April 3 , 2007 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Summary: Calvin College will host the Consul General of Japan for Michigan
and Ohio on April 10 for a 5:30 pm talk on campus.
Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/consul-general.htm
Calvin College will host an important Japanese visitor on April 10.
The Honorable Tamotsu Shinotsuka, Consul General of Japan for Michigan and
Ohio, is making his first trip to west Michigan that week with talks slated for
Western Michigan University and Calvin College.
After meeting with Grand Rapids business and community leaders earlier in the
day, Shinotsuka will speak at 5:30 pm in the Meeter Center Lecture Hall at
Calvin on "United States-Japan Relations and East Asia."
His visit is being sponsored by the Japan-America Society of West Michigan and
both the Calvin Asian Studies program and the political science department.
Calvin's Dan Bays directs the college's Asian Studies program and says the
talk by Shinotsuka will be timely.
"Japan has a new prime minister," says Bays, "Shinzo Abe, who is quite
different than the previous Prime Minister Koizumi. Already several issues have
recently arisen with the potential to impact our relationship with Japan. To
hear from the Consul General will be an important opportunity for our
community."
At Calvin he will find a school with a keen interest in Asia. Some 500
students a year now are enrolled in Asian Studies at Calvin and in recent years
Calvin has expanded its Asian Studies in numerous ways.
Contact Dan Bays at 616-526-6992 or dbays@calvin.edu
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