We have three great speakers coming up in the next 45 days: Ken Munekata in a Harvard Club speaker dinner next week and
TWO YALIES (in fact, both of Silliman College - http://www.sillimancollege.org/ ) Rochelle KOPP and Robert FELDMAN, who will be speaking to us on October 10th and October 30th, respectively. As usual, please follow the instructions below to reserve your seats.
If you know any Yalies who have recently arrived in Japan, please forward this e-mail on to them and ask them to drop Engin an e-mail at engin.yenidunya@aya.yale.edu so we can get them on the mailing list.
Thanks to TWO BEN'S - Ben Seiver and Ben Karp - for arranging these two events.
We look forward to seeing many of you in our '06-'07 season kick-off events in October!
Best regards, Yale Club of Japan
1. Sept. 19th: Ken Munekata, President of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan - Harvard Club event 2. Oct. 10th - ROCHELLE KOPP '86 returns for Part II of her April 10th lecture on CROSS-CULTURAL CONFLICTS 3. Oct. 30th - ROBERT FELDMAN (SM '75), Japan Chief Economist at Morgan Stanley
1. Sept 19 - Talk by Ken Munekata, President of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan
The Harvard Club of Japan would like to invite Princeton and Yale Club members to join them as they kick off their 2006-7 season with a talk by Ken Munekata, President of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan at Tokyo American Club at 7pm on Tuesday, September 19th. (The doors will be open at 6:30pm.)
Ken Munekata, President of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, will speak on "Observations About Japanese Pop Culture ". They are even hoping they might get to see a few scenes from some of Sony Pictures' pictures!
The fee for the event is 7,000 yen. Please reserve by Friday, September 15th by e-mail to veritas@fa.catv-yokohama.ne.jp or by fax to 03-5727-1396.
2. Oct. 10th - ROCHELLE KOPP (SM '86) returns for Part II of her April 10th lecture on CROSS-CULTURAL CONFLICTS
Rochelle Kopp, Yale '86 , is a Tokyo-based cross cultural consultant, will talks on how Japanese organizations operate and where conflicts often arise with Americans and other Westerners .
Date: Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Place: Foreign Correspondents' Club, 100-0006 Tokyo-to Chiyoda-ku Yurakucho 1-7-1 Yurakucho Denki North Building 20F The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
tel: +81-3-3211-3161 (The A3 exit at Hibiya station comes up in the basement of the club.)
Topic: Risk and Decision-Making in Japan Part 2
Cross-cultural consultant Rochelle Kopp, Silliman '86, will once again share her insights into how Japanese organizations operate. In her April 10th lecture, Rochelle explained how c ultural attitudes toward risk and decision-making affect all aspects of how business and politics happen in Japan. She described the historical origins of these attitudes, and how they play an important role today. She contrasted Japanese with American attitudes, and show ed how these differences lead to misunderstandings when Americans and Japanese work together .
Knowing about these differences is just the first step. Doing something about it is the second step. But what should we do? Please attend this lecture to find out!
RSVP: Please respond to Takahashi Ayumi at takahasiay@aig.co.jp <mailto:takahasiay@aig.co.jp+ > Questions? please call 03/ 5637 3257 Space is limited so please respond early!
Price: 4000 yen payable in cash at the door.
This should be interesting to anyone living in Japan, particularly those who manage or work in a multi-cultural environment.
Rochelle is one of our more popular speakers and her last event sold out early. Rochelle's hourly billing rate is multiples of our walk-in price. Don't miss out!
Kind regards, Ben Seiver Yale ' 77
3. Oct. 30th - Robert Feldman (SM '75), Japan Chief Economist at Morgan Stanley
Media authority and Morgan Stanley Japan Chief Economist Robert Feldman, Silliman College '75, brings to the Yale Club of Japan his most recent insights into Japanese business trends and their international context. The event will take place October 30th at 19:00 at the FCCJ and Robert will present for our benefit as-yet-unpublished material.
In addition to his duties as chief economist for Japan, Feldman is Co-Head of Japan Equity Research.
From his official biography:
As part of Morgan Stanley's global economics team, Feldman is responsible for forecasting the Japanese economy and interest rates. He is a regular commentator on World Business Satellite, the nightly business program of TV Tokyo.
Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1998, Robert was the chief economist for Japan for Salomon Brothers from 1990-97. He worked for the International Monetary Fund from 1983-89, in the Asian, European, and Research Departments.
Robert has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he concentrated on international finance and development.
At Yale he took BAs in both Economics and in Japanese Studies, graduating P hi Beta K appa, summa cum laude. Before he entered graduate school, he worked at both the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Chase Manhattan Bank.
Robert has published four books, Japanese Financial Markets: Deficits, Dilemmas, and Deregulation (MIT Press, 1986), Nihon no Suijaku ("The Weakening of Japan", Toyo Keizai 1996, in Japanese) and Nihon no Saiki ("Starting Over", Toyo Keizai 2001, in Japanese), and Kozo kaikaku no saki wo yomu ("Beyond Structural Reform", Toyo Keizai 2005, in Japanese). A fluent speaker of Japanese, he has also translated four books from Japanese to English, including Economic Growth in Prewar Japan (by Takafusa Nakamura, Yale U. Press).
Born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Robert first came to Japan in 1970, as an exchange student, spending a year in Nagoya. He subsequently spent study years at both the Nomura Research Institute (1973-74), and at the Bank of Japan (1981-82).
RSVP: Please respond to Takahashi Ayumi at takahasiay@aig.co.jp <mailto:takahasiay@aig.co.jp+ > Questions? please call 03/ 5637 3257 Space is limited so please respond early!