunya .

Their names and internships are as follows:

Christopher So Gibson and Alice Izumo - JIIA
Yuko Hara - Financial Times
Naoko Kozuki - Newsweek
Danielle Catambay - Yokogawa Electric

Date	3 June - 5 August
Questions	Please contact Lanch McCormick of Yale's Undergraduate Career Services with any questions regarding the Bulldogs in Tokyo program.

The Inaugural Japan-Yale Senior Government Leadership Program - July 2006

During the Yale presidential delegation's visit to Tokyo in November 2005, Prime Minister Koizumi asked President Richard C. Levin if Yale would organize an executive leadership training program for Japanese government officials.

In recent years, Yale has hosted ministerial-level training programs for government officials from China, United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, and other countries. Japanese government officials drawn from the Diet and various Japanese ministries will spend a week in New Haven and Washington, DC in July where they will receive high level briefings from Yale faculty and guest lecturers, as well as meet with their U.S. counterparts in the Congress and Cabinet departments.

Diet Member Madame Yoriko Kawaguchi '72 has been active in organizing the Japanese delegation that will travel to New Haven. Among the topics which will be covered during the program are issues of demographics (declining birthrate, immigration policy), role of women, issues of federalism, governance, urban and regional development, energy policy, U.S.-China-Japan relations, world trade policies, and U.S. politics. Ambassador Ryozo Kato '66 will host the delegation for a dinner at the Embassy of Japan during their time in Washington, DC.

Date	8-15 July
Place	New Haven, CT, and Washington, DC.

"Transforming Japan: Global Connections, Domestic Developments" - July 2006

As part of the Programs International Educational Resources at The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, Jeffrey Levick, director of external affairs for the Council on East Asian Studies will be co-leading a group of 15 U.S. middle and high school teachers on an educational field study tour of Japan, July 17-31. The tour (funded by the Freeman Foundation) is a component of an intensive one-week summer program at Yale that introduces K-12 teachers to contemporary topics in Japan. For a brief description of the institute click here.

The two-week tour will begin Tokyo and move westward from there, stopping in Nagoya, Koya-san, Osaka, Kyoto, Hikone, and Hiroshima . The tour will contain content-based lectures in each area in order to provide the participants with a rich, educational experience that can be incorporated into their lesson plans and classes.

There are a few gaps in the itinerary and the Council is seeking any Yale club members who might be willing to assist or contribute to the program in any of the following areas below:
*A guided tour, in English, of the some of the famous sights on Koya-san in Wakayama on July 23.
*A guided tour, in English, of Kyoto on July 25-26.

Date	17-31 July
Place	Tokyo, Nagoya, Koya-san, Osaka, Kyoto, Hikone, and Hiroshima.
Questions	Please contact Jeffrey Levick for more information and details.

Flutist Kei Hirayama (Yale School of Music '00) in Concert - June 2006

Kei Hirayama (Yale School of Music '00) on her flute will be joined by Kyoko Sasaki on the piano for a short concert at the Yokohama Museum of Art on June 17th 2006 from 2:00 to 2:30 as part of the "YMA Classic Live" series.

The concert will be held at the Grand Gallery within the museum. The current exhibition is "Isamu Noguchi Connecting the World through Sculpture."

After graduating from Toho Gakuen School of Music, Kei Hirayama received her Master's degree from the Yale School of Music in 2000. She is the recipient of the first prize at the Japan Flute Convention. In 2004-2005, she played with the Wien Philharmonic Orchestra.

Hirayama and Sasaki will be performing the following pieces:

1. Garry Schocker - Airborne
2. Muchinsky - from Sonata
3. Burton - Sonatina
4. Anonymous - Amazing Grace

More information about the Museum, the Exhibition, and the Concert is available here.

Date	Saturday 17 June, 2:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Place	Yokohama Museum of Art, 3-4-, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, 220-0012; Phone:045-221-0300. Please click here for a map.
Questions	Please contact Hirayama-san directly at keiflute@music.prserv.net if you have any questions.

Whim 'n Rhythm 2006 & Jim Brooke's Sayonara - June 2006

In a joint evening presentation with the FCCJ, the Yale Club of Japan is hosting the Whim 'n Rhythm, Yale's premier female a capella singing group, for what promises to be a delightful early summer evening of music.

Charming audiences from Maine to Hong Kong; from California to the White House, the Whim 'n Rhythm brings professional musicianship, a sophisticated spirit and an elegant presence to every memorable performance. They have a diverse repertoire ranging from jazz standards to classical show tunes; contemporary pop favorites to traditional ballads and occasionally a Whim 'n Rhythm original.

This year is their 25th anniversary and they are marking this with a seven-week world tour of Asia, Europe and Hawaii. For more about the Whim 'n Rhythm, click here.

The evening will also be a time to bid farewell to Jim Brooke, who has been President of the Yale Club of Japan since it was reactivated in 2002. Jim has done a wonderful job building up the Club and it is our intention to keep him on our active mailing list with the title "President Emeritus". Should he visit Tokyo, we will arrange a special Homecoming Event during which we will give him the chance to share with us tales of intrigue and mystery that he will acquire during his travels around the Russian state.

The new co-presidents, Rick Samuelson and Ben Seiver, will take part in the festivities, along with the first group of "Bulldogs in Tokyo" - Yale undergraduate summer interns.

So join us at the FCCJ on June 5th for another memorable evening!

Date	Monday 5 June.
Time	6:30 p.m. - Drinks 7:00 p.m. - Buffet dinner 8:00 p.m. - Concert
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	Adults JPY3,675 including tax, children under 12: JPY2,100 (includes buffet - drinks extra).

Private Tour of Hiroshi Sugimoto's The End of Time - Dec. 2005

The End of Time

The Yale Club of Japan and the Harvard Club of Japan present a museum walk with David Elliott, Director of Mori Museum and the first non-Japanese director in an art museum in Japan, for a private tour of the Hiroshi Sugimoto's exhibition, The End of Time.

"Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of the most significant Japanese contemporary artists to have emerged in the last 30 years. In his photographic series, as well as his experiments with sculptural objects, architecture and exhibition design, Sugimoto attempts to highlight and expand our perception of such abstract qualities as time, light, space, movement, spirit - and the nature of reality itself. Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time represents the first chance to survey the artist's whole photographic work, made from the 1970s until the present. It includes his best-known works, such as the Dioramas, which he photographed, in life-like detail, at natural history and other museums; Seascapes, depicting oceans around the world; Theatres, for which he sets his exposure times to the length of the film showing; and other series: Portraits, Architecture, Sea of Buddha and Conceptual Forms. The exhibition also includes the artist’s most recent experiments: fusions of photography with architecture and traditional Noh theatre. Colors of Shadow, a new series of color photographs of changing light in the artist’s studio, will have its world premiere. The exhibition is designed by Sugimoto and incorporates a Noh stage, on which a Noh play will be performed. Visitors can also enjoy a sound installation created by Sugimoto in collaboration with internationally renowned sound artist Ikeda Ryoji. The exhibition will travel to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., and other venues in 2006."

"Born in Tokyo in 1948, Sugimoto left Japan in 1970 after graduating from Rikkyo University with a degree in economics. He traveled throughout the Soviet Union and Europe and then moved to Los Angeles, where he studied photography at the Art Center College of Design. His work has been exhibited in group and solo shows internationally and he was the recipient of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 2001 and the Mainichi Art Prize in 1988. He currently lives in New York and Tokyo."

Date	Friday, 2 December
Time	6:45 p.m. sharp - Gathering 7:00 p.m. - Tour starts 8:00 p.m. - Casual party at Museum Cafe
Place	Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, 53/F, 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku
Cost	Tour fee is JPY 2,000 per person. Party: Buy your own light food and drinks at the Museum Cafe.
Signup	Spaces are limited so RSVP as soon as possible by e-mailing Engin Yenidunya

Reception for Yale University President Richard C. Levin - Nov. 2005

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Harvard-Princeton-Yale HaPpY Hour - "Yale Bar Review" V - July 2005

Whim 'n Rhythm 2005 Tokyo Concert - June 2005

This summer, Whim 'n Rhythm, Yale's only all-senior female a cappella group, will return to Japan as part of their annual World Tour. About two weeks after the Whiffenpoofs concert at the FCCJ, the Yale Club of Japan invited you to another special evening of fine cuisine and music at Fujimamas in Omotesando, the venue for the Yale Club-sponsored Shades concert in March 2005.

Start out the evening with a champagne reception and Chef Mark Vann's original Asian canapés. Then sit back and enjoy world-famous Whim 'n Rhythm for an intimate evening concert. After the concert, everyone can mingle and enjoy a full buffet party with Fujimamas Festive cuisine.

Whim 'n Rhythm is the premier undergraduate female a capella singing group in the United States that has achieved international renown over the past 24 years, delighting audiences from Maine to Tokyo, from Club Med to the White House. Whim 'n Rhythm's eclectic selection of songs appeals to a wide variety of musical tastes, and concerts can be tailored to fit any occasion. The repertoire ranges from upbeat jazz standards and classic show tunes to contemporary pop favorites and traditional ballads.

Whim 'n Rhythm performs throughout the academic year at college campuses, private parties, clubs, corporate functions, preparatory schools, restaurants, and resorts across the United States. Each year, the concert season culminates in an international tour following graduation from Yale College in May. At six weeks and seven countries, World Tour 2005 is one of the most ambitious undertakings in Whim's recent history.

Whim was founded in 1981 by a group of seven Yale women who came together to create what had long been absent from Yale's a capella tradition: a senior women's singing group. The original members combined their musical talent with a solid interest in promoting the equal role of women.

Please click here for Whim 'n Rhythm's web page.

Date	Wednesday 29 June.
Time	7:00 p.m.
Place	Fujimamas, 6-3-2 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001, tel. (03) 5485-2262. Please click here for map and directions.
Cost	JPY5,000 per person for concert and dinner including one welcome drink
Signup	Seats are limited so please RSVP early by e-mailing Lauren Shannon of Fujimamas or by calling 03-5485-2262. Please e-mail Sarah Chihaya, Whim 'n Rhythm's World Tour Manager if you have any suggestions, leads, or questions regarding concerts.

The Yale Whiffenpoofs 2005 Tokyo Concert - June 2005

Every year, 14 senior Yale men are selected to be in the Whiffenpoofs, the world's oldest and best-known collegiate a cappella group. The Whiffenpoofs take their song and spirit around the world each year on a thirteen-week tour after Yale graduation.

The Yale Club of Japan invites you to enjoy the Yale Whiffenpoofs 2005 at an evening of drinks, dinner, and music at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Wednesday, 15 June. A portion of all concert proceeds from their world tour will benefit the Whiffenpoof Children's Literacy Initiative.

"Founded in 1909, the "Whiffs" have grown from their humble beginnings as Monday night crooners at Mory's Temple Bar (a Yale institution in itself, dating back to 1848) to claim a permanent niche in American culture. Cole Porter, Yale Class of 1913, highlights the list of noteworthy Whiffenpoof alumni, which also includes Senator Prescott Bush, father of former President George Bush. Rudy Vallee (Whiffs of 1927) gave "The Whiffenpoof Song" nationwide recognition when he recorded a solo version of the ballad in the 1930s, and later, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald (made an honorary Whiffenpoof in 1979), Bing Crosby, and Elvis Presley followed suit with their own recordings.

In recent years, satisfied clients have included hotels, corporations, and the likes of Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, Mother Theresa, and the Dalai Lama, in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Rose Bowl, and for events such as the World Series, Saturday Night Live, NBC's Today Show and The West Wing. A cappella arrangements of jazz standards, classic ballads, traditional Yale songs, and recent popular hits continue to delight audience all over the world."

Please click here for The Whiffenpoofs website.

Date	Wednesday 15 June.
Time	6:30 p.m. - Drinks 7:00 p.m. - Dinner 8:00 p.m. - Concert - two sets of 30 minutes.
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	The price will be JPY3,675 per person for dinner and concert; pay in cash at the dinner (JPY2,100 for children up to 12). There will be a cash bar available.
Signup	Please reserve in advance by calling the FCCJ's Front Desk at 03-3211-3161. Please e-mail Eric Hundman of The Yale Whiffenpoofs or e-mail Engin Yenidunya of The Yale Club of Japan if you have any questions.

Dinner with Ambassador Ryozo Kato, Japan's Ambassador E.&P. to the United States - May 2005

H.E. Ambassador Kato

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Ambassador Ryozo Kato, Japan's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States, will be briefly in Tokyo in mid-May and has agreed to speak to a dinner event of the Yale Club of Japan on Wednesday, 18 May. The cash bar will open at 6:00 p.m. Dinner will start at 7:00 p.m. Then Ambassador Kato will give a short speech followed by a question and answer session.

Ambassador Kato has been Japan's Ambassador in Washington since shortly after September 11, 2001. A Yale graduate (Yale Law School '66), he is spearheading the new drive to strengthen ties between Yale and Japan.

Please reserve Wednesday, 18 May, to come and hear this very interesting observer of Yale and Japan, the United States and Japan.

Ambassador Kato, who assumed his current post as Japan's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States in November 2001, arrived in Washington, D.C. following a distinguished diplomatic career spanning over 30 years. A graduate of Tokyo University's Faculty of Law and Yale Law School, he served at the Embassy of Japan in the U.S. twice before, the first time in 1967 as Third Secretary, and in 1987 as Minister. In addition, in the 1970s he was posted at the Embassy of Japan in Australia and in the Arab Republic of Egypt. In the Foreign Ministry, he served in the North American Affairs Bureau as Director, National Security Affairs Division in 1981, and as Deputy Director-General in 1992. In 1994, he was appointed Consul-General of Japan in San Francisco. Following his tenure in San Francisco, he held the position of Director-General, North American Affairs Bureau in 1995, and Director-General of the Foreign Policy Bureau in 1997. Most recently, he served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Please click here for Ambassador Kato's biography, recent interviews and speeches.

Date	Wednesday 18 May
Time	6:00 p.m. - Cocktails 7:00 p.m. - Dinner 8:15 p.m. - Talk 9:00 p.m. - Question & Answer
Place	Tokyo American Club, 2-1-2 Azabudai, Minato-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	JPY4,000 per person for the buffet dinner and one standard drink; pay in cash at the dinner. There will also be a cash bar available.
Signup	Because TAC needs an accurate headcount to prepare the buffet dinner, please RSVP by e-mail directly to Engin Yenidunya and include your Yale affiliation and graduation year and the name of your guest(s).

The Duke's Men of Yale in Japan - May 2005

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Over Yale's winter and spring breaks, The Duke's Men travel around the United States, singing for schools, businesses, churches, private clubs, and parties. This summer, they are trying something completely new: a trip to Japan and Thailand. They will be in Japan from May 12th through May 17th and are currently booked to perform at the following venues and times:

Friday, 13 May: Performance at the Park Hotel Tokyo, Shiodome - 25th Floor (Lobby), 8:00 pm (40 minute set) - No cover charge but if guests would like to sit at 'the lounge' and listen, drinks would be at cost.
Saturday, 14 May: World Expo performance in Aichi (all day)
Sunday, 15 May: Tokyo Union Church, Omotesando, performances, 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. (2 songs)
Monday, 16 May: Nishimachi International School, Moto Azabu, performance, 2:30 pm (45 minute set)
Monday, 16 May: Public concert at Tokyo Union Church, Omotesando, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, 17 May: Concert at Keio Yochisha School at 11:20 a.m. (40 minute set)

The concerts at the Park Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo Union Church, and possibly the Nishimachi International School will be open to the public. They are finalizing information on a series of concerts in the Marunouchi area and will keep us posted on those. They will not be charging admission, but will be asking for donations around 1,000-1,500 yen. They will also be selling t-shirts and CDs.

During their stay in Tokyo, these young men will also need volunteers of guest rooms or futons. Hosting a singer or two or three is a great way to find out what is going through undergraduates' lives and to remember that time of your life. Balancing a heavy music and academic load, the Yale singers are always dedicated and interesting young people. Please e-mail Mark Havel, their Tour Director, directly and CC: Bob Howe if you can host, how many, what days/nights. The Duke's Men would really appreciate any help that you could provide.

The year was 1952. The crime -- theft and betrayal. One Basil Duke Henning, Master of Saybrook College and former Whiffenpoof, stole a Whiff arrangement and presented it to four of his eager freshmen. Thus, the Duke's Men were born. Over the past 52 years, "da doox" have grown from a young quartet into a rowdy family of more than 350 singers. In the process, they've become one of the most respected singing groups in the U.S. They tour internationally, record albums, and charm presidents and preschoolers alike. Just this year they were featured on a CBS Sunday Morning special!

Today their repertoire is a diverse mix of old favorites and modern gems that includes their own arrangements of jazz, pop, soul, classical, showtunes, and one Gaelic song about seaweed. On recent tours they've performed at Westminster in London, the American Ambassador's residence in Paris, a restaurant in Hawaii, and at a Miami Heat game. Their audiences have included such notables as Vanna White, Sam Waterston, and Bill and Hillary Clinton (twice!)

This year, The Duke's Men sang at The White House's Christmas Gala, serenading hundreds of Congressmen and cabinet members. They are also National Semi-finalists in the Inter-Collegiate Competition of A Cappella. They have sung for international best-selling author Dan Brown, of Da Vinci Code fame. They also just recently released their newest CD recording, Nobody's Business.

Please click here for The Duke's Men's website.

Date

Thursday, 12 May - Tuesday, 17 May. Please see above for their performance schedule.

Suggestions

Please e-mail Mark Havel, Tour Director of The Duke's Men of Yale, directly and CC: Bob Howe if you can host any Duke's Men when they are in town. Please indicate how many and what days/nights.

Please e-mail Matthew Thunell, Summer Tour Manager of The Duke's Men of Yale, if you have any questions regarding concerts.

Dinner with Yale Educational Travel's "Springtime in Japan" Tour Participants - April 2005

Judith Cushingham, Director for Education at the Association of Yale Alumni, and David Sensabaugh, Curator of Asian Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, will be accompanying a group of 33 Yale alumni to Japan in April as part of Yale Educational Travel's "Springtime in Japan" tour.

The group will arrive in Tokyo about midday on Friday, 22 April, and will tour the National Museum followed by dinner at the Hotel New Otani garden restaurant. On Saturday, 23 April, they have sightseeing until about 3:00 pm with the rest of the afternoon on their own.

Ms. Cushingham e-mailed us asking whether any Yale Club of Japan members would be interested in joining some Yale travelers for dinner at a local restaurant on Saturday evening, 23 April. The group departs Tokyo the morning of Sunday, 24 April 24.

Please e-mail Judith Cushingham and Engin Yenidunya if you would be interested in attending such a dinner or if you have an alternative suggestion.

Please click here for further information on the Springtime in Japan tour and here for Yale Educational Travel's website.

Date	Saturday 23 April.
Signup	Please e-mail Judith Cushingham and Engin Yenidunya if you would be interested in attending such a dinner or if you have an alternative suggestion.

Evening with Carl Kay: Saying Yes to Japan - April 2005

The Harvard Club of Japan cordially invites members of the Yale Club of Japan and their guests to their next event, an evening with Carl Kay, a 1978 graduate of Harvard College, member of the HCJ Board of Directors, and author of the recently-published book, Saying Yes to Japan. The event will be held at the Tokyo American Club on Wednesday, 27 April from 7-10 pm. Heavy hors d'oeuvres will be served, followed by Mr. KayÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s talk. Please refer to the below for a synopsis of Mr. KayÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s talk:

"Many foreigners living in Japan experience a vague sense of frustration with the poor service one typically gets in Japanese hospitals, banks, rental agencies, and other places which affect very basic elements of the quality of life: health, money, home. It turns out that many Japanese share similar dissatisfactions, though rarely have local companies addressed the consumer needs hidden beneath Japan's polite surface.

A few insightful foreigners are seizing upon these problems as entrepreneurial opportunities, finding the poor state of Japan's service sector economy fertile ground for starting dynamic new companies or revitalizing large but moribund old ones. Carl Kay's new book Saying Yes to Japan, co-authored with Tim Clark, weaves success stories of these foreign entrepreneurs with analysis and incisive commentary on how Japan got this way and where it is going. Carl himself is a successful entrepreneur who after graduating summa cum laude from Harvard's East Asian Languages and Civilizations Dept in 1978, started a company in Cambridge that grew to be the United States' leading specialist in Japanese translation and software localization. In 1998, with 40 employees in two countries and annual sales of $4 million, Kay successfully sold the company to Lionbridge and embarked on a new career as an advisor to startup companies and a commentator on Japanese business and culture. He is the only non-Japanese board member of the METI-sponsored Japan Translation Federation and serves as admissions interview coordinator in Japan for Harvard.

In the evening's talk, Mr. Kay will introduce the book's themes which will be of great interest to entrepreneurs, people from large companies looking for new markets, investors seeking emerging trends, and anyone who wants to see how the "outsider's" perspective can be a valuable business tool and catalyst for change in Japan."

Please click here for further information on Mr. Kay and here for further information about the book.

Date	Wednesday 27 April.
Time	7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Place	Tokyo American Club, 2-1-2 Azabudai, Minato-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	JPY4,000 per person payable at the door. There will be a cash bar available.
Signup	Please RSVP by Wednesday, 20 April, to HCJ Vice-President Marcy Wilder. Please provide your name, school affiliation, and names of guests.

Yale-Dartmouth Joint Mixer - "The Yale Bar Review" IV - March 2005

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Following our successful joint Bar Review events with the Harvard Club in December and the Penn Club in February, join us at The FootNik in Ebisu when we partner up with the Dartmouth Club of Japan for the fourth session in our Yale Bar Review series.

The FootNik, a 1-minute walk from Ebisu JR and subway station, is a British-style pub that is considered the "home of football in Tokyo." The FootNik offers a traditional pub food menu and a wide range of drinks including several beers on tap.

This event is a great opportunity to catch up with fellow Yalies in a relaxed atmosphere as well as to meet new friends and make new connections with Dartmouth alumni. And no sign-up is necessary - all you have to do is show up!

Please click here for photos from the joint Yale-Harvard event last December and the Yale-Penn event in February.

Date	Thursday 24 March.
Time	7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Place	The FootNik, Asahi Building, 1/F, 1-11-2 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku (Ph: 03-5795-0144). Please click here for a map. Ask for Engin or the Yale table when you arrive.
Cost	Cash bar - pay as you go.
Signup	No sign-up required - just show up and enjoy. Please e-mail Engin Yenidunya if you have any questions.

Dinner with Professor Salovey, Dean of Yale College, and Shades - March 2005 Dean Salovey

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Professor Peter Salovey, Dean of Yale College, will be our guest of honor at this evening of dinner, talk and questions at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, strategically located downtown for intercepting the maximum number of members coming off work. The cash bar at the "Yale Room" will open at 6:00 p.m. Dinner will start at 7:00 p.m. and will be accompanied by a performance by Shades. Then Dean Salovey will tell us about Yale today, and open the floor up for questions.

Peter Salovey, Dean of Yale College, is the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology. He was the Chair of the Department of Psychology from 2000-2003 and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University from 2003-2004. Dr. Salovey is also Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. He directs the Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory and is deputy director of the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. He also has affiliations with the Yale Cancer Center and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

Professor Salovey received an A.B. in Psychology and a co-terminal M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University in 1980. He holds three Yale degrees in psychology: an M.S. (1983), M.Phil. (1984), and Ph.D. (1986). Salovey was President of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate at Yale in 1983-84. He joined the Yale faculty as an assistant professor in 1986 and has been a full professor since 1995.

Salovey's research has focused on the psychological significance and function of human moods and emotions, and the application of social psychological principles to motivate people to adopt behaviors that protect their health. His recent work concerns the ways in which emotions facilitate adaptive cognitive and behavioral functioning. With John D. Mayer, he developed a broad framework, coined "emotional intelligence," to describe how people understand, manage and use their emotions. His recent work on health behavior has included field experiments evaluating how educational and public health messages can best be tailored to promote prevention and early detection behaviors relevant to cancer and HIV/AIDS.

Salovey has published about 200 articles and chapters, and he has authored, coauthored, or edited 11 books. He edits the Guilford Press series Emotions and Social Behavior, and he has served as Editor or Associate Editor for three scientific journals: Psychological Bulletin, Review of General Psychology, and Emotion.

Salovey, who has taught the Introductory Psychology course since his first days on the faculty, was awarded the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College in 2000 and the Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching in the Social Sciences at Yale in 2002. In his leisure time, Salovey plays stand-up bass with The Professors of Bluegrass.

Shades was the Ivy League's first a cappella group founded to sing black music. This year, the group will perform gospel greats, music from the Caribbean, South Africa, and songs by Aretha Franklin, Erykah Badu, Take 6, Quincy Jones, Mary J. Blige, and Sweet Honey in the Rock.

For more detailed information on Professor Salovey's research and his Curriculum Vita, please click here for his personal homepage. For more information on Shades, please click here for the Shades homepage.

Date	Wednesday 16 March.
Time	6:00 p.m. - Cocktails 7:00 p.m. - Dinner and Shades performance 8:15 p.m. - Talk 9:00 p.m. - Question & Answer
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	The price will be JPY3,500 per person for buffet dinner; pay in cash at the dinner. There will be a cash bar available.
Signup	Because the FCCJ needs an accurate headcount to prepare the buffet dinner, please RSVP by e-mail directly to Engin Yenidunya and include your Yale affiliation and graduation year and the name of your guest(s).

Shades Concert and Dinner at Fujimamas - March 2005

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The Yale Club of Japan is sponsoring Shades' concert at the Omotesando restaurant, Fujimamas. Shades was the Ivy League's first a cappella group founded to sing black music. This year, the group will perform gospel greats, music from the Caribbean, South Africa, and songs by Aretha Franklin, Erykah Badu, Take 6, Quincy Jones, Mary J. Blige, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. Great music, conversation, food and drink! Asian Tapas and Champagne...

Shades will be in Tokyo from March 6th to March 13th. They would be grateful to find volunteers willing to house and feed one or two group members for the duration of their visit. Please click here for other Shades requests for rehearsal space, nights out, and free fun.

Please click here for the Shades homepage.

Date	Thursday 10 March.
Time	8:00 p.m. (Doors open 7:30 p.m.)
Place	Fujimamas, 6-3-2 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001, tel. (03) 5485-2262. Please click here for map and directions.
Cost	JPY5,000 for Asian tapas, champagne, and concert.
Signup	Please e-mail Peter Hasegawa, Shades Asia Tour Manager, or call him at 090-6159-3979 to reserve.

Dinner with Yoriko Kawaguchi, Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs Advisor and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Yale Graduate School '72) - March 2005

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Yoriko Kawaguchi has served as Japan's Minister of Environment, and most recently as Minister of Foreign Affairs. For two years, through last October, Kawaguchi-sensei traveled indefatigably, advocating Japan’s interests in the United States, Europe, Russia, China and the Koreas. Now as Prime Minister Koizumi frames his policies for Japan, he turns to the woman who will be the guest of honor at our first dinner event of the year. This evening of dinner, talk and questions will take place at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. Kawaguchi-sensei comes to us through the fine efforts of fellow Yalie, Senator Kotaro Tamura, who will be our moderator. The cash bar at the "Yale Room" will open at 6:00 p.m.

Prior to serving as Foreign Minister, Kawaguchi-sensei served as Minister of the Environment, succeeding her appointment as Minister of State and Director-General of the Environment Agency in July 2000. Aside from her cabinet position, she served as a member of the Trilateral Commission and a special member of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.

Prior to her appointment to the cabinet, she was a managing director of Suntory Ltd. since 1993, responsible for customer relations and environment. At that time she was also serving on Japanese Government advisory boards, namely the Regulatory Reform Committee, the Central Council for Education, and the University Council. She was also on the board of directors of the Japan Center for International Exchange and on the advisory committee of the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation.

Before joining Suntory Ltd., she worked in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) of the Japanese Government. Her past assignments for MITI included Director-General for Global Environmental Affairs. She also had worked for the World Bank as an economist and for the Embassy of Japan in the United States as Minister. She got her M. Phil. in Economics at Yale University and her B.A. in International Relations at University of Tokyo.

For more detailed information on Yoriko Kawaguchi's background, please click here.

Date	Monday 7 March.
Time	6:00 p.m. - Cocktails 7:30 p.m. - Dinner 8:15 p.m. - Talk 9:00 p.m. - Question & Answer
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	The price will be about JPY3,500 per person for buffet dinner; pay in cash at the dinner. There will be a cash bar available.
Signup	Because the FCCJ needs an accurate headcount to prepare the buffet dinner, please RSVP by e-mail to Engin Yenidunya.

Yale-Penn Joint Mixer - "The Yale Bar Review" III - February 2005

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Following our successful joint Bar Review event with the Harvard Club in December, join the Yale Club of Japan in our kick-off event of the year at SuperDeluxe when we partner up with the Penn Club of Japan for the third session in our Yale Bar Review series.

This event is a great opportunity to catch up with fellow Yalies in a relaxed atmosphere as well as to meet new friends and make new connections with Penn alumni. And no sign-up is necessary - all you have to do is show up!

SuperDeluxe, between Roppongi Hills and Nishi Azabu, is a meeting place for "thinking drinking people" and events at SuperDeluxe are "often interesting people doing interesting things." All drinks are selected and prepared by the Tokyo Brewing Company and wholesome food is available.

Please click here for photos from the joint Yale-Harvard event in December.

Date	Thursday 17 February.
Time	7:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Place	SuperDeluxe. B1/F 3-1-25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku (Between Roppongi Hills and Nishi Azabu on Roppongi dori). Please click here for a map.
Cost	Cash bar - pay as you go.
Signup	No sign-up required - just show up and enjoy. Please e-mail Engin Yenidunya if you have any questions.

The Game 2004 at Legends Sports Bar - "The Yale Bar Review" II - Joint Event with the Harvard Club of Japan - December 2004

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Join the Yale Club of Japan for a viewing of the Game 2004 - the Yale-Harvard football class of Ivy Titans. We have also invited the Harvard Club of Japan to join us to make things even more interesting. Now that the Bush-Kerry race is over, come see their spiritual descendants debate quarterback and wide receiver homeland security on the gridiron. Snacks and dinner available.

Please click here for the homepage of the Yale Bulldogs, here for "Elis, Cantabs, Boston cops at Game this year" published by the Yale Herald on 1 October 2004 and here for "A History of the Game" by the Yale Record.

Date	Thursday 2 December 2004.
Time	7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Place	Legends Sports Bar, Aoba Roppongi Building, 1/F, 3-16-33 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Next door to Hobgoblin Roppongi; diagonally across from Roi Building towards Tokyo Tower). Please click here for a map.
Cost	Pay as you go.
Signup	No sign-up required - just show up and enjoy. Please e-mail Engin Yenidunya if you have any questions.

Dinner with Professor Kuniko Inoguchi, Japan's expert on WMD Disarmament - November 2004

Kuniko Inoguchi [Please click here for PHOTOS from this event.]

Did the Right Yalie or Wrong Yalie Win?

In response to popular email clamor, Yale Club of Japan will have an Expanded post-Election Cocktail Hour after work on Friday Nov. 12, starting at 6 pm at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, Yurakucho. Come and commiserate, come and celebrate, come and get group therapy, come and get insight from fellow Yalies.

The cocktail hour-and-a-half offers a natural segway to our even more timely dinner speaker, Professor Kuniko Inoguchi, who will talk on how a Bush II Administration will impact the effort to contain nuclear weapons programs in North Korea, Iran and elsewhere.

Prof. Inoguchi, a Yale graduate, served for two years until last spring as Japan's Permanent Representative to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Now a professor at Sophia University, Prof. Inoguchi can give a frank, insider's assessment of the outlook for keeping the nuclear bomb genie inside the bottle. For more background on this rising star of Japanese diplomacy, Inoguchi-sensei's bio is available on her personal web page here.

This timely evening of dinner, talk and questions will take place at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. Strategically located downtown for intercepting the maximum number of members coming off work. The cash bar at the "Yale Room" will open at 6:00 p.m.

Date	Friday 12 November 2004.
Time	6:00 p.m. - Cocktails 7:30 p.m. - Dinner 8:15 p.m. - Talk 9:00 p.m. - Question & Answer
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	The price will be JPY3,500 per person for buffet dinner; pay in cash at the dinner. There will be a cash bar available.
Signup	Because the FCCJ needs an accurate headcount to prepare the buffet dinner, please RSVP by e-mail directly to Peter Hasegawa.

The Inaugural "Yale Bar Review" at Hobgoblin Roppongi - October 2004

Happy Hour The Yale Club of Japan is inaugurating what is to become a tradition: a monthly meeting of "The Yale Bar Review." No RSVP necessary for these informal social gatherings.

Happy Hour prices on all drinks. Snacks and dinner available. Come for 5 minutes within your busy schedule, or stay with us for the duration. Table will be in back right of the Pub.

Date	Thursday 28 October 2004.
Time	7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Place	Hobgoblin Roppongi, Aoba Roppongi Building, 1/F, 3-16-33 Roppongi, Minato-ku (Diagonally across from Roi Building towards Tokyo Tower). Please click here for a map.
Cost	Pay as you go.
Signup	No sign-up required - just show up and enjoy. Please e-mail Engin Yenidunya if you have any questions.

Dinner with Professor Ian Shapiro, Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies - October 2004

The endless summer appears to be finally cooling down, so it is time to kickoff our new Yale Club of Japan season.

Our first event will be Thursday Oct. 7, Professor Ian Shapiro, director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Prof. Shapiro will be in town for only 72 hours, but has graciously agreed to speak to us a cocktails and dinner event at the Tokyo American Club, in Roppongi.

With the U.S. election a month away (once again a contest between two Yalies), Prof. Shapiro will give a forward looking tour d'horizon on what to expect on American foreign policy coming from Washington. The topic: "Bush II or Kerry I."

Prof. Shapiro is former head of Yale's political science department, and has an impressive resume. More background on Prof. Shapiro can be found here.

Date	Friday 7 October 2004.
Time	6:30 p.m. - Cocktails 7:30 p.m. - Dinner 8:15 p.m. - Talk 9:00 p.m. - Question & Answer
Place	Tokyo American Club, 2-1-2 Azabudai, Minato-ku. Please click here for a map.
Cost	JPY4,500 per person for the buffet, seated dinner; pay in cash at the dinner. There will be a cash bar available.
Signup	Please RSVP by e-mail directly to Engin Yenidunya who will be counting heads.

Dinner with Gillian Tett, Author of Saving the Sun - March 2004

It has been a while since we had a speaker, but this will change on Wednesday evening, March 17th when Gillian Tett, author of Saving the Sun, will address us at the FCCJ.

Saving the Sun is the dramatic story of the rise, crash, and re-invention of Long Term Credit Bank, now known as Shinsei Bank. From the book's inside cover: "...Filled with dramatic scenes involving some of the most important figures and institutions in international finance-Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, John Reed, Goldman Sachs, UBS, and CSFB-Saving the Sun charts the growing confusion between a government eager to revive the economy but unwilling to accept the necessary compromises and the Western bankers who too openly scorned Japanese capitalism and its paramount interest in social harmony over pure profit.

Gillian Tett was trained as a social anthropologist but became a journalist while doing field work in Soviet Central Asia during the fall of communism in Russia. Since that time she has risen through the ranks of the Financial Times, holding positions on its economics desk before becoming the bureau chief in Japan. She now lives in London."

The evening will begin with cocktails at 6:30pm (cash bar), dinner starting at 7:00 and the lecture at 8:00. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Date	Wednesday 17 March 2004.
Time	6:30 p.m. - Cocktails 7:00 p.m. - Dinner 8:00 p.m. - Lecture
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku.
Cost	JPY3,500 per person payable in cash at the door. There will be a cash bar available.
Signup	Space is limited so please respond early to Benjamin Seiver (seiver.benjamin@aig.co.jp) or takahasiay@aig.co.jp.

Wine Tasting and Fusion Cuisine at Fujimama's - September 2003

Come taste a rich sampling of Hotei Wine's selections from California, Fujimamas' delicious fusion cuisine, and the more delicious company of fellow Yale Club members

Bill and Melanie Campbell started Hotei Wines as a personal passion, leaving behind financial careers for more liquid assets. For background, see www.hoteiwines.com. Mark Vann and Lisa Smith brought a similar passion to an old tatami factory in Omotesando. See www.fujimamas.com for information and map.

The Events Committee will meet at 6:45 to discuss Club events for this autumn and confirm the quality of the wines before general membership risk their palates. Help us with ideas and wine. Join the Events Committee!

Date	Wednesday 24 September 2003.
Time	7:15 p.m. - Pouring and hors d'ouvres 7:45 p.m. - Dinner and more pouring 9:15 p.m. - Finish
Place	Fujimamas is two tiny blocks from Meiji Dori along Omotesando Dori, walking toward route 246 from Harajuku. Turn right after the Lacoste store. 6-3-2 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001, tel. (03) 5485-2262
Cost	JPY6,000 per person.
Signup	RSVP by e-mail to Howe@geomatrix-investment.com. If you must cancel for any reason, please let us know by 7pm the 23rd (090-4521-1434), or reimburse Yale Club Y6000.

The Yale Whiffenpoofs - Whim 'n' Rhythm '03 Joint Concert - June 2003

Come hear the Yale Whiffenpoofs and Whim 'n' Rhythm Thurs. June 19. It is said that, after scent, nothing evokes memory like a song. Come to the FCCJ for a Whiff of your bright college or university years. The Yale Club of Japan is hosting the Whiffenpoofs and Whim'n Rhythm for what promises to be a magical summer evening of music on Thursday, June 19 at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan.

Whim'n Rhythm bill themselves as "Yale University's premier female a cappella group" and counterpart to the Whiffs. Bob Howe writes: The Whiffenpoofs are the A-Team of singers from all the other male groups, and they join for just their senior year. They have appeared at Carnegie Hall, on the U.S. television show, "West Wing", have entertained heads of state [click to enlarge the photo above - with George W. Bush] and other Yalie wannabees for several generations.

It is a rare treat to have a joint concert, so call the FCCJ and reserve your seats fast. The concert will be open to FCCJ members and Harvard and Princeton clubs, so we hope to have a large Yale turnout!

Date	Thursday 19 June 2003.
Time	6:30 p.m. - Drinks 7:00 p.m. - Dinner 8:00 p.m. - Concert 8:30 p.m. - Question & Answer
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku.
Cost	JPY3,500 per person for dinner and the concert. There will be a cash bar available. Singing group CDs will be on sale in lobby after program.
Signup	Call the FCCJ at 3211-3161 to reserve your seats.

"Yalies in the Diet" - Dinner at the FCCJ - January 2003

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 click here for the Background Reading - "Yale beats Harvard in Japan politics -- this time."

Date	Tuesday 7 January 2003.
Time	6:30 p.m. - Cocktails 7:15 p.m. - Buffet dinner 7:45 p.m. - Speech 8:30 p.m. - Question & Answer
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku.
Cost	JPY3,000 per person for buffet dinner. There will be a cash bar available.
Signup	Please RSVP by 24 December to japanclub@aya.yale.edu.

"Journalists on Japan" - An Inter-Ivy Dinner at the FCCJ - December 2002

An Inter-Ivy dinner at the FCCJ; moderated by Bruce Dunning, CBS News, president of the Princeton Club; panel with: Rebecca MacKinnon of CNN-Tokyo (Harvard); Clay Chandler of Fortune-Hong Kong (Harvard); Nathalie Pearson Associated Press-Tokyo (Princeton); and Yalies -- Michiyo Nakamoto (Financial Times) and Jim Brooke (New York Times).

Date	Friday 13 December 2002.
Time	6:30 p.m. - Cocktails 7:00 p.m. - Buffet dinner
Place	The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, 20/F, Yurakucho Denki Building, 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku.
Signup	Please RSVP to Bruce Dunning BGD@cbsnews.com with a copy to: yaleclubjapan@hotmail.com

Viewing of The Game 2002 at Hobgoblin Roppongi - December 2002

Yale-Harvard game tape showing at Hobgoblin in Roppongi. Reservations not essential, just wear blue, show up, and cheer! For details, please see below.

Date	Saturday 7 December 2002.
Time	Noon. Video will start around 12:30, and finish around 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Place	Hobgoblin Roppongi. If you are coming from Roppongi crossing, walk past Don Quixote (on that side of the road), and it's on the last corner before the Iikura-katamachi Kosaten. (right by the supermarket).
Signup	For more information, email: Makiko Harunari: makiko.harunari@aya.yale.edu or makeex@livedoor.com.

Dinner with Professor Gus Ranis, Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies - August 2002

Dinner with Philip W. Pillsbury (Yale College '24), Chairman of the Yale University Alumni Board and Chairman of the Pillsbury Co. - May 1961

"A welcome reception was held for Philip W. Pillsbury, chairman of the Yale University Alumni Board and chairman of the Pillsbury Co., by the Yale Alumni Club of Tokyo at the Imperial Hotel" on 9 May 1961. The Japan Times clipping from 10 May 1961 on the right shows "Rev. Michio Kozaki, pastor of the Reinanzaka Church; Mrs. Arthur K. Mori; Pillsbury and Arthur K. Mori, attorney-at-law and director of the club."

Philip W. Pillsbury (1903-1984) was born in Minnesota and graduated from Yale College in 1924. He was named one of the 20th Century Great American Business Leaders for his tenure at Pillsbury Mills: "When Pillsbury took over control of his family's flour company in 1940, it had sales of $47 million. Pillsbury, however, greatly expanded the business further, acquiring more flour mills and related facilities, while also entering the consumer goods market. At the end of Pillsbury's tenure [in 1952], the company had sales of over $300 million."

In 1963, Pillsbury was one of the recipients of the Yale Medal, the highest award presented by the Association of Yale Alumni, conferred solely to honor outstanding individual service to the University. A total of 246 individuals have received the Yale Medal since its inauguration in 1952.

Mr. Arthur K. Mori, the President of the Yale Alumni Club of Tokyo at the time, was a graduate of the Yale Law School and practiced law in Tokyo. Along with Mr. James B. Anderson, Mr. Mori founded the law firm Anderson Mori.

Please click here for the menu from this event and a larger version of the Japan Times clipping - both kindly provided by Sukeyasu Steven Yamamoto.

Date	Tuesday 9 May 1961.
Place	Imperial Hotel.