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. . . that weren’t
Before the 1964 Games, Tokyo won the 1940 bid
In press-freedom news . . .
Australia’s ABC offices
raided by police

Full coverage
Lens-man Richard Atrero
de Guzman profiled

In memoriam
Associated Press’s
Eric Talmadge

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Publisher FCCJTHE FRONT PAGE

From the President by Peter Langan
The art of politics:
The disappearance of a sorely needed medium
From the archives:
The journalist hostage by Charles Pomeroy

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FCCJ BOARD OF DIRECTORS(2018-19 term)
President Peter Langan, Freelance
1st Vice President Abigail Leonard, Freelance
2nd Vice President Robert Whiting, Freelance
Secretary Daniel Hurst, Freelance
Treasurer Willem Kortekaas,
Associate Member
Directors-at-Large Khaldon Azhari,
PanOrient News
Daniel Sloan, Nissan Motor/Freelance
Mary Corbett, Professional Associate Member
Milton Isa, Associate Member
Kanji Kazuo Abiko, Freelance
Associate Kanji Makoto Honjo,
Associate Member

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MEMBER EVENTSPRESS CONFERENCE VIDEOSCLUB CALENDAR

Sydney shock to press freedom
by Rebecca Ananian-Welsh

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Attracting attention, and new members
by Julian Ryall

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The Olympiad that never wasby Mark Schreiber

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PROFILECLUB INFORMATION

Richard Atrero de Guzman
Visual journalist
by Kathryn Wortley

Editor Gregory Starr
Art Director Andrew Pothecarywww.itsumo-music.jp/design
Editorial Assistant Naomichi Iwamura
Photo Coordinator Akiko Miyake
Publications committee members
Gavin Blair, Freelance (co-chair)
Geoffrey Tudor, Orient Aviation (co-chair)
Daniel Hurst, Freelance
Sonja Blaschke, Freelance
Albert Siegel, Freelance

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FCCJ COMMITTEE CHAIRSAssociate Members Liaison Keiko Packard,
Harumi Kumagai
Compliance Kunio Hamada, Yoshio Murakami
DeRoy Memorial Scholarship Abigail Leonard,
David SatterwhiteEntertainment Sandra Mori
Exhibition Bruce Osborn
Film Karen Severns
Finance Willem Kortekaas
Food & Beverage Robert Kirschenbaum
Freedom of Press Abigail Leonard
House & Property Peter Langan,
David Satterwhite
Human Resources Willem Kortekaas
Information Technology Albert Siegel
Library, Archives & Workroom
Koichi Ishiyama, Suvendrini Kakuchi
Membership Andrew Horvat, Peter O’Connor
Membership Marketing Abigail Leonard,
Willem Kortekaas
Professional Activities Tetsuo Jimbo,
David McNeill
Public Relations Rosa Argyropoulos
Publications Gavin Blair, Geoff Tudor
Special Projects Haruko Watanabe
Foreign Press in Japan Robin Harding

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FROM THE PRESIDENT (2018-19)

THE ART OF POLITICS

DEAR FELLOW MEMBERS,
We have just concluded theelection of the Board of
directors for the coming year.
Congratulations to the new
Board members and many thanks
to everyone who voted, and to those who attended
the General Membership Meeting on June 27.
I’m unable to name the new officers of the Boardin this mail because those appointments will be madeat a later Board orientation meeting. What I can do,
however, is give an update from the final meeting of
the departing Board on June 10.
The General Manager gave a briefing on Food andBeverage, with Main Bar revenues for May dipping 6
percent on year, while banquet sales rose 20 percent.
The Club in June was facing a little under ¥1 million
in delinquent accounts. About one-third of that is now
written off with the remainder being pursued. Thatis a substantial improvement on the situation several
months ago, thanks to the GM and the Treasurer.
The Treasurer also reported that operational
revenues for 2018-19 were slightly over budget,
but membership-related revenues were below thetarget. The latter is of concern as attracting newmembers is key to the Club’s future and something
that, I would argue, will be the main task of the new
Board. Two other priorities are the hiring of a deputy
for the General Manager and a staff member to assist
Hiroko Moriwaki in the Library. Moriwaki-san is oneof the FCCJ’s heroes and I extend a sincere thanks
to her for all the assistance she provides above andbeyond her job description.
There’s been an increase in hacking attacks on theClub website, which is to be expected considering
our hosting of individuals and groups that are
unwelcome in certain quarters. Security will be a key
focus of the design of a new website, along with amore attractive format. The board has reviewed anumber of bids and given authority for a contact tobe signed with a service provider. However, approvalof the design of the new site remains with the Board.
PAC has recently introduced a new lanyard badge
procedure for press events, so the MC can better
identify journalists during question time. Attendees
meeting criteria as journalists will be given a green
lanyard at the front desk for their journalism ID.
Please wear it at the press conference to help the
Q&A proceed properly.
I’m running out of space, but to finish on a highnote, the chairs around the bar have been fitted withadjustors to the legs to raise them to a level thatmakes eating food at the bar a less elbow-challenging
experience. For a meal suggestion, I recently tried
the fish and chips without the chips, opting insteadfor the Greek salad. It set me up for the day. See youin the Club.
– Peter Langan
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FROM THE ARCHIVES

The disappearance of asorely needed medium

The journalist hostage

WE ARE LIVING IN anage when the presidentof the US—commonly,
if dubiously, called“the leader of thefree world”—says hewould like people toadmire him as theNorth Korean people
do Kim Jong Un, theSupreme Leader ofa dictatorship. Whenin Britain, the leadcandidate to head
the governing party
and become prime
minister has beenpreviously caught
conspiring to havea journalist beaten
up and has been demoted in government, sacked from anewspaper and even faced a court summons for his lies. When
populist leaders from India to Brazil bathe in praise often of
their own making.
Then, last month, the New York Times decided to completely
stop all political cartoons. Yes, they can go too far, as did
one cartoon they published in April that strayed into antisemitism. It crossed the line of “speaking truth to power”
and into an area where the power of previous cartooning had
removed truths. While aiming to show Israel’s influence on
President Trump, it pictured Israel’s prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu as a guide dog leading a blind president—only
Trump was wearing a yarmulke, suggesting he had converted
to Judaism, not Israeli politics.
Yes, the idea of Jews as dogs has an appalling history.
But that’s what editing is for—to guide, change or cut.
The failure of an editorial staff to do its job should not bea reason for a blanket stop on publishing anything,including cartoons.
The art of the political cartoon lies in the ability tosummarize an issue, to burst established bubbles and expose
underlying intentions and characteristics. As UK cartoonist
Martin Towson wrote after the Times’ decision, political
cartoons have “the power to shock and offend. That, largely,
is what they’re there for, as a kind of dark, sympathetic magic
masquerading as a joke.”We don’t have a cartoonist in Number 1 Shimbun. But there
is a reason that the Chinese cartoonist Wang Liming, who had
exiled himself to Japan, made our front cover in February
2015: he was concerned for his safety and freedom if hecontinued making cartoons in China.
At times, however, our covers have used a thought processsimilar to that of a political cartoonist—such as the November
2015 cover of the Asahi Shimbun folded into a paper boat and
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bombed; the start ofthe 2017’s Year of the
Rooster referencing
the strutting natureof the US president
in cartoonish form
(with extra double
meaning); or a visualcomment about thesafety of Japan’s new
seawalls on the March
2016 cover.
Our Trump cover
was not necessarily universally liked. To some extent
that is the effect of a political cartoonist. The powerof a good piece of art might test the boundaries
of lampooning those in power. Or, perhaps, theboundaries of social-media voices, which can gather
individually to express a collective outrage.
The cartoonists of the French satirical publication
Charlie Hebdo can get too close for comfort on issuesof racism or religious freedom—even occasionallycross the line, some might justifiably argue. But their
aim is to nonviolently burst the bubbles of power andthe powerful with their art, not to be part of a world
where five of their staff can be slaughtered in theiroffices for their views.
At a time when many hundreds of thousands ofpeople are marching in Hong Kong, some hoistingplacards of the city’s Chief Executive pictured
as a devil, and many protesters in the UK arecompeting to make the most pertinent and pithy
placard about politicians and Brexit, it seems
exactly the wrong time to be stopping political
cartoons. If anything, they—as any medium
seeking to challenge opaque and misused power—
are needed more than ever.

– Andrew Pothecary

Andrew Pothecary is the art director of Number 1 Shimbun.
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On Christmas Eve of 1991, Andy Adams (Sumo World), Don Kirk
(USA Today), and Club President David Powers (BBC), raise theirchampagne glasses to Terry Anderson, the Chief Middle East
correspondent for the Associated Press (AP) who had just beenreleased after almost seven years in captivity as a hostage. The
former active FCCJ member, serving both as 2nd and 1st VicePresident, was taken hostage by Muslim extremists in Lebanon
on March 16, 1985. He would return to the Club in July of 1992 torecount his experience to our members.
Born in Ohio in 1947, Terry Anderson, who served as a US
Marine Corps combat journalist, including two tours in
Vietnam, graduated from Iowa State University in 1974
with degrees in journalism and political science prior tojoining the AP. His career in that organization took him tovarious countries, including Japan and Korea. He was an
enthusiastic participant in Club affairs. Nine referencesin the Index of the Club’s history book provide glimpses of
his activities, including his harrowing coverage of Korea’s
Kwangju rebellion. He became the AP’s Chief Middle East
correspondent in 1983. He also became the longest heldof almost a dozen Americans hostages seized by Hezbollah
extremists in Lebanon at the time. When asked in aninterview after his release how he had survived, he replied,“You just do what you have to do. You wake up every day andsummon up energy from somewhere, and you get throughthe day, day after day after day.”Post-release, Terry has led a busy life, writing a memoir of
his hostage experience (Den of Lions), participating in talkshows, and teaching journalism at well-known universities.
A lawsuit resulting in a multimillion-dollar settlement fromfrozen assets of the Iranian government, which had supported
Hezbollah, also launched him into philanthropic activities.
These included co-founding a non-profit organization toprovide education for children in Vietnam as well as creating
a foundation in the name of a fellow hostage of the Hezbollah.
His one stab at politics, in which he ran as a Democrat in a
Republican stronghold, ended in defeat in 2004.
Terry Anderson is now retired in Florida, where he leads aquiet life in the town of Unionville in Orange County.

– Charles Pomeroy
editor of Foreign Correspondents in Japan,
a history of the Club that is available at the front desk5

Feature: Freedom of the Press

The government was not blind to the potential impact of
this scheme on source confidentiality. For example, obtaining metadata relating to a journalist’s mobile phone could
reveal where they go and who they contact, easily pointing
to their sources. This led to the introduction of the “Journalist Information Warrant,” or JIW. This warrant is required if
an agency wishes to access retained metadata for the direct
purpose of identifying a professional journalist’s source.
So access to a professional journalist’s metadata in order
to identify a confidential source is permitted, provided theaccess has a particular criminal investigation or enforcement
purpose and the agency can show it is in the public interestand therefore obtain a JIW.
The June raids suggest several possibilities: that either JIWs
could not be obtained in relation to Smethurst, Fordham, or
the ABC journalists; the journalists’ metadata did not reveal
their sources; or federal police did not attempt to access their
metadata. If metadata had identified the journalists’ sources,
it is unclear why this week’s dramatic developments took place.
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home, her mobile phone and computer. The police
linked the raid to “the alleged publishing of information classified as an official secret.” This stemmed from Smethurst’s
2018 article that contained images of a “top secret” memo
and reported that senior government officials were considering moves to empower the Australian Signals Directorate tocovertly monitor Australian citizens for the first time.
Soon after, 2GB Radio presenter Ben Fordham revealed hehad been notified by the Department of Home Affairs that
he was the subject of a similar investigation, aimed at identifying the source of classified information he had reported
regarding intercepted boat arrivals.
On June 5, the federal police raided the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Sydney headquarters, a dramatic development that was connected to a 2017 “Afghan files” reportbased on “hundreds of pages of secret defense force documents leaked to the ABC.” These documents revealed disturbing allegations of misconduct by Australian special forces.
The reaction to the raids was immediate and widespread.
The New York Times quoted News Corp’s description of the
Smethurst raid as “a dangerous act of intimidation towards
those committed to telling uncomfortable truths.” Prime
Minister Scott Morrison was quick to distance his government from the federal police’s actions, while opposition
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To those familiar with the ever-expanding field of Australian national security law, these developments were unlikely
to surprise. In particular, enhanced data surveillance powers
and a new suite of secrecy offenses introduced in late 2018
have sparked widespread concern over the future of public
interest journalism in Australia.
But the crackdown of the past few days reveals that at least
two of the core fears expressed by lawyers and the media industry were well-founded: first, the demise of source confidentiality, and second, a chilling effect on public interest journalism.

Source confidentiality

Upon finding out he was the subject of an investigation
aimed at uncovering his sources of government information,
Fordham declared, “The chance of me revealing my sources
is zero. Not today, not tomorrow, next week or next month.
There is not a hope in hell of that happening.” Source confidentiality is one of journalism’s central ethical principles. It
is recognized by the UN and is vital to a functioning democracy and free, independent, robust, and effective media.
One of the greatest threats to source confidentiality is Australia’s uniquely broad data surveillance framework. The 2015
metadata retention scheme requires that all metadata—that
is, data about a device or communication but not the communication itself—be retained for two years, and it may becovertly accessed by a wide array of government agencies
without a warrant. Some reports suggest that by late 2018,some 350,000 requests for access to metadata were being
received by telecommunications service providers each year.
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ing criminal prosecution. The 2018 changes include a “general secrecy offense,” whereby it is an offense (punishable byimprisonment for five years) to communicate classified information obtained from an Australian public servant. Fordham’s radio broadcast about intercepted boat arrivals was,for example, a clear communication of classified information.
Again, journalists are offered some protection. If prosecuted, a journalist can seek to rely on the “journalism defense”
by proving that they dealt with the information as a journalist and that they reasonably believed the communication to bein the public interest. The meaning of “public interest” in thiscontext is unclear and untested, but it would take into accountthe public interest in national security and government integrity secrecy concerns as well as openness and accountability.

Protecting media freedom

Australia has more national security laws than any othernation. It is also the only liberal democracy lacking a Charterof Human Rights or other foundational document that would
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have also criminalized a wide array of conduct related to theand highly controversial Telecommunications and Other
handling of sensitive government information, both by govLegislation Amendment Act 2018.
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As well as expanding computer access and network accessjust a few parts of a much larger national security framework
warrants, the Act provided a means for government agenthat includes control orders, preventative detention orders,cies to co-opt those in the telecommunications industry to
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communications to be decrypted. A warrant would then be
JIWs and the inclusion of a journalism defense to the secrerequired to access the device and communication data.
cy offense recognize the importance of a free press. HowevIt is impossible to know whether Australian journalists
er, each of these protections relies on a public interest test.
have been targeted under the Act or have had weaknesses
When government claims of national security and the integor spyware installed on their personal devices. The recent
rity of classifications are weighed into this balance, it is difraids suggest the Australian Federal Police are prepared to
ficult to see how other interests might provide an effective
target journalists under this framework in order to identify
counterbalance.
journalists’ confidential sources. However, this could only be
One of the most disturbing outcomes is not the potential
done for certain purposes, including in the investigation of aprosecutions or even the raids themselves, but the chillingsecrecy offense.
of public interest journalism. Sources are less likely to comeforward if they face risk to themselves and a high likelihoodof identification by government agencies. And journalists are
Secrecy offenses
less likely to run stories if they know the risks posed to their
In June 2018, the government introduced a suite of newsources and perhaps even to themselves.
espionage, foreign interference and secrecy offenses. This
Against this background, the calls for a Media Freedom Act
included an offense of current or former Australian offiby groups such as the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom havecers communicating information obtained by virtue of theirgained significant traction. It may take this kind of bold stateposition likely to cause harm to the nation’s interests. Thisment to cut across the complexities of individual laws andoffense is punishable by imprisonment for seven years. If theboth recognize and protect the basic freedom of the press
information is security classified or the person held a secuand the future of public interest journalism in Australia. ❶rity classification, then they may have committed an “aggravated offense” and be subject to ten years’ imprisonment.
The raids also reveal just how common it is for public
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ment sources. But the journalists themselves may also be facConversation under a Creative Commons license.
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Series: Profile

Richard Atrero de Guzman
Visual journalist
By Kathryn Wortley

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Photo in 2007, followed by a masterfter four years of building hisclass in photojournalism at Workshop­
portfolio on his website, RichHE POINTS OUT A
Asia deepened his appreciation for andard Atrero de Guzman got his
TRADITIONAL TATTOO
understanding of capturing news in a
first video commission in Japan in
ON HIS FOREARM, INKED
photo. “I can’t explain the happiness I
2013. It was to cover the International
BY THE LAST REMAINING
feel when I see my photo in print,” heOlympic Committee’s announcementof the city chosen to host the 2020
ARTIST IN A FILIPINO TRIBE says, adding that it is extra special when
it is doing its job effectively.
Games: a great win for the then-38FOLLOWING FILMING FOR
His other passion is documentaries,
year-old Filipino who says he arrived
A DOCUMENTARY
nurtured during his BA in Fine Arts
in Tokyo with “no language skills, no
and Visual Communication from thecontacts and no idea how to break
University of the Philippines and years
into journalism.”
spent in Tokyo “shooting everything on the streets.” He has
As his style was mastered from years spent as a video docurecorded everything from protests to festivals but admits
mentarian who expressed life through his lens, however, thethat although “it’s fun for me to shoot everything I like, it
piece didn’t suit Ruptly, the Berlin-based international news
doesn’t pay.”agency that had commissioned him. Undeterred, he asked
the editor for another chance and, after some research, proNOW, HE SAYS, HE uses his experience to ensure that he canduced a piece that secured him regular work.
be paid for what he shoots. Where a few years ago he would
The experience instilled in him humility, determination
jump on a flight to immediately cover events after they
and a love of learning that he applies in his photo and video
happened—such as when he traveled to Kumamoto immejournalism to this day. No project is impossible, no skill candiately after the earthquakes in 2016—he now assesses
not be mastered, and no topic is off limits.
the best time to go and whether the story warrants a trip.
Ten years ago he was only shooting photo and video, and he
The internet, he says, has helped make that process easier,“didn’t know how to use a computer.” Now, with YouTube as
thanks to the wealth of news to follow and connectivity withhis teacher, he is editing, producing, directing, flying drones,
fellow journalists and editors. News of the Sri Lanka bomboperating live and even making 360° video. “I’m not scaredings broke just as he was tying up a shoot in Bangkok, so heof doing anything. There is no reason to be stupid right now
posted on his Facebook status that he was going to cover it.
because the internet is there,” he says.
By the time his plane landed in Colombo, his inbox was full
The variety of his beat, from local and international newsof requests for footage.
to culture and travel, has made him a generalist rather than
Still, de Guzman retains a desire to tell people’s stories
a specialist, but he is happy to cover topics unfamiliar to him.
whether or not he gets paid. Of particular interest is the“I’m very honest with my editors. If I don’t know something, I
indigenous people of the Philippines, which is the reason forjust ask. They know I’m not a lawyer or an engineer,” he says,
his nickname Bahagski, bahag meaning “loin cloth” in Tagareflecting on his coverage of Carlos Ghosn’s case and thelog and ski being the affectionate slang used after a person’sTokyo Motor Show.
name. Sitting in the bar of the FCCJ, which he joined in 2014,
he points out a traditional tattoo on his forearm, inked by the
WITH THIS APPROACH, HE has picked up freelance assignlast remaining artist in a Filipino tribe following filming for aments with media around the world. In 2014, he became adocumentary. Receiving the tattoo would not have been posstringer for Ruptly, producing video mostly on “politics andsible without first building a rapport, something he says islight news.” This was followed by photo commissions fromvital because he is asking people to let him into their personal
the New York Times, Time and Great Big Story.
lives. As always, his recipe for success is study—in this case,In 2016, he began uploading his photos to Japanese photoof people and their culture to know “how they might open up
agency Alfo and Italian photo agency NurPhoto, from where
and trust you.”his photos were shared with sister agencies AFP and Getty. De
As he began his career in Japan by shooting the unveilGuzman attributes this exposure to gaining greater recogniing of Tokyo as 2020 host, de Guzman is excited to cover thetion globally and more requests for jobs. In the past two years
Olympics, despite being unfamiliar with sport. But learning
he has added TV Tokyo, Berlin-based media outlet redfish,
adds more strings to your bow as a journalist, he says, andglobal news network RT (formerly Russia Today), AFP, Sipa
he promises not to hesitate to ask questions. ❶Press and Al Jazeera to his client list.
Though most outlets require both photo and video journalism, de Guzman says he “loves” doing photos despite it
Kathryn Wortley is a freelance journalist for online and print media inbeing “really challenging.” A scholarship from World Press
the UK and Asia-Pacific.
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Feature: Joining the Club

Attracting attention, and new members
The Membership Marketing Committee is tasked
with raising the profile of the Club and attracting
new members, Regular and Associate alike

Committee, members
Kaori Furuta, David Satterwhite, Willem Kortekaas (cochair) and Keiko Packard meet. Co-chair Abby Leonard(below right) also spearheaded the committee’s
Journalism Learning Labs (such as Temple University
Law School’s Tina Saunders presenting “Journalism andJustice: Legal Reporting in Japan”, right).

By Julian Ryall

ATTRITION CAN BE ATTRIBUTED to the Club’s “old hands”
retiring or leaving Japan, while technology means that many
journalists no longer need a bricks-and-mortar office to beable to do their job. And without a steady flow of significant
press-related events, the Club begins to lose its appeal tosome of the associates.
“The money that the Club needs is in the associate membership and we have to make ourselves attractive to that group ofpeople,” said Kortekaas. “We need to be delivering well-organized and high-quality activities and programs that distinguish the FCCJ from all the other institutions around Tokyo.”
Equally, the Club is important to Japan’s media landscapefor a number of reasons, he added. “The Club champions
freedom of the press. This is the only organization here thatstill provides a place for people with opinions that deviate
from the ‘official viewpoint’ to deliver their message,” hesaid, pointing to press conferences with the Dalai Lama andrepresentatives of the Uighur community in exile.
The Club has also shown that it can play an important role10

become associate members,
with the Marunouchi district’s extensive business
community also seen as apotential pool of new members. The priority, however,has to be strengthening theattractiveness of the Club toregular and associate members, he emphasizes.
The committee also hashigh hopes for the Journalism
Learning
Labs,
which were an initiative
spearheaded by Leonard and have already attracted a firm
following. “The program is designed to provide FCCJ members with professional development opportunities and also
bring in other—often younger—journalists who are not yet
members,” she said. “Several of the seminars have focused ontechnical skills, others have offered career guidance and allof them were good networking opportunities. We want to give
people a reason to come to the Club—and then hit them withthe membership applications.”
There have been four lab events to date, including AP
Bureau Chief Ken Moritsugu explaining his own career andoffering advice to up-and-coming journalists, an explorationof the media industry in the digital age and an examinationof legal reporting in Japan.
And there has already been some success, said Leonard, witha number of people who attended the seminars applying formembership. “I think they come to the Club and see the newfacility and hear about the other events we hold and services
we provide, and decide they’d like to be part of it,” she said.
There is also a degree of cross-over with the Club’s Scholarship Committee, of which Leonard is also a member, and she
is hopeful that some students will become regular members
after they graduate.
And she remains confident that the membership committee’s work will pay off over the long-run. “Of course we would
have liked to see many more members joining - especiallywith the new facility—but we are building slowly and steadily,” she said. ❶ALBERT SIEGELANDREW POTHECARYO

ver the course of an hour-long conversation, Willem
Kortekaas does not come across as a man prone to
hyperbole. So when he says the Club needs to attract
new members in order to generate the revenue that we needto survive and thrive, then the rest of us would be wise toheed that suggestion.
FCCJ President Peter Langan approached Abby Leonard
and Kortekaas earlier this year to resurrect the MembershipMarketing Committee (after a considerable amount of timeeffectively in hibernation) and lift member numbers to levels
that would enable the Club to cover the higher rent and costs
associated with the new premises. Equally, the task was toattract new members to raise the Club’s profile and ensurethat it remains the place “where news is made.”
Kortekaas, an Associate Member since 1983 and presidentof Euroact KK, serves as co-chair with freelance journalist
Leonard, with Keiko Packard and David Satterwhite roundingout the four-strong committee and Kaori Furuta seconded
from the Club.
There are around 1,600 associate members of the Club atpresent, and around 275 regular members. Ideally, Kortekaas
said, the FCCJ would have a total membership of around
2,200 and a waiting list.
“There was always an assumption in the past that we would
have a gradual increase in members, but that is not happening,” said Kortekaas. “We are getting some new members inboth the journalists and associates categories, but they are
only replacing the numbers that are dropping out, meaningthat the total remains at about the same level.”“WE NEED TO BE DELIVERING
WELL-ORGANIZED AND HIGH-QUALITY
ACTIVITIES THAT DISTINGUISH THE
FCCJ FROM ALL THE OTHERINSTITUTIONS AROUND TOKYO
when major news events happen in Japan and the eyes of theworld are on this country, such as the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011. Looking into the immediate future, theworld’s press is going to be seeking a home-away-from-homewhen the Rugby World Cup kicks off this autumn and when
the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Paralympics are staged
next year. The committee is presently discussing a temporary
membership system for journalists here to cover these global
sporting events that goes beyond the present guest membership category.
“To some extent, journalists are less reliant on a physicalClub,” admits Leonard. “Audio, video and still photos can betransmitted quickly over the Internet, there are a million
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ways to make free international calls; equipment is getting
smaller and cheaper—but there are still services and technologies the Club can provide that would be too expensive forfreelancers to afford on their own.”
SHE COUNTS THEM ON her fingers: broadcast-quality audio
booths, a photography studio and—of course—“access to ourincredible research librarians. The Club also offers camaraderie that technology can’t replace.”
The only way to bring in new members, Leonard andKortekaas agree, is to be very proactive in reaching out toeveryone who might be interested. The committee is in theprocess of contacting ambassadors in Tokyo to remind themthat they qualify for honorary membership, an offer that a
number have taken up, while a similar arrangement exists forthe heads of foreign chambers of commerce in Japan. Again,
memories are being jogged.
The committee plans to next contact the heads of prefectural offices in Tokyo to offer them honorary membership andto suggest that they might want to use the Club to promote
their regions. Similarly, plans are in motion to invite the managing directors of regional newspapers across the country to
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Julian Ryall is Japan correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.
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Feature: The Tokyo Olympics

THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE at theclosing ceremonies of the 11th Olympiad in Berlin—memorialized in Leni
Riefenstahl’s film, Olympia—when IOC
President Latour addressed the crowd:“It has been decided that the next Olympics, in 1940, will be held in Tokyo.” Aftera brief hesitation for the news to sinkin, the members of the Japanese contingent began shouting “Banzai!” withboth arms raised. Athletes from othercountries who were expecting to compete in Japan besieged Japanese teammembers, asking for home addresses sothey could look them up four years later.
The news was quickly dispatched toJapan and by late the same evening, people carrying paper lanterns marched incelebration to the Nijubashi bridge outside the palace and to the Meiji Shrine.
Long-distance runner Kohei Murakoso,
who had finished 4th in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meter
events in Berlin, told the NHK audience by telephone hookupthat he “would begin training for the Olympics to be held in
his fatherland from tomorrow.”
On their voyage home, however, Japan’s athletes wereserved a rude reminder of the precarious political situationin Asia. When her ship visited Shanghai, swimmer Hideko
Maehata recalled being told by the crew that conditions werein the city were “extremely dangerous” and their ship would
weigh anchor away from the docks for security. The Japanese
athletes were accompanied by an armed military escort while
touring the city, and Maehata recalled thinking to herself,“Under these circumstances, an Olympics in Tokyo might not
be feasible.”
Such concerns aside, planners moved forward with aschedule of events. The opening ceremony would be held at
3:00 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, and the closing ceremony at
2:00 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6. A total of 20 events were planned:
track and field, shooting, swimming, field hockey, water polo,
fencing, gymnastics, soccer, weightlifting, basketball, wrestling, cycling, boxing, modern pentathlon, equestrian, artcompetitions, boating, martial arts, yachting and baseball.
Soccer, rugby, tennis, polo, water polo, field hockey, handball,basketball and Basque-style pelota (a relative of jai-alai) were
to be introduced on a trial basis.

By Mark Schreiber

The

Olympiadthat never was

Two years before the 1940 Games werescheduled to be held in Tokyo, criticism ofJapan’s war in China led to a boycott movement
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THE ABOVE SCENARIO OBVIOUSLY never happened. It presupposes that prior to mid-1938, Japan’s military had substantially, if not completely, withdrawn from China. And, of course,that Germany had not invaded Poland in September 1939.
As it turned out, the Japanese government decided against
hosting the games on July 14, 1938, and the 12th Olympiad of1940 became what is now commonly referred to as Maboroshino Orinpikku—the Olympics that never were.
Tentative moves toward the selection of Tokyo as hostbegan as early as 1929, when Swedish industrialist Sigfrid
Edström, an organizer of the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm,
visited Japan and discussed Tokyo’s prospects with Tadaoki
Yamamoto, chairman of the Inter-University Athletic Union
of Japan. A year later Yamamoto, who traveled to Germany
as head of Japan’s contingent to the International Student
Games, was urged by Tokyo’s mayor-to-be Hidejiro Nagata to
begin promotion efforts.
Nagata sought to host the games as a way of celebrating
Tokyo’s recovery from the earthquake and fire that devastated the city in September 1923. In his view, the Olympics
also would add window dressing to plans afoot the same year
to commemorate the 2,600th anniversary of the ascension of
Jimmu, the legendary first emperor of the Yamato Dynasty,
an event that clearly had more enthusiastic support from themilitarists in the government.
Japan’s representatives to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Seiichi Kishi and Judo founder Jigoro Kano, wererespected individuals passionately involved in amateur sports
who worked tirelessly to promote Tokyo to their foreign counterparts. Another influential figure, Count Michimasa Soejima
represented Japan at the general meeting of the IOC in May
1934, where he proposed Tokyo’s hosting of the event. The following year, Soejima, accompanied by diplomat Yotaro Sugimura, personally met with Italian prime minister Benito Mussolini to persuade Il Duce to withdraw Rome as a candidate city.
Although Japan’s incursion into Manchuria from 1931 hadcome under increasingly heavy international criticism, theIOC’s president, Belgian count Henri de Baillet-Latour, waspredisposed to treat politics and sports as separate issues,and in July 1936, with Germany’s backing, Tokyo got the nod
to host the games, with 36 votes to 27 for Helsinki.

From the 12th Olympic Tokyo Conference, Tokyo City Report

It was 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, 1940, under sunny skies.
The temperature was a balmy 23.2 degrees, with a brisk
breeze. A multitude of 120,000 excited spectators who filled
the just-completed Komazawa Stadium to capacity turned
their heads upwards to watch a formation of five newly
built Imperial Japanese Navy Zero fighter planes soaring
overhead, as they inscribed the five Olympic rings in blue,
orange, black, green and red smoke on the sky.
As a military band struck up “Kimigayo,” the crowd roseas one to its feet, and 39-year-old Emperor Hirohito, clad infull military regalia and flanked by his color guard, entered
the track atop his white steed, Shirayuki.
Ascending to the rostrum, his majesty, in a reedy voice
never before heard by his subjects, proclaimed to the 7,000
athletes and officials assembled from 58 nations—six morethan the 1936 event in Berlin—“I hereby declare the openingof the 12th Olympiad!” The stadium reverberated with a chorus of “Banzai!” cheers.

THE MARATHON, SCHEDULED FOR Sept. 29—the final day of
the track and field events—would probably have followed a42.195km route from the north exit of Komazawa stadium
to what is now Kan-nana Dori at Daitabashi and making the
mid-point turn around in the vicinity of Inokashira park.
Three existing facilities still in use date back to the planning stages of the 1940 Olympics: Meiji Jingu stadium in
Shibuya Ward, Baji Koen (Equestrian Park) in Setagaya Ward,and the Boating Course on the north bank of the Arakawa
River in Toda City, Saitama. The Equestrian Park, a part of the
Yoga district of Tamagawa Village, was actually established tocelebrate the birth of the new crown prince on Dec. 23, 1933.
Prior to then, no civilian equestrian facility existed in Japan.
The site of a golf course at Komazawa in Setagaya Ward wasmeant to be converted into an Olympic venue and to celebrate
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Let the games begin . . .
. . . or not. Opposite, a modernist Olympic towerplanned for Komazawa Park that didn’t get built.
(A tower did get built in the park for the 1964
Games.) Left, a woman presents the Games’
logo made from pearls.
Jimmu’s ascension, but never got past
the blueprint stage. (It was eventuallydeveloped for use by the 1964 games,and some of the facilities, now part ofKomazawa Park, are still used for various sporting events.)
Meanwhile, unfortunately, the international situation was going from bad
to worse. The sequence of events that
led to the end of the 1940 games began
on July 7, 1937, when Japanese andChinese troops clashed at the Marco Polo Bridge southwest of Beijing.
Three months later the Japanese government established the“National Spiritual Mobilization Movement” as a part of controls on civilian organizations, including organized sports. As
the flames of war rose and spread in China, the US and othercountries began threatening a boycott.
Faced with a possible forfeiture, Japan backed out. A day
after the July 14 announcement to the media, a vice minister of health and welfare curtly notified Tokyo Mayor Ichita
Kobashi in writing that that “While it had been desirable
for the 12th Olympiad to be held . . . current circumstances
require full physical and mental effort be devoted to achieving objectives . . . and thus the games are to be halted.” The
IOC’s first reaction was to transfer the games to Helsinki; butwith the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939, the1940 Olympics were cancelled for good.
SO, INSTEAD OF THE glitter of the Olympics, Japanese sports
fans were treated instead to the “Far Eastern ChampionshipGames,” which commenced in Tokyo on June 3, 1940 as arather pathetic replacement. About 700 athletes represented
the seven participants: Japan, the Philippines, China, Manchukuo, Mongolia, Thailand and Hawaii. (The Hawaiian contingent was made up of ethnic Japanese). The 17 events werespread between June 6-9 in Tokyo and June 13-16 in Nara andHyogo prefectures.
Aside from the loss of face, the drain on the Tokyo andnational finances was considerable. An article titled “Howmuch was wasted by cancellation of the Olympics?” thatappeared in the Sept. 1, 1938 issue of Hanashi magazine,
produced a rough calculation. These included the sendingof delegations to Los Angeles and Berlin, ¥1.5 million; promotional outlays by Tokyo City, ¥3.5 million (Helsinki actually outspent Tokyo in a losing cause, paying the equivalentof between ¥4 to ¥5 million.) Setting up of the preliminary
office in on the 4th floor of the newly constructed South
Manchurian Railway Building in Toranomon, budgeted atover ¥3 million in 1937 and ¥4.5 million in 1938, of which
only four months were utilized, so perhaps ¥130,000. Another ¥1 million was said to have gone into advertising and public relations activities. All together, the total outlay must havereached a staggering amount.
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had hopes tofollow up on
Berlin, whereexperimental
TV broadcasting had been
introduced, toharness its own
technology for coverage of the games.
Private businesses also
suffered financially. Tokyo in
1938 had only 1,955 hotel and ryokan
rooms deemed suitable for foreign
visitors. Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel had
issued additional shares of stock tofund a new 8-story wing, to be erectedadjacent to its 280-room Frank Lloyd
Wright edifice that opened in 1923—
and the new wing would have boosted
its total rooms to 500. The project was
terminated. Designers were alreadyconcerned that with steel and concrete being diverted to the war effort,
its construction would have been next
to impossible.
More tragic than financial losses of course was the sacrifice ofhuman lives, as many of Japan’s mostacclaimed Olympians did not survive
the war. 1936 pole vaulting bronze
medalist Sueo Oe died during the invasion of the Philippines, and swimming
medalist Shigeo Arai died in combat
in Burma. Other casualties included
swimmers Kiichi Yoshi, a pilot who
was shot down, Yasuhiko Kojima, who
perished in a banzai charge in Okinawa and Tomikatsu Amano, who went
missing in action. The most famousof all, perhaps, was equestrian Baron
Takeichi Nishi. An army colonel, he isbelieved to have committed suicide on
Iwo Jima on March 22, 1945.
If you feel like mingling with theghosts of disappointed Olympic fansfrom eight decades ago, you mightwant to stroll along a lonely section of
Kaigan Dori in Minato Ward, where,
sandwiched between the Haneda
Monorail on the west and the Rainbow Bridge on the east stands Goshikihashi—the “five-color bridge”—
named for the 1940 Olympics thatnever was. ❶Mark Schreiber currently writes the“Big in Japan” and “Bilingual” columns for
the Japan Times.
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Club NewsIN MEMORIAM

AP PHOTO/WONG MAYE-E

The Tokyo Olympics cont’d

Eric Talmadge remembered
THE FCCJ MEMORIAL GATHERING
for Eric Talmadge, AP’s North Korea
bureau chief, was held on Tuesday,
May 21. Eric, who died unexpectedly
in Yokohama in the previous week,
was a member of the Club for 18
years until 2016 and made a strong
contribution, especially to the Club’s
professional activities. He was 57.
The memorial event was attended
by about 40 people, including hiscolleagues and former colleagues at
AP, people working for other news
organizations, and his friends at FCCJ
and the Yokohama Country & Athletic
Club, where he enjoyed sports
activities, particularly bowling.
Since FCCJ President Peter Langan
was unable to attend the event due
to conflicting schedules, I was asked
to moderate the event. As a former
colleague of Eric’s at AP and a former
FCCJ president, I felt obliged andhonored to do so.
In front of the FCCJ banner, threeframed photos of Eric were set on
the table along with bouquets ofwhite flowers, including ones sent
by Kyodo News President Toru
Mizutani and YC&AC President
Sadao Hosogai. On both sides of thetable, about a dozen photos of Eric
were displayed on large clear panels.
A slide show played on a large screen
during the event.
Copies of the February 1995 issueof Number 1 Shimbun were also
placed on the table for attendants
to read and take home. The issue
featured Eric’s first-person reportof the Kobe earthquake which killed
about 6,400 people the previous
month. Its headline, by then editor
Pat Killen, read “Quake: Eric’s Walk
to Hell.”
Eric joined AP in Tokyo in 1988
after working for the Mainichi
Daily News. Having studied at
Sophia University, he was fluent inJapanese—with no accent. Since
then, he covered a wide range ofstories and events, including natural
disasters in Japan and Indonesia, war
in Afghanistan and five Olympics.
After serving as news editor at theTokyo bureau, he was named AP’s
bureau chief in North Korea in 2013.
John Daniszewski was vice president
for international news when AP
established the first Western news andphoto bureau in North Korea in 2012.
In comments published in an online
newsletter mainly for AP retirees, herecalled that while sketching out theparameter for operating, it was stilla gamble whether the bureau would
endure in the face of the country’s
deep suspicions and hostility toward
the West. He wrote:“Eric was a pioneer. It was Eric
who eventually fulfilled AP’s vision ofa normally functioning news bureau
in Pyongyang. [He] helped open the
doors for greater access for other news
organizations in North Korea, andeven perhaps prepared the ground forthe political and diplomatic openings
that have followed. His characteristics
included tact, patience, courtesy, deep
intellect, and an attitude of respectful
curiosity and empathy for others thatserved him well in his profession.
As a result of these, he slowly
broke down the considerable wallsthat exist for outsiders there. He
won trust among his hosts even as
he pressed them for information.
Eric widened access, was awardedrare interviews and managed totravel outside the capital to give AP’saudience a clearer view of lesser cities
and the countryside.”
Even after retiring from AP, I closely
followed his reporting from North
Korea and even used some of his news
reports as good examples in journalismclasses I taught at universities. He
kindly came to one of my classes at theTokyo University of Foreign Studies
as a guest speaker and talked about
international reporting.
Denis Gray, former Bangkok bureau
chief for 30 years and a legendary
AP foreign correspondent who also
served as president of the Foreign
Correspondents’ Club of Thailand on
three occasions, sent a note for the
memorial occasion.
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On the scene
A May 2010 photoof Eric Talmadge
in Bangkok,
Thailand, during
clashes between
anti-government
protesters and Thai
soldiers.

“Much has rightly been written
about Eric’s pioneering achievementon the North Korean story. But
this should not be overshadowedby his ability to wonderfully
execute an extremely wide range ofassignments—from armed conflict tonatural disasters to sports.
ET, as he was often called,graphically chronicled the aftermathof the great Asian tsunami as we
flew out each day from a US aircraft
carrier to the utterly devastated coastof Indonesia’s Aceh province. He wasalways an enthusiastic and tirelessmember of the AP teams that covered
regional sports events across Asia.
In those days, following the Spielberg
movie, he was invariably greeted eachmorning with, ‘ET, have you called
home yet?’”Eric Talmadge was a no-nonsense
man with a dry sense of humor, which
I liked very much. Eric Prideaux,a former AP newsman who joined
the international news agency afterworking for the Japan Times, shared theFCCJJULY 2019

following episode some time ago while
I was with AP:
Prideaux lived in the Zushi area on
Miura Peninsula, southwest of Tokyo. A
nearby convenience store was robbed,
and the suspect armed with a knife wasat large in the neighborhood. He was
supposed to leave home for work, but
he did not want to leave his wife andtheir small baby alone at home until
the suspect was caught by police. So
Prideaux called Talmadge in the AP
office, explained the situation and said
he would be late.
Talmadge’s response was: “That’s thebest excuse I’ve ever heard.”
Joe Coleman, former AP bureau
chief in Tokyo who now is a journalism
professor at Indiana University, also
sent a touching personal note for the
memorial event.
“I worked closely with Eric for morethan 10 years. He always had my back.
Eric helped me get to Tokyo in the firstplace, and he supported me throughout

my time in Japan. Together, we covered
earthquakes and elections, financial
crises and even an oil spill, and wecheered each other on to some of ourbest work. For this I am forever grateful.
But Eric was more than a work-mate.
We shared meals and holidays in eachother’s home; our kids played together;our spouses are friends. We climbed
Mount Fuji. We even shared the ultimate
ET experience: bowling. He won.
What I remember now is his
generosity and decency and aremarkable sensitivity—concealed bywhat appeared to be a tough exterior—that enabled him to earn people’s trust
and tell their stories with great insight.”
Members of Eric’s family were toattend the event, but unfortunately
his widow, Hisako, did not feel wellso that they decided to stay home—quite understandable under suchcircumstances. We conveyed ourmessages and sent photos of the eventto her later.
We will miss him.

– Kazuo Abiko15

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At
the
Club

CLUB DIARY DATE“WE TEND TO ONLY SEEREPORTING ON THE LEGALISSUES OF HUGE SCANDALS, AND
NOT THE MORE COMMON LEGALISSUES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE A
WIDER IMPACT ON PEOPLE.
THERE’S A LACK OF DEDICATEDREPORTING ON EVERYDAY
LEGAL ISSUES AND THAT
Tina Saunders, director of Temple
MEANS THERE’S A LACK
University Law School, Japan
OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
Campus, “Journalism and Justice:
ABOUT THEM.”
Legal Reporting in Japan,” May 15

Lens craft

The art of love making
Japan’s rubber goods-maker Okamoto
annouces a ukiyo-e-themed “Design
Condom” in Tokyo, June 3.
by Yoshikazu Tsuno

Hi, flyer
A stage performer on her breakwaves at a passenger jet just before
it lands at Haneda Airport.
by Albert Siegel

Taking a fall
An indoor-skydiving training sessionin FlyStation’s vertical wind tunnel,
Koshigaya, June 13.
by Tomohiro Ohsumi
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FCCJ Classical Concert

Spain andpiano:
a trip withDon Quixote
Azumi Nishizawa
The FCCJ is proud to welcome
the extraordinary pianist
Azumi Nishizawa in a program ofclassical music with a dominantly
Spanish theme.

At
the
Club

“I WOULDN’T SAY I’M RICH.
REMEMBER I WENT INTOBANKRUPTCY AT THE SAMETIME AS MT. GOX.
I’VE LOST EVERYTHING FROMTHAT TIME, AND BEEN HELDIN DETENTION FOR A YEAR.
WHEN I CAME OUT I HADNOTHING, AND I HAD TOREBUILD EVERYTHINGFROM ZERO.”

7/17

Based in Granada, Spain, Azumi
maintains an active internationalschedule of performances and isrenowned for her interpretationsof Spanish music.
Tickets including sit-down dinnerand one drink are: ¥9,000 (plus tax)
Mark Karpelés, former CEOof Mt. Gox, June 5

Reservations via the front desk:03-3211-3161

At
the
Club

“ONE REASON FOR THE TRADEIMBALANCE BETWEEN THE
US AND CHINA IS THAT THE
SALARIES OF WORKERS IN
CHINA IS SO LOW.
SO WHY DOESN’T THE US
INCLUDE SOMETHING ABOUT
THAT ISSUE—THE HUMAN
Wang Dan, former student
RIGHTS OF THE LABORERS—
leader of the Tiananmen
IN THEIR DISCUSSIONS
democracy movement/Dialogue
WITH CHINA?”
China Director, May 29
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At
the
Club

TAISUKE YOKOYAMAFCCJ EXHIBITION

MEGUMI YOSHITAKE“THE JAPANESE ARE
EXTREMELY INNOVATIVE.
THEY TOOK ME, A
WASHED-UP PROFESSIONALFOOTBALL PLAYER, AND
THE NEXT THING YOU
KNOW, TURNED ME
INTO ONE OF THE
MOST POPULAR FIGHTERS
AND ENTERTAINERS ON
THE PLANET."

Bob Sapp, pro fighter andactor, June 7

SHISEI KUWABARA

At
the
Club

EIICHIRO SAKAMOTO“WASTE IS BECOMINGA PROBLEM FOR THE
WHOLE WORLD. IT ISGROSSLY UNFAIR FOR RICH
COUNTRIES TO SEND THEIR
PLASTIC WASTE TO POORERCOUNTRIES. WE’RE WORKINGHARD TO REDUCE OUR OWN
WASTE, WHICH IS ENOUGH OF
A PROBLEM. WE DON’T NEEDOTHER COUNTRIES’ WASTEJUST FOR ECONOMIC GAIN"

Oyako (Parents and Children)

A Group Photography Exhibition

Malaysian Prime Minister
Mahathir bin Mohamad,
May 30– Bruce Osborn, FCCJ Exhibition-Committee ChairJULY 2019

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Shigeru Matsudo, Sun Alba
Hideo Tomita, Refinitiv Japan K.K.
Natsuko Toda, Freelance
Tomoo Tajima, Tokai University Tokyo
Hospital
Shinichi Yasuda, Tama University
REINSTATEMENT (ASSOCIATE)

NEW IN THE LIBRARY
Japanese Womenin Science andEngineering:
History and
Policy Change
Naonori Kodate
and Kashiko
KodateRoutledge
Gift from
Naonori Kodate
The Ghost ofNamamugi:Charles Lenox Richardson and the AngloSatsuma War
Robert S.G. Fletcher
Renaissance Books
Gift from Publisher
A Discipline on Foot: Inventing Japanese
Native Ethnography, 1910-1945
Alan Christy
Rowman & LittlefieldTenno: Japans
Kejserdømme i
NutidenAsger Røjle
Christensen
TurbineGift from Asger
Røjle Christensen
The spirit of huci:
four seasons ofan Ainu woman
Keira Tomoko
Yay Yukar noMori

Oyako Day is held on the 4th Sunday of July, in celebration of the special bond between parents and children. This
month’s exhibition is a group show featuring photographs of families from all over the world. China, Myanmar,
Bangladesh, Vietnam, Mongolia, Syria, Ethiopia, Uruguay, the United States—even below the surface of the ocean—areamong the locations included in this show. The photographs were taken by such renowned cameramen as Kazuyoshi
Nomachi, Eiichiro Sakata, Shisei Kuwabara, Natsuki Yasuda, Ikuo Nakamura, Taishi Hirokawa and Herbie Yamaguchi.
Domestic violence between parents and children is a major topic in the news recently, highlighting the problems ofcommunicating and understanding that are becoming more prevalent in society. For newborn babies, parents are thefirst people they bond with, forming the base for all future relations. Building stronger foundations with our children
and the family is the first step to increasing respect, as well as to deepen the understanding between people fromdifferent backgrounds and cultures.
The Exhibition Committee would like to express our gratitude to all the photographers participating in this exhibition,and our appreciation to The Photographic Society of Japan for introducing photographers from other countries.

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NEW MEMBERS

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Performing the Great Peace: PoliticalSpace and Open Secrets in Tokugawa
Japan
Luke S. Roberts
University of Hawaii Press

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