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  • How to Make Your Product Scale Over the Pacific: Product, Market and Culture, with Japanese VC Zak Murase – Big in Japan

    As part of our Big in Japan speaker series, we welcome Zak Murase, who represents the noted Japanese venture capital firm Global Brain in Silicon Valley. Before joining Global Brain, Murase had a long career as a Product Manager at Sony, where he helped to adapt American products to the Japanese market and Japanese products…

    $10 – $25

  • “113 Project: Reclaiming Tohoku” Film Screening for Japan Earthquake Recovery

    It's been five years since the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in the Tohoku region of Japan, but the road to recovery continues. As a supporter, the Japan Society of Northern California invites you to join the JET Program Alumni Association of Northern California (JETAANC) to learn more about life in Tohoku, donate…

  • CAAMFEST 2016

    Join us for the following films at this year's CAAMFest, co-presented by the Japan Society of Northern California: Kampai: For the Love of Sake Directed by Mirai Konishi Japan / 2015 / 95 mins / English, Japanese with English subtitles / San Francisco Premiere Saturday, March 19 | 7:30 pm @ New People, San Francisco   Sake,…

  • Umeshu Tasting at Annual General Members' Meeting

    The Japan Society of Northern California is hosting a members-only gathering where you’ll have the opportunity to meet our board, staff and other members!  CHOYA will be showcasing their Umeshu, a traditional Japanese liqueur made from ume fruit.  They'll discuss the history, the process of how it's made and have samples for you to try. Come mingle and…

    FREE for Members

  • Finding Home, Finding Hope in Japan, with author Leza Lowitz

      As we approach a more unified world culturally and economically we begin to meet others from distant places, far from their native lands. Or we may be the travelers, ourselves. How can we be at home wherever we are in the world, especially when facing challenges, or when disaster strikes? In this inspiring talk,…

    $10 – $25

  • Book talk & signing with Lori Tsugawa Whaley

    Lori Tsugawa Whaley will be in San Francisco for a book signing of her novel, The Courage of a Samurai. The event will be held at Kinokuniya’s San Francisco bookstore, located at 1581 Webster Street. Japan Society is a co-sponsor for this event. A third generation Japanese American and a descendant of the Samurai Warrior,…

  • Why are Talented Young Japanese Flocking to San Francisco? – Big in Japan, with Eriko Sekiya

    Graduate of Keio University, worked at elite firms then started two companies of her own. Plus appearing on television and radio, and publishing several books including a bestseller. Eriko Sekiya was a well-known successful businessperson with everything going for her in Japan, but she gave it up to come to get a master’s degree at Stanford.…

    $15 – $20

  • Innovation Salon: Turning Hours to Dollars: Opportunities in the On-Demand Economy

    ATTENTION: NEW DATE, SPEAKER for the Innovation Salon: On-Demand Economy      Much has been written about the "solopreneur" - the modern virtual entrepreneur. Some call this the gig economy or 1099 economy or on-demand economy. In the US, all employment growth since 2000 has been in the 1099 or part-time sector, and services such as…

    $15 – $40

  • JAPAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE UPDATE – PANEL AND RECEPTION

    Stewardship in Japan: Resolution for Revolution The publication of Japan’s Corporate Governance Code in 2015 capped a long list of capital market revitalization efforts, including the introduction of a Stewardship Code. The Stewardship Code outlines the responsibilities of institutional investors to enhance the medium- to long-term investment return for their clients/beneficiaries through constructive engagement (dialogue) with…

    $20 – $40