Japan America Society of Vermont

June 28 - Annual Meeting

The JASV annual meeting will be held on Sunday, June 28th, from 12 noon until 4 PM at the Sand Bar State Park in Milton. This is a potluck event; please bring something to share. The JASV will provide soft drinks and pay the entrance fee - mention this at the gateway booth. Bring your favorite summer chair, umbrella, Frisbee, and beach gear. Pets are not permitted.

Directions: The Sand Bar State Park is located on Route 2 at the east-end of the Causeway between Milton and the Islands. From I-89, take exit #17 (Champlain Islands), and drive 4 miles north on U.S. 2)

Upcoming Events:

Vermont Reads When the Emperor was Devine. The Vermont Humanities Foundation's Vermont Reads program is a community reading project based on Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor Was Divine, the evacuation experience of a Japanese-American family during World War II. Otsuka’s novel takes an unflinching and unsentimental look inside a stark shadow of America’s past: the Japanese-American internment camps. The program will be sponsoring events though out the state. For more information, visiti http://www.vermonthumanities.org/index_files/vtreads.htm

Language Classes, Fall 2009. Watch our website or mailing list. (To join our mailing list, send email to info@jasv.org)

Tsukimi 2009, Our annual moon viewing party will be held on Saturday, October 3rd in Burlington's Oak Ledge Park. This will be the evening of the day before the full moon, an auspicious evening for viewing.

Bakuretsucon 2009: Thursday, October 29th - Sunday, November 1st, 2009. The Green Mountain Anime Convention will be held at the Hampton Inn-Conference Center, Colchester. See http://bakuretsucon.org/

News From Tottori (鳥取ニューズ）

Because of precautions necessitated by the H1N1 flu pandemic, the planned summer events supported by our friends at the Tottori International Exchange Foundation and the Tottori Prefectural Government have been unfortunately postponed. Both the Mingei of Tottori (鳥取の民芸), exhibition of traditional and contempory crafts planned for the Burlington Firehouse Gallery and the two crafts workshops planned for Yestermorrow have been postponed. We look forward to meeting with Makoto Taniguchi and Hiroshi Ooeh in the near future.

Matsuri 2009 Report:

Most of us feel the attendance may be our best ever. We certainly had very successful vendors and demonstration tables. Everyone seemed very busy and at the same time very pleased.

The new Consul General in Boston, Masaru Tsuji, told me several times how pleased and impressed he was with Matsuri. We are honored to have Mr. Tsuji and his staff, from Boston, attend Matsuri.

Channel 5, WPTZ, the NBC affiliate based in Plattsburgh, Burlington, and White River Jct., conducted interviews with Mr. Tsuji and me and had several shots around Matsuri as did Fox-44 TV in Burlington.

Thank you to all who helped with the clean up and the trip back to the JASV office and storage room. We can all feel proud of the efforts by so many Board Members, JASV Members, our many Volunteers, Performers and most of all, Guests.

Matsuri 2009 Tenny Fund Raffle Prize Reports

The JASV Office has a collection of forms useful for Japanese citizens residing in the United States; these include

Zairyutodoke : 在留届
Zairyuhennkoutodoke : 在留変更届
Passport Application for 5 Year use：パスポート申請用紙（５年用）
Passport Application for 10 year use：パスポート申請用紙（１０年用）

Board Meetings: Second Wednesday of the month - 6:30 pm The JASV board meetings are in the JASV office at 29 Ethan Allen Avenue. Colchester. All are welcome.

If you would like to receive updates on the JASV calendar by email, you can join our Yahoo mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jasv/ or by sending email to info@jasv.org. If you find computers and Yahoo difficult, you can subscribe very simply, by sending a request to info@jasv.org

If you know of any Japan-related events in Vermont, please send them to JASV at info@jasv.org.

The Japan-America Society of Vermont