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Building on 50 years of friendship. The third oldest "Sister City" relationship, in 2007 and 2008 we celebrated our 50th Anniversary. You may find helpful information about this program and the relationships that have, are and will exist between citizens of the two areas. click on the calendar icon for event schedules
General meeting: We usually end each meeting with a video. In January it was a Japanese language New Year's program which featured a cooking program clip with the wife of the Prime Minister and a 200,000 piece domino display with a New Year's them. It took several minutes for the dominos to fall. Not a member yet? Want to be? Click "Join Us!" at the left and join us at this meeting which sets up our new Board members and the direction for next year's activities. Want receive email notices of activities? Click HERE. Our YouTube, Channels: sjokayama50yr. We are in the process of moving them to a new channel, sanjoseokayama Did You Know? Comments by Bob Green, member and Secretary. Oops! The KTSF, channel 26 information below is correct, but due to a change in broadcasting signal from Japan from analog to digital on Dec. 6, the programming is currently off-air. Theywere planing to start for real in February. You can watch the broadcasts now on the Internet. At this time, we don't know if Comcast will carry this station or not. If you have a digital television receiver or tuner, you may be able to watch the new NHK World (Japanese Broadcasting) English channel that is on San Francisco's KTSF sub channel 2 (Channel 26.2). The new network is named JIBTV (Japan International Broadcasting). There are a number of interesting programs with English audio. For example, there are some of the short videos that are contained in the NHK World's Begin Japanology, newer versions of "Out and About" and some programming in Tokyo Eye, about Tokyo life. Also there is hourly English language news and business news. I recently saw an awsome program about the influence of Japanese manga portraying music topics recently. And a story about the Japanese hot springs resort (onsen) that was distroyed by a major earthquake in Niigata prefecture a while back and how other resort owners were banding together to restore their industry. I can also recommend some of the other programming such as the Professionals, an interesting series produced originally for the Japanese market as well as Today's Close-up, also orignally a Japanese program discussing many things about Japanese business, science, politics ... issues that are important in Japan now. If you don't have a TV or if it is not carried on your cable or satellite, you can watch live for free at their web site:
On the calendar: Plan for the yearly activities Vancouer Winter Olympics. We see that Japan is fielding some strong figure skaters this year. (Starting February 12) Trip to Japan for High School aged attendees (register now) (July) Bay Area is the site of the 2010 America-Japan Grassroots Summit. Have an appropriate item to go on the calendar? Contact the Secretary to get it put up. Also note the Japanese and US holidays are flagged on the calendar.
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Happy New Year On behalf of the directors of the Alert: Our Web site was attacked in December by unknown persons. Not a nice Christmas present! We believe that the hosting company caught the attack and no services were affected. However, should you have some unexpected pop-up page occur when viewing this site, or when receiving email from this site, Thanks to San Jose's Notre Dame HS student and member Rebecca Gill for giving us a good review of her overseas project with us. We will post her presentation shortly. Features and News Japanese Consulate in Restoring the San José Japanese Friendship Garden Koi Ponds and Fish The park is nearing completion of the restoration of the two ponds and are planning on restoration of the fish. Join us in fund raising activities along this effort. LATEST SJ NEWSPAPER ARTICLE (5/22/09) [pdf 270KB]
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