Unless specified, names of people in photographs begin from
the left hand side
| Event: |
Tokyo City Promotion Seminar |
| Venue: |
The Grace Hotel |
| Date: |
November 1 |
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government held a tourism seminar in Sydney in conjunction with Japanese airlines, hotels and travel agencies. Members of the Australian travel industry were invited to the seminar, which was designed to increase the number of foreign visitors to Tokyo.
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| Daisuke Mizukoshi (Pitt Travel), Sarah Ann (Sydney Attractions Group), Ike Ikeda (Travel & Travel), Hirobumi Kano (Phiten Australia) |
Kazunori Yamaguchi (JAL Sydney), Nobuhito Hobo (Consul-General of Japan in Sydney), Takashi Nishimura (Consulate General of Japan in Sydney) |
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| Atsushi Koike (Kintetsu International), Akiko Nakaone (Tokyo Metropolitan Government Tourism), Kazuhisa Yamaguchi (Tokyo vice governor), Jotaro Horiuchi (JNTO), Kenji Ikeda (CLAIR) |
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| Event: |
Seminar on Exchange and Interest Rate,The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd |
| Venue: |
The American Club |
| Date: |
January 30 |
Representatives of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, head of treasury, Susumu Kanazawa and Takumi Funasako of Product Development Asia (Singapore), gave an insightful lecture about the stock exchange and interest rates at The American Club in Sydney. The participants gathered after the lecture and were able to further discuss and deepen their knowledge on the topic.
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| Susumu Kanazawa presenting his insight on the future of exchange and interest rates. |
Masao Fujita (NTT Australia), Yasuhide Fukatsu (Mitsui & Co. Australia), Takashi Sugita (Mitsubishi Material), Kouhei Tsushima (Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ) |
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| Peter Shim (Marubeni), Renko Ishizaki (Marubeni), Kimie Okazaki (Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ) |
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| Event: |
Book launch "Towards a New Vision: Australia and Japan Across Time" |
| Venue: |
Japan Foundation Gallery |
| Date: |
November 20 |
The Japanese Consulate in Sydney launched the latest work by Professor Neville Meaney of the Department of History, University of Sydney. This is a revised and expanded edition of Professor Meaney"s "Towards a New Vision: Australia and Japan Through 100 Years", published in 1999.
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| The Honourable James Spigelman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW, Professor Neville Meaney (University of Sydney), Nobuhito Hobo (Consul-General of Japan in Sydney) |
Yoshiyuki Ueno (Japan Foundation),
Mitsuo Shoji (ceramic artist) and Nobuhito Hobo
(Consul-General of Japan in Sydney) |
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| Associate Professor Chihoro Kinoshita-Thomson (University of NSW), Kuniko Nakano (Ikebana International Sydney), Haruko Asakura (Australian Catholic University) |
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| Event: |
Reception for Emperor"s birthday |
| Venue: |
Official residence of Japan's Consul-General in Sydney |
| Date: |
December 5 |
Celebrations in honour of the Emperor"s birthday (December 23) were held at the official residence of Japan's Consul-General in Sydney. Representatives of the Japanese community and prominent members of local political, economic and cultural circles with close ties to Japan attended.
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| Hirofumi Konomi (Japan Foundation), Yoshimi Chiba (Global Family), Akira Ogata (Film director), Yoshiyuki Ueno (Japan Foundation) |
Steven Blanks, Yasuhiro Shinmi (Sydney Japanese School), Stephanie Blanks
and Shinichi Isobe (Sydney Japanese School) |
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| Associate Professor Neville Meaney and Dr James Curran (University of Sydney) |
Vit Kolar (Consul-General of Czech Republic in Sydney) with his wife Olga and Nobuhito Hobo (Consul-General of Japan in Sydney) |
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