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CWAJ Monthly Luncheon Speakers
2010  
May Scholarship Luncheon, scholarship recipient, Katherine Brooks  
April Azby Brown - Just Enough - Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan  
March YASUYUKI NAMBU, Group CEO and President, Pasona, Inc.  
February The History of the Blues- Steve Gardner, Mississippi Bluesman
  
January SAYUKI – First Western Geisha in Japan
2009  
December 60th Anniversary 2009 December Luncheon
November Alistair Douglas, Tuna – An Insider’s View

October Print Show luncheon: Kiyoko SAWATARI, Director of Yokohama Civic Art Gallery - Oliver Statler, his relationship with CWAJ and the process of translating his work. 
September Professor Hiroshi Shimizu of Keio University -
The Engineer’s Answer to Global Warming: Why It Is No Longer an Issue

June Hiroe Makiyama, Diet Member House of Councillors -
Kanagawa Representative
May  
April Constantin von Brandenstein -
My great-great-grandfather, Dr. Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796-1866)

March Virginia Anami -
Following the Tracks of Ennin’s 9th Century Journey to China
February Allan West - Traditional Japanese painter
January Katsuji Iwahashi, a 4th generation Shinto priest -
The Ritual Re-building of Ise Jingu
2008  
December Machiko Ozawa - a Violin Concert
November Alex Bennett - The Wonderful World of Kendo
October Print Show luncheon:
History of CWAJ Print Show-Noriko Yagi and Motoko Inoue
September Concert by 'Miraika'
June  
May Scholarship luncheon:
Meet CWAJ’s 2008 scholars and Enjoy ‘Bel Canto’ too!

April Becoming bilingual-a contribution to global understanding, with educational consultant Opal Dunn.

March  
February  
January Ayatsuri sanbaso, Japanese traditional dance performed in celebration of the new year
2007  
December St. Mary’s International School Bell Choir
November Barbara Rosasco, KASUMISOU -
The Kasumisou Foundation programs have provided assistance to thousands of families and children. Please join us to hear about Barbara's remarkable work in Cambodia.
October Print Show kick-off
September WADAIKOSO welcomes you back with their fiery beat
June Shunmyo Masuno -- Zen priest, landscape architect, professor
May Scholarship luncheon: 35 Years of Scholarships – and still going strong! A celebration of our scholars past and present.
April Robert Precht - Starting in 2009, Japan will be instituting a new jury system called Saiban-in. Unfamiliar to many Japanese, we are pleased to have Mr. Precht explain the this new system and how it will effect the ways of the courts.
 
March Ann Yonemura is one of the leading experts on Japanese art today. She led us on a virtual tour of the exquisite collections of Japanese art in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, where she is Senior Associate Curator.
February Hisanari ISOMURA was a “household figure” on the Japanese news scene. During his distinguished career with NHK (the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation), Isomura-san worked first as a correspondent, then anchorman and bureau head and ultimately General Managing Director of the Tokyo Head Office of NHK. He spoke to us  on the topic of the changing role of women in French and Japanese societies.
January For the January luncheon, fellow CWAJ members (with the assistance of some equally talented friends) organized a lecture concert which started with nagauta, the traditional music that accompanies Japanese Buyou dancing. They introduced the yokobue (transverse bamboo flute) and the Ko-tsuzumi (small hand drum), both core instruments in the nagauta hayashi.