Officers and Councilors
January 22 (Mon) (Annual General Meeting )
"The Lure of the Orient: Contemporary Western Representations of Japan"
Mr. Joshua Dale
February 13 (Tue)
"The Visit of the Iwakura Mission to Italy in 1873"
Dr. Shohko Iwakura
March 11 (Mon) (St. Anselm's Church Parish Hall)
"Monasticism on Mount Athos: Parallelisms with the Japanese Buddhist Tradition"
H.E. Mr. George Sioris
April 8 (Mon)
"Limiting Understandings: Appreciations of Urban Gardens in Contemporary Japan"
Dr. Thomas S. Hardy
May 13 (Mon)
"Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami: A Prewar Liberal Journalist's Struggle to Give Japan International Respectablility"
Dr. William D. Hoover
June 17 (Mon) (Mexican Embassy, 2-15-1 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100)
"Some Notes about the Family and the Famous House of Rodrigo de Vivero y Velasco in Mexico"
H.E. The Mexican Ambassador, Mr. Manuel Uribe Castaneda
September 9 (Mon)
"A Comparison Between Ono no Komachi and the 9th-Century Irish Poetess "The Old Woman of Beare""
Mrs. Eileen Kato
October 7 (Mon)
"Angkor and the Japanese Presence"
H.E. the Cambodian Ambassador, Mr. Truong Mealy
November 18 (Mon) (Swedish Embassy)
A Swedish botanist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828)
H.E. the Swedish Ambassador, Mr. Magnus Vahlquist
(Gather by 6:30 for the lecture starting at 7 PM. A reception follows given by Mr. and Mrs. Vahlquist)
December 16 (Mon)
"The Monastic Management Traditions of Muromachi Japan, and a transparency goal of governing they established, still operative in local "jichikai" and businesses today."
Dr. Richard Tabor Greene