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Japan
Summer Festival a great
success!
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Tanabata tree. |
On July 7th the Japan Summer
Festival was held at Anchorage's Sand Lake
Elementary School.
The festival was a great
success!
Throughout the day, many people
came to enjoy the festivities.
Guests enjoyed the festival's
good food, intersting booth displays, martial arts
presentations, great music and good company.
A local couple won the
Festival's big raffel prize of two round-trip
airline tickets to Japan!
We hope that you can join us
next year. |
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Contact
Us!
Email:
cjak4@se.mofa.go.jp
Telephone:
(907)
562-8424
Fax:
(907)
562-8434 |
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Prime
Minister Noda Attends the G20 Los Cabos
Summit
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| The G20 leaders (Prime
Minister Noda: 2nd row, 3rd from right) (Cabinet
Secretariat, Cabinet Public Relations
Office) |
-Cabinet
Secretariat,
Cabinet Public Relations
Office
June
19, 2012
On
June 17 (local time), Prime Minister Yoshihiko
Noda visited Los Cabos, the United Mexican
States, to attend the G20 Los Cabos Summit.
Prime
Minister Noda met with Mr. Felipe Calderon
Hinojosa, President of Mexico.
On
June 18 (local time), Prime Minister Yoshihiko
Noda, who is visiting Mexico, attended the G20
Los Cabos Summit.
In
the morning, Prime Minister Noda held talks
respectively with Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,
President of the Republic of Indonesia, and Mr.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the
Russian Federation.
In
the afternoon, the Prime Minister attended the
first working session on the world economy and
the G20 leaders' working dinner.
Read the
documents |
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Speech by Foreign Minister
Gemba at the UN Conference on Sustainable
Development
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Foreign Minister Gemba at the UN Conference
(MOFA) |
-Foreign Minister Koichiro
Gemba
United Nations Conference
on
Sustainable Development (Rio + 20)
June
20, 2012
Over
15 months have now passed since the Great East
Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. Japan is
steadily advancing along the path of
reconstruction. In attending the largest
international conference being held this year, I
would like to take this opportunity, on behalf
of the Japanese people, to express our gratitude
for the generous and warm support and
encouragement we received from all over the
world.
The
theme of Rio+20 has a special significance for
Japan, in the wake of this unprecedented
catastrophe. The Japanese
people...
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A Cabinet Reshuffle, and
Looking to the Future
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| Prime Minister Noda attends
a meeting with the newly reshuffled Cabinet.
(Cabinet Public Relations
Office) |
-Prime
Minister
Yoshihiko
Noda
June
6, 2012
....
I
believe that the appointment attracting the most
interest in this lineup is my asking Prof.
Satoshi Morimoto to serve as Minister of
Defense. Prof. Morimoto is one of Japan's
leading authorities in the field of national
security, and I firmly believe he will carry out
the responsibilities of his office
competently.
In
fact, in 1952...
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Japan: Fascinating
Diversity
-Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
The
people of Japan are continuing their tireless
reconstruction efforts following the Great East
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011,
which devastated the Tohoku region of
northeastern Japan.
In
this short five-episode film, five
presenters-well-known foreign specialists with
extensive knowledge and insight on Japan-guide
viewers to intriguing destinations, introducing
Japan's fascinating culture and heritage along
the way. They also take viewers to the Tohoku
region, which shows every sign of recovery.
The
film's goal is to help viewers around the globe
rediscover the appeal of Japan.
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Bursts of
Innovation:
The History of
Japanese Fireworks
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Fireworks over the torii, or shrine gate,
in Miyajima. (©
JNTO) |
-Susan
Laszewski
Embassy of Japan
Japan
is known for its flashy futuristic technology.
But robotic limbs, invisibility cloaks and mind-reading robots are
just the latest in a long tradition of Japanese
innovation. Summer is the perfect time of year
to appreciate a less futuristic - but flashier -
representative of Japan's technological
talents.
Around
the turn of the 17th century, fireworks were
introduced to Japan as an upper class form of
entertainment for feudal lords and wealthy
merchants. By the 18th century they had made
their way to the masses, particularly in Tokyo,
and fireworks artisans began to emerge.
In
1733...
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