Related Japan links in Michigan

Midwest Japan Seminar, http://www.asianstudies.msu.edu/MJS/
sometimes hosting the monthly event in Michigan

Japan Festival in Saginaw (September), http://www.japaneseculturalcenter.org/

Michigan-Japan Professionals Association, http://www.michiganjapan.org/
telephone at 517-507-5420 or email info@michiganjapan DOTorg

Sister cities, JapanKits for loan, Japanese Quizbowl

Annual Michigan Japanese Quiz Bowl for young people, www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/mjqb

Lending kits of artifacts for teachers, www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/japankit

Michigan sister cities in Shiga-ken, http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/sisterstate/

woodblock print Michigan artist

http://www.marybrodbeck.com/ is based in Kalamazoo and is working fall 2007 as Visiting Artist at the JCMU, Japan Center for Michigan Universities in Hikone (east coast of the country's biggest freshwater body of water, Lake Biwa).