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JASC JOURNAL Fall 2009 Welcome JASC’s newest Alumni! 61st JASC Highlights We welcome the latest JASC delegation back from Japan! The 61st JASC American Orientation: brought together 36 American and 36 Japanese delegates from July • Consulate General reception 21 through August 21 in Seattle, Tokyo, Hakodate, Nagano and Kyoto. The American delegation met in Seattle for American Orientation at the Tokyo University of Washington. After learning about Japanese architecture from • Business visits and field trips alumnus Ken Tadashi Oshima, JASC 39 (1987) and meeting with alumni • 75th Anniversary Commemoration Sara Woolsey, JASC 32 (1980), David Gallimore, JASC 35 (1983), Allison Kramer, JASC 52 & 53 (2000 & 2001) and Melissa Burkart, JASC 57 (2005) Hakodate at a send-off reception hosted by Seattle Consul General of Japan Mr. • 150th Anniversary Port Festival Namba, they flew to Tokyo to meet the Japanese delegation. • Fish Auction & Lecture JASC 61 visited Tokyo from July 28th through August 4th. American and Nagano Japanese delegates bonded during an exchange of gifts and culture. • Homestay in Obuse Hiroki Shioji, JASC 24 (1972) helped the student Executive Committee • Matsushiro War & Peace Discussion arrange a special lecture from Mr. Naoki Inose, Vice Governor of the Tokyo • Camping and American BBQ Metropolitan Government. Delegates met officials from the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and were hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a reception at Kyoto Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo. • Final Forum and reception • Kongou Noh Theater performance At the 75th anniversary of JASC, delegates enjoyed commemorative events. Haruo Yamamoto, JASC 16 & 17 (1964 & 1965) reports, “All the 61st JASC student delegates and many alumni from both Japan and the U.S. gathered at the Majima Memorial Hall of Aoyama Gakuin University where the famous group photo was taken in July 1934. We took a commemorative photo in the same place this year.” Wataru Umezaki, JASC 19 (1967) led alumni new and old in singing the JASC Song together. From August 4th to August 9th, JASCers enjoyed a holiday in Hakodate during its 150th Anniversary Port Festival. Delegates visited the Hakodate 61st JASC 2009 Commemorative Photo fish auction and kept up their energy with exercise and games at the Japan Self-Defense Force Naval Base. Professor Ryuichi Teshima and Air Marshall Sadamasa Oue attended a forum on the future of U.S.-Japan diplomacy. Next the delegation traveled to the town of Obuse where they enjoyed a very warm reception from their host families. The delegation dressed in yukata and attended a reception at the beautiful Obuse Flower Garden. The delegates stopped on August 11th in Matsushiro for a day of WWII reflection to visit the Underground Imperial Headquarters and participated in group discussions with a local high school club about war and peace. 1st JASC 1934 at Aoyama Gakuin Continued pg. 2... International Student Conferences 1150 18th Street, NW, Suite LL2 • Washington, DC 20036 • (202) 289-4231 [email protected] • www.iscdc.org 61st JASC Capstone Project Updates Globalizing Economies Roundtable We encourage the open exchange partnership project. Launches GLOBE of ideas and information, so that by Michelle Arguelles, JASC 61 forum members can support and JASC Partnership on International learn from each other. We intend to Development The GLOBE website was a project translate the website into Japanese, by 61st JASC delegates to focus Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian to In order to achieve their goal of on improving the accessibility of allow greater accessibility and extend “creating a medium to engage both BRICs markets for foreign investors our project worldwide. Japanese and American individuals and entrepreneurs. Through our to foster development in developing discussions and field trips at JASC, We hope to expand the GLOBE countries,” the International we discovered the importance of project by setting up a networking Development roundtable created “localization” in global business. system in which people with similar opportunities for online outreach: a We hope to bring together people regional and business interests are Facebook group titled 61st JASC: who care about these issues and grouped together to have a more International Development -- A Real who want to learn about business personal and intensive discussion. Solution and a team on KIVA, the practices in globalizing economies. In these smaller groups, participants person-to-person micro lending GLOBE, or Global-Local Online can move their discussion at a faster website. So far this group has Business Exchange, is a website pace and at their desired level of attracted 69 fans on Facebook and aimed at providing discussion and a depth. collected $125 to be donated via didactic experience for entrepreneurs KIVA to Filipina entrepreneurs. See all over the world. Visitors are free If you are interested in globalizing www.kiva.org/team/61_jasc for more to join the forums and discuss topics economies, please visit our website information. ranging from potential business at http://www.globepartnership.net, models to local business etiquette. join our forums and sign up for our (JASC’s Newest Alumni) Continued from page 1. In Nagano, delegates visited the famous Zenkoji Temple and participated in a forum with keynote speaker Jin Murai, Governor of Nagano prefecture. American delegates held a campout night complete with barbeque, s’mores, scary stories and games in the tradition of summer camp. JASCers arrived in Kyoto, their final site, on August 14th, and enjoyed a private demonstration at the Kongou Noh Theater with explanation by Rachel Straum, JASC 60 & 61 (2008 & 2009). On August 18th, the 61st delegation War and Peace Discussion presented their final projects at Kyoto City International Cultural Exchange Hall at the Final Forum after a speech by Keynote Speaker Dr. Koji Murata of Doshisha University. The audience included JASC alumni, local high school and university students, local organizations and community members. Afterward, each round table set up a booth for guests to ask questions and give feedback on their projects. Delegates enjoyed a final dinner and Talent Show at Temple Ninnaji to celebrate their new friendships and success and expressed thanks the 61st Executive Committee for their hard work planning a great conference. As the 61st JASC came to a close, elections were held and new group of 16 leaders were chosen to continue the tradition for the 62nd JASC in the U.S. next summer. Delegates wear yukata in Obuse 2 Summary of the 62nd JASC Theme: To Understand, To Unite, To Act: Continuous Evolution through Integrated Perspectives July 23 - August 21, 2010 Earlham College, Richmond, IN George Washington University, Washington, DC New Orleans, LA San Francisco, CA JASC 62 Roundtables: Empowering Today’s Youth: Overcoming Challenges in Society Revitalizing Education: The Promotion of Individual Character Security, Military and Peace: The U.S. and Japan Social Entrepreneurship: The Power to Transform Spreading Environmental Awareness in Industrial Developing Nations Sustainable Regionalism: How can urban cities and local communities coexist? The Role of National Identity in the Globalizing Society American Executive Committee: Japanese Executive Committee: Yudai Chiba Princeton University Azusa Kato** Keio University Leah Flake** Smith Colllege Mari Nakamura Tokyo Univ of Foreign Studies Mariama Holman Wake Forest University Toru Omiya University of Tokyo Diane Lee Smith College Natsuki Sakata University of Tokyo David Myers SUNY Geneseo Yuri Sugimoto Kyoto University Ikuno Naka Wellesley College Shuta Takada University of Tokyo Marie Watanabe Wellesley College Hiroki Takahashi Hitotsubashi University Naoki John Yoshida* Cornell University Koichiro Yasukawa* Waseda University *Chair, **Vice-Chair For more information please visit www.iscdc.org or the AEC blog at www. jasc62.blogspot.com Alumnus Named Goodwill Ambassador JASC Wish List Larry Ingraham, JASC 26 (1974) was • Adobe Creative Suite 4 awarded the title of “Tochigi Goodwill Have you seen the beautiful new JASC Ambasssador” in September by Governor posters and brochures? JASC would like Tomikazu Fukuda of Tochigi Prefecture. to upgrade our design software from CS2 Larry received the honor while in Japan to CS4 so that we can continue to produce for the Midwest U.S.-Japan Association print materials to promote JASC. As the Conference held at the Imperial Hotel software is expensive, we’re looking for in Tokyo from September 13-15, the your support in legally securing a donation 24th consecutive Midwest U.S.-Japan of CS4 software or funds to purchase the Association conference that he has program. If you haven’t seen the new JASC attended. At the conference, he met Jennifer Eusebio, JASC 59 62 brochure, check out the web version at (2007), who is now the Coordinator for International Relations for the www.iscdc.org. Tourism Department of Yamanashi Prefecture. Larry was director • Humidifier of the State of Indiana’s East Asian Office in Tokyo from 1983-1986. If you have a gently used humidifier that you Since 1990, he has operated his own consulting firm, Ingraham & would like to donate, please contact us at Associates, to continue to promote business between the U.S. and [email protected]. Japan. Larry lives in Carmel, IN. 3 2009 Roundtable Paper Contest Winners Congratulations to the winners of the 61st RT Paper Contest! First place was awarded to Dylan Tracy of University of Idaho, and second place was awarded to Michelle Arguelles of Boston College. Congratulations are also in order to the winners of honorable mention: Leah Flake of Smith College and Katherine Marshall of Columbia University. Paper Titles • Dylan: Antibiotics and Pharmaceutical Drugs: Our Best Friend or Worst Enemy? • Michelle: How Green is the BRICs Dream? • Leah: Corporate Social Responsibility: Profit, PR, and Pressure in the Face of an Environmental Crisis • Katy: Cracking “The Culture Code”: Balancing Curricular Reform in Japan and the United States Robin Berrington Elected to ISC Board Thanks to our Retiring Board Members ISC is excited to welcome Mr.
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