U.S.-Japan Relations Is Topic of Lecture
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 16, 2005
Joe Wills
530-898-4143
U.S.-Japan Relations Is Topic of Lecture
A lecture by Makoto Yamanaka, Honorable Consul General of Japan, will be held Thursday, Dec. 8, at 1 p.m. in the BMU Auditorium at California State University, Chico.
The lecture, titled “U.S.-Japan Relations: Economic, Political and Cultural,” is free and open to the public. After the lecture and a question-and-answer session, hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served.
Consul General Yamanaka will be the highest-ranking Japanese diplomat ever to visit Chico. He began his term as the consul general of Japan in San Francisco in March 2004. He graduated from Keio University and joined Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1974. He was posted to the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., in 1977, after graduating from Amherst College in Massachusetts.
For more information, contact CSU, Chico’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at 898-5388.
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