audio recordings - 40th Anniversary ceremony

Commemorating 40 years of sister-state relations between the state of Michigan and Shiga prefecture, several honored guests spoke.


[hotlink to audio recording; unlinked names are awaiting permission to put online]



State Superintendent of Education, Mr. Michael Flanagan.
Superintendent of Education for Shiga-ken, Mr. SUEMATSU Kyoiku-cho.
Alumnist of the JCMU program (Japan Center for Michigan Universities), Mr. Brian Forest.
Alumnist of the Michigan-Shiga High School Exchange, Mr. Mario James.
Student representative of the Science High School exchange, Mr. TAKAHASHI Wataru.

40th anniversary of Michigan-Shiga sister statehood

August 20 welcome ceremony AND the August 25 banquet are open to the public.
Details online at http://japanlore.googlepages.com/mi-sisterstate

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).