Sunday, September 03, 2006

Sept 2006 Tokyo Community News

Tuesday September 5, 7:30 - 9:00
PSC general meeting followed by Planning Meeting:
Location: Koots Green Tea, Harajuku/Omotesando area, off Meiji-dori
Map: http://www.koots.co.jp/store/detail_06.php
All interested in joining are requested to contact rose.ito@gmail.com
Main topics: NGO matsuri and Sept forum

Friday September 8, 2006, 12:30 – 13:30,
Social Inequity: What Young People Can Do About It?
Guest speaker:Dr. Sudha Nair
Director of Eco-technology at MS Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai, India
Location: Temple University Japan, Room 317
Map: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/maps/indexj.html

Friday Sept 8, 7:00 – 11:00
DEAR GEORGE, DEAR KOIZUMI!
A night of comedy and politics sponsored by the Tokyo Comedy Store & Democrats Abroad Japan
Special GOTV (get out the vote) benefit event
Location: Crocodile Live House, B1 Sekiguchi Bld., 6-18-8 Meiji-jingumae, Shibuya
Participation fee: ¥2000 (funds go towards for promoting DAJ online US voter reg site www.votefromabroad.org )
For event details: http://www.demsjapan.jp/node/view/1813

Friday Sept 8, 6:30 – 8:30
IMADR series on globalization and the trafficking of persons:
"What can be done end trafficking?"(in Japanese only)
Participation fee: 800 yen
Location Azabu Seminar House, Azabu dai 1-11-5
For more details visit http://www.imadr.org/japan/project/trafficking/renzokukouza.html .
To sign up imadrjc@imadr.org
Coordinating organization: IMADR-JC http://www.imadr.org

Saturday, Sept 9, 10:00 - 12:00
Temple University Japan Continuing Education Dept. Open House
Location and Venue access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/maps/index.html
For more information contact: Tel: 03-5441-9864, E-mail: conted@tuj.ac.jp
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/cont-ed/index.html

Saturday, September 9, from 1:30 pm
World Peace Now!
Anti-war march
Speakers and set up from 1:30, march from 2:30 pm
Start near Sendagaya station then Around Meiji Park
For more information please visit: http://www.worldpeacenow.jp/

Saturday, September 9, 2 to 5p.m.
Guest Presentation: Patrick Kane, MoveOn
National meeting of Democrats Abroad Japan officers and activists
Location: RBR New Center for the Creative Arts, 1-5-15 Moto Azabu, Minato-ku 106-0004, Tel: 03-5457-6171.
A map can be found at http://www.rbr-art.com/map/.
For details visit the DAJ website http://demsjapan.jp/.

Sunday, Sept 10, 10am-6pm
Ueno NGO Matsuri
Maruko Bldg, Ueno-Okachimachi area
1-20-6 Higashi-Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8605
A map can be found at http://www.jca.apc.org/repp/REPPchizu.htm
For event details check out: http://ngomatsuri2006.blog72.fc2.com/

Wednesday 13th September 2006
Amnesty G78 Monthly meeting
At the Amnesty International Japan Office.
Rab Peterson from Sophia University will speak on alternative and independent media
for more info, visit: http://www.aig78.org/

Thursday Sept. 14, 7:30 - 9:30
PSC Planning Meeting: for new projects and Skills Build Forum 7
Location: Koots Green Tea, Harajuku/Omotesando area, off Meiji-dori
Map: http://www.koots.co.jp/store/detail_06.php
All interested in joining are requested to contact rose.ito@gmail.com
Main topics: Sept 23 Forum

Friday, Starting dates for each series Sept 15 and Sept 29
Citizens academia lecture series (in Japanese)
Sept 15 Security and migrant workers insecurity
Sept 29 philosophy of illness - focus on AIDS
For details please visit: http://www.keiho- u.ac.jp/academia06

Friday, Sept 22, 2006 14:30 am to 16:00pm
Visit to the Diet on the destruction of the constitution.
Topics for discussion : Revision of the Constitution, Fundamental Law of Education change for the worse, conspiracy bill, Self-Defense Act, overseas deployment of army "permanent law", Antiterrorism Law extension
Meeting place: House of Representatives Members' Office Building #2
meeting room #1
in front of Nagatacho subway Station
Organized by several groups opposing Constitutional change
Contact 3221-4668 for details.

Saturday, Sept 23, 2006 10:30 am to 6:30pm, party to follow
Skills Building for Social Change 2006 - Forum 7
Panel discussion theme: NGOs working in Africa
Workshops: Volunteer Mgt, Fundraising, PR and marketing
An event to inform, train and empower participants into active community involvement.
For more information visit http://people-for-social-change.blogspot.com/ or contact contact rose.ito@gmail.com.

Tuesday, Sept 26, 12:30 - 14:00
"Cross-border organized crime treaty does not = conspiracy"
- Examination of report by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations
location: House of Councillors Bldg, meeting rooms 3 & 4
Organized by Amnesty International Japan, Japan Consumer Federation
and IMADR-JC
For more information contact: imadrjc@imadr.org

Saturday Sept 30
Series on Indigenous Peoples and the Commons
Lecture #6 theme: the place of Indigenous Peoples in the MDGs
For details visit http://www.imadr.org/japan/event/2006/indigenous_commons
.html

Saturday, Sept 30, all day
Global Festa Japan 2006
Location: Hibiya Park
For details, please visit: http://www.gfj2006.jp

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NGO Fellowship opportunities:
Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society is pleased to announce a unique fellowship opportunity: the spring 2007 Emerging Leaders International Fellows Program. The program provides leadership training through applied research and professional mentorships for young scholar-practitioners in the nonprofit sector.
Deadline: sept 15
For details, please visit: www.philanthropy.org

Annual Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) at Columbia University
designed to prepare proven human rights leaders from the Global South and marginalized communities in the U.S. to participate in national and international policy debates on globalization by building their skills, knowledge, and contacts. The Program features a four-month residency at Columbia University in New York City with a structured curriculum of advocacy, networking, skills-building, and academic coursework.
Deadline: Oct 1
For further information or to download copies of the application, please check out http://www.columbia.edu/cu/humanrights/training/adv/hradv_pgm.htm
Additional information can be requested by email from hradvocates@columbia.edu,

Looking for nonprofit and international organizations to host interns in 2007
Students studying Japanese in the US are looking for opportunities to intern at Tokyo area nonprofits and NGOs.
Time frame: 6 months (Jan to June 2007, April to Sept 2007 or July to Dec 2007) or 3 months (April to July 2007, Jan to April 2007, June to August, Sept to Dec
Visit http://global-internship-japan.blogspot.com/ for details.

Resources: video
This short (30 sec.) is both powerful and professionally done
"Remember the Dream that was America"-- was produced by a movie
producer friend of San Miguel Chapter of DA Mexico member Gunnar
Erickson. The producer financed it himself and wants to make it freely available to anyone who wants to use it. Visit http://www.thedreamthatwasamerica.com/

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Monday, August 07, 2006

Tokyo Community News: August 2006

For each the events listed, please contact the organizations below for details. If you would like to have events included in the Sept. listing, please send up to 8 lines of event information to TokyoCommunityEvents-owner@yahoogroups.com by Aug 29.

Thursday August 10 8:00 - 9:30
PSC Planning Meeting: for new projects and Skills Build Forum 7
Location: Koots Green Tea, Harajuku/Omotesando area, off Meiji-dori
Map: http://www.koots.co.jp/store/detail_06.php
All interested in joining are requested to contact rose.ito@gmail.com
Main topics: next forums and new projects ideas.

August 11-15
Let's Light a Candle of Peace!
A Candle Movement Against the Darkness of Yasukuni
Various locations in Tokyo
Contact: Lim, Seong-suk peacecandle2006@yahoo.co.jp
Visit the URL for more info: http://www.peacecandle.jp/

Friday August 18 7:30 - 9:30
PSC general meeting followed by Planning Meeting:
new projects and Skills Build Forum 7
Location: PSC office, Maruko Bldg, 3F, Ueno-Okachimachi area
1-20-6 Higashi-Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8605
A map can be found at http://www.jca.apc.org/repp/REPPchizu.htm
All interested in joining are requested to contact rose.ito@gmail.com

August 21 - September 1
UNU-ESD Summer School for Bird's -eye View Experts on Environment
Location: Tokyo, Japan
The two-week seminar, consisting of lectures given by professors and industrial experts from Japan and various countries, is aimed at broadening views of graduate students studying at Japanese universities on pressing global environmental issues.
For details or to sign up please visit http://www.unu.edu/events/#aug2006
Contact: Prof. Itaru Yasui or Tomoko Matsuzaki, UNU Centre

Wednesday, Aug 23, 6:00-8:00pm
Médecins du Monde Japon International Volunteer information session (in Japanese only)
Location JICA Plaza, Hiro (Hiro 4-2-24, Seminar Room #1)
All interested are requested to contact: hr@mdm.or.jpÅB
Visit www.mdm.or.jp to find out more about Médecins du Monde Japon

Wed & Thursday, August 23 & 24
UNU/UNESCO International Conference on "Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Science And Technology"
Location: Yokohama IAS
For details or to sign up, please visit http://www.unu.edu/events/#aug2006

Friday, August 2513th U Thant Lecture: "Dialogue Among Civilizations: Building global citizenship, promoting non-violence, and strengthening peace and development through dialogue among civilizations".
Guest speaker: Seyed Mohammad Khatami, Former President of Iran
Location: UN House, Tokyo, Japan
For details or to sign up, visit http://www.unu.edu/events/#aug2006



NGO Job opportunities:
Greenpeace has several job openings:http://www.greenpeace.or.jp/info/staff/recruit/?gv

Intern opportunities:
Intern/volunteer abroad with The Foundation for Sustainable Development
http://www.fsdinternational.org/

Looking for Internships in 2007
Students studying Japanese in the US are looking for opportunities to intern at Tokyo area nonprofits and NGOs.
Time frame: 6 months (Jan to June 2007, April to Sept 2007 or July to Dec 2007) or 3 months (April to July 2007, Jan to April 2007, June to August, Sept to Dec
Visit http://global-internship-japan.blogspot.com/ for details.

Articles of interest
EU: Push U.S. To Close Guantanamo
European governments should take concrete steps to help close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter sent to EU foreign ministers. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/14/usdom13741.htm
July 14, 2006

Useful links:
Recently I was asked which NGOs are doing anti-whaling work in Japan. All I could find was info on groups that are part of larger international environmental networks:
WWF Japan Å[ lots in English but not much about whales on the Japanese site.
Friends of the Earth Japan – despite what they have in English, I found little to nothing about the sea protection and whales on their Japanese website
Greenpeace Japan seems to be the main group doing such work here.
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Saturday, July 08, 2006

Tokyo Community News: July 2006

Tokyo Community News: July 2006

For each the events listed, please contact the organizations below for details. If you would like to have events included in the August listing, please send event information, using the outline below, to TokyoCommunityEvents-owner@yahoogroups.com by July 25.

Please share event information with others.

Sunday, July 2, 7:00 - late
"Cuba Viva! Salsa Charity Event for the Cuban Medical Support"
Location and Venue access details
Participation fee:3,500 with one drink
Venue: Akasaka Bflat http://www.bflat.jp/home/index.html
Registration info Peace Boat. TEL: 03-3363-7561 FAX: 03-3363-7562
For more information contact: tokyo@peaceboat.gr.jp
Coordinating organization: Peace Boat
Sponsor: Cuban Embassy, Cuban Round-Table Conference

Wednesday, July 5, 7:00 - 8:30
Symposium: What is a terrorist?
Location: Koryuu Event Space Akane nishi Waseda 2-1-17, Sakai Bldg. 1F
Participation fee: 1000 yen
For more information contact TEL:03-5292-1866, aaf77610@pop17.odn.ne.jp

Friday, July 7, 7:00 - late
Salsa without borders: Live music and dancing to support artists without borders: featuing Afro-Cuban Salsa (Timba) Band, HABANA 4 and DJ: LEON
Location and Venue access details Pink Cow, Shibuya
Participation fee: 3500 yen (includes snacks, dance lesson and a fun night for all!)
For more information visit: www.artwit.org
Coordinating organization: Artists without borders

Wednesday, July 19, 11:00 - late
PARTY: RESPECT: Sexual Health for Empowerment
Location: XROSS Club in Nishi Azabu
Participation fee: 2500 yen (includes one drink)
For more information visit: http://qqsite.org/respect/

Thursday, July 20, 8:00 - 9:30
PSC Planning Meeting: for new projects and Skills Build Forum 7
Location: Lavazza Café in Harajuku,
On Omotesando-dori near the Meiji Dori crossing
Contact Rose.ito@gmail.com for more information.

Friday July 21, 6:30 – 8:30
IMADR series on globalization and trafficking: the effect of the war on terror on trafficking (in Japanese only)
Participation fee: 800 yen
Location Azabu Seminar House, Azabu dai 1-11-5
For more details visit http://www.imadr.org/japan/project/trafficking/renzokukouza.html.
To sign up imadrjc@imadr.org
Coordinating organization: IMADR-JC

Wednesday, July 20-27
UNHCR Refugee film festival
Location: Various European Embassies and Institutes
Participation fee: free!
For more information visit:
http://www.unhcr.or.jp/news/event/20060720_RefugeeFilmFestival.html

Saturday, June 22, 1.30 pm – 5:30pm
NetTokyo 2 Summer Charity Networking Event in Tokyo,
Venue: Shunju, Sanno Park Tower 27F
Participation fee: 4000 yen in advance; 5000 yen at the door (includes light light Japanese delicacies, one drink ticket, and one raffle ticket for great prizes)
Limited to 300 people. RSVP required
For more information visit http://www.nettokyo.jp

Application deadline: Tuesday, July 25
Amurt Japan – Study tour to Sri Lanka, Aug 24-31
Study tour participation fee 179,000yen
For more information contact: AMURT at TEL: 03-3338-3551 FAX: 03-3338-3544
e-mail: info@amurt.or.jp
Visit their website for more information: http://www.amurt.or.jp/jap/news_studytour.html

Your help needed!
PSC is looking for an intern to help with PR and database development.
We are also looking for some used office equipement.
Contact rose.ito@gmail.com to find out more.

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Useful links related to Ijime:
Recently I was asked for where to refer people whose children are bullying victims.
I found out about the following:
Consultation offices through out Japan:
Click on your prefecture on this map and get a list:
http://www.nicer.go.jp/integration/user/map.php
for example in Tokyo:
http://www.nicer.go.jp/integration/user/adviser/taskforce_list.php?prefecture_code=13

Chiyoka-ku Ijime Sodan TEL 03-3264-4397
Edo-ku Education Committee Guidance Office TEL 03-3647-9111
Meguro-ku Education center TEL 03-3710-6770

There is also a group called Ijime SOS:
http://www.orange.ne.jp/~azz-d/k-park/ijime1/ijimenu.htm

National info centers
Government offices:
Children’s Rights Sodan TEL 0120-874-374
Children’s rights 110 TEL 03-5689-0535
NGOs:
Japan International Center for the Rights of the Child (JICRC) http://jicrc.org/
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