Japanese Band - Boredoms - coming to The 9:30 Club

It has come to our attention that The Boredoms, a Japanese Indie Band, will be coming to the 9:30 Club on April 3. Below is a write up about the band…

BOREDOMS

It’s safe to say that no other band out there sounds like Japanese noise collective Boredoms, whose music has no limit to the elements that are mixed in. Within their twenty years, they have made music influenced by and including tribal drumming, screaming and a barrage of electronic effects. Catch noise rock’s best kept secret on a rare tour of the U.S. when they stop by 9:30 Club for a performance that will be anything but boring.

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3月3日：温暖化と洞爺湖サミットをテーマにしたイベント （ブルッキングス研究所）

[Climate Change and the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit]

Monday, March 3, 2008, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC

As the international community continues to seek a sensible and a workable multilateral architecture for addressing climate change, the Japanese government has declared climate change a top priority as it prepares to host the G8 Summit in Hokkaido in July. On March 3, the Brookings Institution will host the top Japanese and U.S. climate change advisors for a discussion on their governments’ respective policy initiatives. The speakers will explore options for a new international framework on climate change and discuss the role of the Hokkaido Summit as a critical milestone in ongoing climate policy negotiations. Speakers include Mutsuyoshi Nishimura, special advisor to the Japanese Cabinet on Climate Change; James Connaughton, chairman, White House Council on Environmental Quality; and Warwick McKibbin, nonresident senior fellow, The Brookings Institution Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Carlos Pascual will provide introductory remarks and moderate the panel discussion. After the program, the panelists will take audience questions. To RSVP, please call the Brookings Office of Communications at 202.797.6105, or visit http://onlinepressroom.net/brookings/new

３月６日 日本財団による講演

You are cordially invited to the Wilson Center March 6 to hear a presentation by Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of the Nippon Foundation, WHO Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination and Japanese Ambassador for the Human Rights of People Affected by Leprosy .

THE ASIA PROGRAM, THE AFRICA PROGRAM, and THE GLOBAL HEALTH INITIATIVE OF THE WOODROW WILSON CENTER PRESENT:

LEPROSY and HUMAN RIGHTS

Speaker: Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman, Nippon Foundation, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, and Japanese Ambassador for the Human Rights of People Affected by Leprosy

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008 2:00 - 3:30 P. M. 5th FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM

As president and subsequently as chairman of The Nippon Foundation, Japan’s largest charitable foundation, Yohei Sasakawa has played a leading role in promoting public interest activities by Japan’s private sector. Under his leadership, the Foundation has focused many of its efforts on the treatment and eventual elimination of the scourge of leprosy. Sasakawa has also advocated that leprosy be approached not simply as a medical issue but as a social issue involving human rights concerns.

本日の講演内容

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Rents in the Social Fabric: The Darker Side of Japanese Society

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1462&categoryid=8EFAECE9-9236-B5FB-398190195400EB5B&fuseaction=topics.events_item_topics&event_id=368261

Rents in the Social Fabric: The Darker Side of Japanese Society
Wednesday, February 20 2008, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. at Woodrow Wilson Center
Speakers: Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Williams College; David Ambaras, North Carolina State University; Mary Brinton, Harvard University; Michael Zielenziger, University of California, Berkeley