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Screening of the Documentary Paper Lanterns and a Talk by Ambassador John Roos
The Japan Society of Northern California’s screened the documentary, Paper Lanterns, on February 16 at the offices of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati to a sell-out crowd. As explained by…
Robert Cole of U.C. Berkeley on the Japanese Software Industry
What went wrong and what can we learn from it? At a Japan Society program on February 15 at the San Francisco offices of Morrison Foerster, UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus…
Ashes to Gold: How the 1964 Olympics Transformed Japan and Lessons for 2020
News icon Dan Rather headlined an all-star panel on December 8 at the de Young Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco to talk about the remarkable story of the…
"Award of Honor" Gala
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