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SUMMARY:2024 Illinois Japan Bowl
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\nThe Japan America Society of Chicago is excited to host our 10th Annual 2024 Illinois Japan Bowl\, to be held on Saturday\, March 2\, 2024 at North Central College from 10:00 – 2:30 pm. The Illinois Japan Bowl is an academic competition which covers a wide range of topics that tests high school students who are studying the Japanese language across the state of Illinois. The competition tests not only their knowledge of the language\, but also their understanding of traditional and modern Japan. \n\nThe below are open to the public. Level 2\, 3 & 4 competitions will be closed to the public. Only participating students and chaperones will be allowed in the competition rooms.\n10:00-10:30 am – Opening Ceremony (Free)\n1:10-1:30 pm – Cultural Performance (Free)\n1:30-2:30 pm – Closing Ceremony (Free)\nOpening Ceremony/Cultural Performance/Closing Ceremony\n\n\nSpecial thanks to our sponsors:  \n     \n\n  \n\nSpecial thanks with support from:  \n\n\nSpecial thanks to our venue sponsor: 
URL:https://jaschicago.org/event/2024-illinois-japan-bowl/
LOCATION:North Central College (Wentz Science Center)\, 131 S. Loomis\, 2nd Floor\, Naperville\, IL\, 131 S. Loomis\, Naperville\, IL\, United States
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SUMMARY:Uka Sake
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nDelicious as well as inspiring\, Uka saké begins as organic heirloom rice on the Koda family farm in the San Joaquin Valley\, California\, before being brewed into saké at the Ninki Shuzō brewery in Fukushima. Owner Ross Koda created Uka saké to honor his grandfather’s vision and strengthen US-Japanese ties. Join us to learn about this Japanese-American family’s journey of sake making as well as how sake has evolved in the U.S. \nAbout the Speakers\nRoss Koda \nAs the third-generation president of Koda Farms in South Dos Palos\, California\, Ross Koda considers strengthening the cultural relationships between Japan and the USA a cornerstone of his life’s work. At Koda Farms\, he blends over 90 years of Japanese-American rice farming tradition with modern\, innovative\, organic farming methods. To further add to his family’s legacy in rice\, Ross also serves as the CEO & Founder of Omurasaki Beverage Company. In this role\, he imports back to the USA his own elegant line of organic junmai daiginjo known as Uka Sake\, which is brewed in Fukushima\, Japan from the organic rice grown at Koda Farms. \nMichael John Simkin \nMichael John Simkin is a certified Level III Saké Educator for the Wine & Spirit Education Trust \n(WSET)\, an organization for whom he was instrumental in adding saké to the curriculum. With 20 years of experience in the sake industry\, Michael has taught sake courses to distributors’ and importers’ sales teams across the USA. He has judged the sake portion at the International Wine Challenge (IWC) in London\, and most recently\, he judged the Fine Sake Awards competition in Tokyo in 2023.
URL:https://jaschicago.org/event/uka-sake/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Event
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SUMMARY:Tour of Radical Clay with Exhibition Curator\, Janice Katz
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nJoin Janice Katz as she guides us through the exhibition of contemporary Japanese ceramics by thirty-six women artists. As a group\, these artists are far less interested in and bound by tradition than many contemporary ceramicists at work in Japan. This ability to innovate\, to invent new ways of working with clay and glaze\, and the skill of each artist to carve out their own style and pioneering technique\, is what makes these works both awe-inspiring and unusual. \nAbout the Speaker\nJanice Katz is the Roger L. Weston Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been with the museum for over 20 years where she curates quarterly exhibitions of Japanese prints. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. Her research focuses on paintings from the Edo period (1615-1868) and the history of art collecting in Japan. Her publications include Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum\, Oxford (2003)\, and Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum (2009)\, an exhibition which traveled from Chicago to St. Louis and San Francisco. Her 2018 exhibition at the Art Institute\, Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection\, and its accompanying catalogue\, focused on ukiyo-e paintings of the 17th through 20th centuries.
URL:https://jaschicago.org/event/tour-of-radical-clay-with-exhibition-curator-janice-katz/
LOCATION:Art Institute of Chicago\, 111 S Michigan Avenue\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
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SUMMARY:What Japanese Baseball Brings to the World
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nJapan’s baseball and its culture\, because of its existence outside of MLB’s mainstream\, is a huge potential source of innovation and evolution for the baseball world. \nThings being done differently in Japan\, and thought of differently\, creates the opportunity for people to ask the vital question\, “Why do we do it like this when they do it like that?” – a question any baseball establishment\, whether it’s in Japan or MLB\, absolutely hates to hear\, because they are closed systems organized around doctrines considered to be the pinnacle of baseball knowledge. \nNippon Professional Baseball’s independence creates the possibility that it could surpass MLB as home of the world’s highest quality baseball\, but that won’t happen until Japan’s owners reflect on the inherent strength of their position and set the highest goals for themselves in the same way Samurai Japan has done. \nAbout the Speaker\nA native of the San Francisco Bay Area\, I fell in love with America’s Giants\, and after graduating with a history degree specializing in Japan from the University of California Santa Cruz\, I found a job in Japan to see what I could learn firsthand. \nWhat I learned was baseball\, starting from the vastly more intricate and detailed statistical reports of every day’s pro games and eventually writing about it\, publishing the English languages first analytical guides to Japanese pro ball from 1994 to 1997 – work that led to my being hired by the English language newspaper\, “The Daily Yomiuri” in 1998. \nSince 2012\, I moved to one of Japan’s two national press agencies\, “Kyodo News\,” where I expect to work until I reach mandatory retirement age ahead of the 2025 season. \nThrough it all\, I have tried to make sense of how and why things are done here\, in MLB and in other countries\, and try to understand individuals’ stories within those contexts.
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LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Matcha
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nLearn and sip the most valuable tea of the world. Chicago Teahouse tea sommelier will share her gained experience in Japan when she grounded her own matcha. The class will cover history\, cultivation\, and matcha beneficial ingredients. \nEvent includes a one-hour guided presentation\, 4 loose leaf tea samples\, light snacks and a 20% promotion on teas after the event. \nAbout the Speaker\nAgnieszka was first introduced to tea growing up in Poland\, where tea is a social and cultural beverage. She found a deep connection with the world of tea and was inspired by the quote “You will never have to work a day in your life if you do something you’re passionate about”. Later on\, Agnieszka graduated from DePaul and was hired as Director of Finance at TeaGschwendner\, a German premium loose leaf tea company. As her knowledge and love for tea blossomed\, Agnieszka found her calling and became a certified Tea Sommelier in 2017.
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LOCATION:Chicago Tea House\, 1160 N. State Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60610\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Trans-Atlantic Relationship and Linkages to the Indo-Pacific
DESCRIPTION:About the Speakers\nYuka Koshino is a researcher on foreign relations and security\, defence and technology policy with a focus on Japan and US alliances in the Indo-Pacific region. As well as serving as an Associate Fellow at the IISS\, she is an International Strategy Forum Fellow at Schmidt Futures and a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission. \nYuka was a member of the IISS research team between 2020 and 2023\, serving as Research Fellow for Security and Technology Policy (2022–23) and Research Fellow for Japanese Security and Defence Policy (2020–21). She is the co-author of Japan’s Effectiveness as a Geo-Economic Actor: Navigating Great-Power Competition (Routledge\, 2022) and co-editor of Japan and the IISS: Connecting Western and Japanese Strategic Thought from the Cold War to the War on Ukraine (Routledge\, 2023). \nPrior to joining the IISS\, Yuka conducted research for the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She also provided policy and business analysis on Asia’s high-tech and defence industries at the Avascent Group and the Asia Group in Washington DC. \nShe previously reported and published news stories on Japanese political\, economic and business affairs for the Wall Street Journal\, Economist and Japan Times. She graduated from Keio University in 2016 with a BA in law and received an MA in Asian studies from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. \nBonnie S. Glaser is managing director of GMF’s Indo-Pacific program. She is also a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney\, Australia\, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. She is a co-author of US-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis (Brookings Press\, April 2023). She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and US policy for more than three decades. \nFrom 2008 to mid-2015\, she was a senior adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies\, and from 2003 to 2008\, she was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS\, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices\, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals\, including the Washington Quarterly\, China Quarterly\, Asian Survey\, International Security\, Contemporary Southeast Asia\, American Foreign Policy Interests\, Far Eastern Economic Review\, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis\, as well as in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal and in various edited volumes on Asian security. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997. Ms. \nGlaser received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. \nEmma Chanlett-Avery is Deputy Director of the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Washington\, DC office and the Director for Political-Security Affairs. Prior to this post\, she served for 20 years as a Specialist in Asian Affairs at the Congressional Research Service\, where she focused on U.S. relations with Japan\, the Korean Peninsula\, Thailand\, and Singapore\, with an emphasis on security issues and alliances. In 2023\, she served as a Congressional Fellow on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee\, assisting the Chairman with drafting Asia policy legislation and preparing for hearings. Ms. Chanlett-Avery was a Presidential Management Fellow\, with rotations in the State Department on the Korea Desk and at the Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group in Bangkok\, Thailand. She also worked in the Office of Policy Planning as a Harold Rosenthal Fellow. She is a member of the Mansfield Foundation U.S.–Japan Network for the Future and a Mansfield-Luce Asia Network Scholar. In 2016\, she received the Kato Prize\, awarded by Washington think tanks for strengthening the U.S.-Japan alliance. She serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Association of Japan America Societies\, Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Japan America Society. \nof Washington DC\, and as a Trustee of International Student Conferences\, Inc. Ms. Chanlett-Avery received an M.A. in international security policy from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and her B.A. in Russian Studies from Amherst College. \nThis event is made possible with support from:
URL:https://jaschicago.org/event/the-trans-atlantic-relationship-and-linkages-to-the-indo-pacific/
LOCATION:Union League Club of Chicago\, : 65 W Jackson Blvd\, Chicago\, IL\, 60604\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT Osaka Dinner at TenGoku Aburiya
DESCRIPTION:Tickets SOLD OUT\nAbout the Event\nJapan’s second largest city\, Osaka is known for its unique culinary culture. Chef Yuki Funakoshi\, a native of Osaka\, will curate a menu that features various signature dishes from Osaka such as Takoyaki\, Oshizushi\, and Kushiage with pork belly\, shrimp\, oyster mushroom. The menu also includes appetizers: Zuke Tuna\, Japanese Potato Salad\, Chicken Karaage and Sakamushi as well as Nigiri-zushi: akami\, hamachi\, and hotate. To enhance the meal\, a complimentary glass of champagne will be provided\, as well as a brief presentation on the beauty of Osaka based cuisine by Chef Funakoshi. \nClick to Here for the Menu in PDF \nAbout the Speaker\nYuki Funakoshi is a chef with 16 years of experience in Japanese cuisine in Chicago. Born and raised in Chicago’s sister city\, Osaka\, Japan\, he came to Chicago as a highschooler when his mother worked for the City of Osaka government. He fell in love with Chicago and decided to stay behind. Prior to TenGoku Aburiya\, he worked at restaurants including Tsuki\, Ai and Ringo. Recently\, he is excited to showcase his native Osaka foods such as Kushiage and Oshizushi.
URL:https://jaschicago.org/event/osaka-dinner-at-tengoku-aburiya/
LOCATION:651 W Washington Blvd Chicago\, 651 W Washington Blvd. #101A\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
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