Anchorage
Japan Summer Festival
The
Japan Summer Festival will be held at Sand Lake
Elementary School on July 7 from 11am-4pm. The
event is being organized by the Japanese Society
of Alaska, Japan Relief Fund of Alaska, Tomo No
Kai and the Consular Office of Japan in
Anchorage.
There
will be many Japanese cultural activities to
participate in and a lot of Japanese food to
enjoy.
The
Japanese Society of Alaska will also raffle 2
round-trip tickets to Japan on United
Airlines!!
Everyone
is welcome to attend!
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Email:
cjak4@se.mofa.go.jp
Telephone:
(907)
562-8424
Fax:
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562-8434 | |
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Anchorage Consular
Office welcomes new Head of
Office
In
late March the Consular Office of Japan in
Anchorage welcomed Koichi Funayama as the new
Head Consul. Consul Funayama has worked for the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs for over 30 years
and has previously been posted in Thailand and
in the U.S. cities of Houston, New Orleans and
Nashville. Although he and his wife have only
been in Alaska for a few months, they already
love Alaska. Welcome Consul Funayama!
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Prime Minister's Visit
to the United States
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| Prime Minister Noda and
President Obama (Cabinet Secretariat, Cabinet
Public Relations
Office) |
-Cabinet Secretariat,
Cabinet Public Relations
Office
May
1, 2012
On
April 29 (local time), Prime Minister Yoshihiko
Noda visited Washington D.C., the United
States.
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After
having talks with the members of the U.S. rescue
team and the family of Ms. Taylor Anderson, the
Prime Minister attended the gathering of
appreciation hosted by the Ambassador of Japan
to the United States, Mr. Ichiro Fujisaki.
On April 30 (local time), Prime
Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who is visiting
Washington D.C., the United States, offered a
flower at the Tomb of the Unknowns and Section
60 (the burial ground for those who lost their
lives during duty in Iraq and Afghanistan) of
the Arlington National Cemetery.
Following this, the Prime Minister
held talks with Mr. Barack Obama, President of
the United States, and held a joint press
conference.
Later, the Prime Minister received a
courtesy call from the Administrator of NASA,
Mr. Charles Bolden, and Japanese astronauts.
In the evening, the Prime Minister
attended the reception hosted by the Secretary
of State of the United States, Ms. Hillary
Clinton.
Read the documents from the
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G8 Summitt
2012:
Camp David
Declaration
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| Heads of State at the G8
Summit 2012 (Cabinet Public Relations Office
photo) |
Camp
David, Maryland
May
19th, 2012
Preamble
1. We, the
leaders of the Group of Eight, met at Camp David
on May 18 and 19, 2012 to address major global
economic and political challenges.
The Global
Economy
2. Our
imperative is to promote growth and jobs.
3. The
global economic recovery shows signs of promise,
by
significant headwinds persist.
4.
Against this background, we commit to take all
necessary steps to strengthen and reinvigorate
our economies and combat fiscal stresses,
recgonizing that the right measures are not the
same for each of us.
5. We
welcome the ongoing discussion in Europe on how
to generate growth, while maintaining firim
commitment to implement fiscal consolidation to
be assessed on a structural basis. We agree
to on the importance of a strong and
cohesive Eurozone for global stability and
recovery, and we...
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"Around the World
Embassy Tour" 2012 a Huge
Success
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| Guests view cultural arts
and artifacts at the Embassy of
Japan |
-Embassy of
Japan
Washingtonians
don't need 80 days to go around the world; they
only need one! The Embassy of Japan was thrilled
to welcome over 4,600 people through its doors
as part of this year's "Around the World Embassy
Tour," an event organized by Cultural Tourism DC
as part of the month long "Passport DC"
festivities. Visitors sampled green tea, learned
about Japanese culture and technology -
including the forthcoming maglev train that
Japan Railways is developing - and watched
demonstrations of kendo martial arts. Guests
even got to "meet and greet" Ambassador
Fujisaki, saying hello and having their picture
taken with him.
There's more fun to come at next
year's Around the World Embassy Tour, so we hope
to see you in
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Composing a Bigger
Pricture:
Music, Art, and the
Embassy Adoption Program
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Ambassador and Mrs. Fujisaki look on as
Thomson Elementary School students draw pictures
and write messages for children in Japan
affected by the tsunami.
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-Susan Laszewski,
Embassy of
Japan
February 21, 2012
The
kugo elicits gleeful exclamations of
"cool!" from the group of Thomson Elementary
School students sitting in the school's
multi-purpose "Cafeterium" to watch a group
called Music From Japan introduce some of the
instruments of gagaku, a traditional
Japanese court music. So far, the students have
become acquainted with the sho, a
phoenix-shaped wind instrument that can play up
to six chords at once, the kazoo-like sound of
the double reed hichiriki, and several
other instruments. But the kugo gets
the most enthusiastic reception so far. Unlike
its familiar western cousin, the harp, the
kugo has silk strings. The instrument
was nearly lost in time but several were
recently discovered in the Imperial Treasury and
are now being restored.
The
Thomson Elementary School students are being
treated to this visit from Music From Japan as
part of the Embassy Adoption Program, a
collaboration of the Washington Performing Arts
Society and DC Public Schools that has been
pairing 5th and 6th grade classes with Embassies
in D.C. since 1974.
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Road to Recovery
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| Normalicy returns to the
city of Sendai in Miyagi (© City of
Sendai) |
-Government of
Japan
March
1, 2012
One year after the Great East Japan
Earthquake and subsequent tsunami,
reconstruction in the Tohoku region is well
under way. The government of Japan has recently
released "Road to Recovery," a comprehensive,
illustrated report covering the state of
recovery efforts - from the current situation of
evacuees to up-to-date radiation levels
following the problems at the affected Fukushima
Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
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With
Resolve towards Reconstruction
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| Nature springs back from
disaster. | A year has
passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Last week, in his blog, the Prime Minister
shared his thoughts on the past year and where
the nation stands now.
-Prime Minister Yoshihiko
Noda
March
5, 2012
Soon, a year will have passed since
that day of March 11.
While the experience of each
individual may differ greatly, I believe that
each citizen had an unprecedentedly "intense"
time over the past year. How did each of us
spend our time leading up to that day, how did
we spend the time afterwards, and how are we
living now? I imagine that every one of us has
various thoughts coming and going in our
minds.
On this occasion, I very much hope to
have as many people as possible first of all
turn their thoughts to...
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