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Dear Members,

We hope your Thanksgiving holiday was filled with family, festivities and of course food! Surprisingly the end of the semester is near. We wish you success on your upcoming finals, before that however we invite you to come and enjoy Japan Club’s last event of the semester: the End of Semester Party! Join us as we say goodbye to the semester with good food, interactive games, and great company. This event will be on December 4th in our usual room VC 10-165, we invite both new faces and old to end the semester with the Japan club family, hope to see you there! Feel free to check out our Facebook event page as well.

Earlier in the week feel free to join us as we cosponsor AIESEC’S Global Village. For those of you who may not know this is an annual cultural showcase which will feature speakers who have studied and worked abroad as well as cultural games and plenty of great food! Interested? Feel free to check out their event page and come through on Tuesday, December 2nd to the multipurpose room from 12:30-3:00 PM for this great event!

Event information:
Event # 1: End of Semester Party
Date: Thursday, December 4th
Time & Place: VC 10-165, 12:45-2:05 PM

Event #2: AIESEC Global Village
Date: Tuesday, December 2nd
Time & Place: Multipurpose Room, 12:30-3:00 PM

Best regards,

Amy Campos
Co-Secretary | Baruch Japan Club
Baruch College

Dear members,

Now that midterms are over it’s time to celebrate!  Come join us for a full two hours of food!  Join us this Thursday, November 20th, for Japan Club’s Food Day event!  Not only will we be serving up Japanese cuisine we’ll also be demonstrating how to make okonomiyaki.  This will be held during club hours in the usual clubroom, VC 10-165.  Feel free to check out the event page  and invite your friends!

Also this Thursday from 12:30 to 4 we will be cosponsoring Colleges against Cancer: Baruch College, at their Relay for Life Kickoff!  Join us and many other clubs in the second floor lobby as we try to raise money to help fight cancer! We will be making Choco pan (pandas out of bread and nutella and will be selling them for $0.50 a piece). Hope to see you there!

Event Information:

Event # 1: Food Day

Date: November 20th, 2014

Time & Place: 12:45-2:05 PM, VC-165

Event # 2: Relay for life Kick Off!

Date: November 20th, 2014

Time & Place: 12:30-4:00 PM, 2nd floor lobby

Best regards,

Jennafer Mukofsky

Co-Secretary | Baruch Japan Club

Baruch College

Dear Members,

Autumn is finally upon us meaning it is business earning season and time to find an internship.

In order to help students look into finding these very sought after positions, Japan Club will be holding it’s second business event, Mix It Up: Business Luncheon. This luncheon will provide students with the opportunity to meet with representatives from Deloitte, Disco International, Inc., and The Consulate General of Japan in New York. Also, although they are unable to attend, Mynavi will be helping to sponsor our event.

This event will be held on Thursday, November 13th in VC 5-165 from 12:45-2:05PM. This event’s dress code is business casual, and if you are not dressed appropriately you may be denied entrance. We will also be serving refreshments. If you have friends from outside Baruch who may be interested in attending, have them fill out this RSVP Form so that they may be added to our guest list and thus be allowed entrance into the school. Please note that we will close the RSVP form by Tuesday.

Later in the day feel free to join us as we cosponsor Vietnamese Student Association’s (VSA) biggest event of the year their Second Annual Paris by Night! Come out for a gala themed night that will showcase Vietnamese culture both through performances and Vietnamese cuisine! This event will be held in the multipurpose room on Thursday, November 13 from 6-9 PM. Hope to see you there!

Event Information:

Event # 1: Mix it up! Business Luncheon
Date: Thursday, November 13th
Time & Place: VC 5-165, 12:45-2:05

Event # 2: VSA’S Second Annual Paris by Night
Date: Thursday, November 13th
Time & Place: Multipurpose room, 6:00-9:00 PM

Best regards,

Amy Campos
Co-Secretary | Baruch Japan Club
Baruch College

Dear members,

Now that midterms are over, it’s time to celebrate!

Join us as we co-host a game day with Baruch’s Japanese Anime Asylum. Together we will be hosting a fun game of Jeopardy – Japanese Style. Bring your knowledge of Anime and Japanese pop culture to the table and show off what you know!

This event will be held on Thursday, November 6th in JAA’s clubroom 12-135 during club hours 12:45-2:05PM. Refreshments will be served. Please show up early for space is limited and we will only be welcoming 40 participants max before we close the door.

Event Information

Event: JAA + JC Game Day
Date: November 6th
Time & Place: 12-135, 12:45-2:05PM

Best regards,

Jennafer Mukofsky
Co-Secretary | Baruch Japan Club

The Japanese Studies at Queens College is hosting a talk on November 19th (please find the attached flyer). This is a rare opportunity for us to have Mr. Kitade, the author of “Visas of Life and the Epic Journey–how the Sugihara survivors reached Japan” here on our campus. We are possibly having an actual survivor joining us for this talk as well.

Thank you.

Mari

Mari Fujimoto, Ph.D.
Director of Japanese Studies
Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures
Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)
Office: King 113A
Email: [email protected]
Voice: 718-997-5579
Fax: 718-997-5577

Dear members,

Happy Halloween!

In honor of Halloween being on Friday, Japan Club will be hosting a movie day. We will be celebrating by screening Ju-on 2 (The Grudge 2), the original Japanese horror film! Join us for some good snacks and scares on Thursday, Oct. 30th in VC 10-165.

If you can’t make it to our event, feel free to join us as we cosponsor LGBT Historical Month’s Fright Night 8, a carnival themed Halloween party. There you can find carnival games, a costume contest, and much more! This event will be held Oct. 30th from 6-9PM in the multipurpose room. Hope to see you there!

Event Information
Event 1: Halloween Movie Day
Date: Thursday, Oct. 30th
Place & Time: 12:45-2:05PM, VC 10-165

Event 2: Fright Night 8
Date: Thursday, Oct. 30th
Place & Time: 6-9PM, Multipurpose Room

Best regards,

Amy Campos
Co-Secretary | Baruch Japan Club
Baruch College

Dear members,

Are midterms getting you down? Come celebrate an early Halloween with us as we hold our second Japanese Conversation Class (JCC)!

As you can imagine, the theme will be Halloween so be prepared for tons of candy. All levels of fluency are welcome! No prior knowledge of the language is needed.

All scares upstairs in our usual clubroom, VC 10-165, during club hours this Thursday, Oct. 23rd. Refreshments will be served! Be sure to invite your friends!

Event Information:
Event: JCC #2
Date: Thursday, Oct. 23rd
Time & Place: VC 10-165, 12:45-2:05pm

Best regards,

Jennafer Mukofsky
Co-Secretary | Baruch Japan Club
Baruch College

Dear members,

This week we will be starting off with our first business event of the semester!

Join us as representatives from the JET Program (Japanese English Teaching Program) present about their organization, answering any questions you may have.  We will be meeting Thursday, October 9th from 12:45pm to 2:05pm in VC 10-165.

Feel free to invite friends! Refreshments will be served but seats fill up fast so be sure to come early!

Event Information:

Event: JET Program

Date: Thursday, October 9th

Time & Place: VC 10-165, 12:45-2:05pm

Best regards,

Jennafer Mukofsky

Co-Secretary | Baruch Japan Club

Baruch College

Dear members,

We hope you all enjoyed the Welcome Party. As promised, this Thursday, Sept. 11^th, Baruch Japan Club will be hosting our first Japanese Conversation Class (JCC)!

Not sure what this is? JCC is an event dedicated to providing an environment where both beginners and native speakers can learn and converse in Japanese among peers, no experience needed! The main theme of this JCC will be “Describing People.”

Some activities will include playing the Japanese version of pin the tail on the donkey and drawing a person described in Japanese.  Anyone who is interested is welcome to join us!  This event will be held in our usual room VC 10-165 during club hours (12:45PM to 2:05PM).  Refreshments will be served.  Feel free to invite your friends to come!

Event Information

Event: Japanese Conversation Class

Date: Thursday, Sept. 11th

Place & Time: 12:45-2:05PM at VC 10-165

Best regards,

Jennafer Mukofsky

Co-Secretary | Baruch Japan Club

Dear Members,

Baruch Japan Club would like to extend a warm welcome back, to our members.

Starting a new semester can be a bit disorienting after a summer full of free time, the workload is starting to set in and it may seem like the fun of summer is over.  Not to worry Japan Club has just the thing!

This Thursday, September 4, we will be hosting our first event of the year, our Welcome Back Party! We invite both new faces and old to join us as we kick off the year with a brief presentation of our events, delicious Japanese food, interactive games, prizes, and of course the always friendly e-board of Japan Club! Please feel free to join us this Thursday, September 4th during club hours 12:45-2:05 PM in VC 10-165. Hope to see you guys there!

Event Information

Event: Welcome Back Party!
Date: Thursday, September 4th

Time & Place: VC 10-165, 12:45-2:05

Best regards,
Amy Campos
Co-Secretary | Baruch Japan Club