BROWN UNIVERSITY CLUB OF JAPAN
2011 SUMMER HAPPY HOUR!

Dear Brown Alumni and Friends:

We hope you are staying cool in this heat wave..! Please join us for a summer happy hour from 7pm on Thursday, August 25 at TY Harbor Brewery to meet new people and hang out with old friends. Please help spread the word to recent grads and current Brownies here for the summer.

Date: Thursday, August 25, 7-9pm

Venue: TY Harbor Brewery (5 min taxi from Shinagawa, Map)
Please find us under the booking, ‘Brown/Wakao’. We will be inside (with air-conditioning!)

Cost: BYOD (buy your own drink)

Please RSVP by August 15 to aiko.wakao@gmail.com

If you get lost, please contact:
Aiko Wakao – 090-3910-3901
Kevin Sholes – 090-6305-0925

Friends and family are greatly welcome. We hope many of you can join us!

Dear All,

On April 28, 2011, with the help of the Pink Cow, the Japan Alumni organization of the schools listed below will have a buffet-style dinner at the Pink Cow with the goal of raising money for Second Harvest Japan which is delivering much needed food to the Tohoku area. Anyone is welcome, but an RSVP is necessary. The evening will start at 7:00pm and go until 11:00pm. The cost is 5,000 Yen per person with dinner included. There will also be a cash bar.

Second Harvest Japan is the nation’s first food bank. Second Harvest Japan (2HJ) collects food that would otherwise go to waste from food manufacturers, farmers, and individuals, and distributes them to people in need such as children in orphanages, battered women and their children in shelters, and the homeless in Japan. Second Harvest has been active in distributing food in Tohoku through establishing an office in Sendai, sending an average of one 4-ton truck per day to Sendai, and establishing a more steady stream of supplies to the affected areas. http://www.2hj.org

The Pink Cow is located at Villa Moderuna B1, 1-3-18 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku Tokyo. http://www.thepinkcow.com

Second Harvest Japan will also be accepting additional donations and additional in-kind donations will also be accepted as the Pink Cow provides a drop off point for Peace Boat. Please see http://bit.ly/pbmataid for what supplies you may be able to bring to Pink Cow that evening to drop off to be delivered to Miyagi.

Attendance is limited, so please RSVP to april28@2hj.org by April 24.

Thank you,

The respective Japan Alumni Associations of:

Brown University
Bryn Mawr College
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
Williams College
Yale University

Join the Harvard and Brown Clubs of Japan for a rare opportunity to see and experience one of Japan’s top Zen temples as an insider!

On April 24, members and their guests are invited to visit Engakuji, one of the most beautiful zen temples in Japan, conveniently located an hour from Tokyo. We have arranged for an exclusive and authentic meditation training session appropriate for practitioners from beginners to advanced. Engakuji is one of the major training sites for Zen monks in Japan so this is a rare treat! After the session, participants will have a chance to participate in a Q&A over tea with the head of lay training.

Both the Instruction and Q&A will be in English and Japanese with interpretation.

Please bring comfortable loose clothing appropriate for outside temperatures. (Think yoga but a bit warmer).

There will be spaces for men and women to change. Please plan ahead to minimize changing time.

The length of the meditation is tentatively set for three sessions of ten minutes.

Participants are welcome to tour Engakuji before and after the session.

Price: 1500 Yen
Time: 13:00 at Engakuji Kojirin (Meet at 12:30 at Kita-Kamakura station to walk there). The sessions will end by 15:00 and participants who leave then should make it back to Tokyo station by about 16:30.
Please RSVP to (benjamin.boas@fulbrightmail.org). Limited Space is available so please indicate your interest ASAP.