Issue:
DESIGN AND JOURNALISM GO HAND-IN-HAND. How to get the story across? How to attract the reader to open the magazine, to read the article, to get an immediate visual summary of the story? And even just to entertain the reader. For No. 1 Shimbun – a magazine that not only contains excellent journalism, but is also partly aimed at a journalist readership – advice from a famous designer on the three rules for achieving good magazine design comes to mind: read the text, read the text and read the text. Each design is a conflation of the facts into a small poster, a concise summary – and an identity. The designs are not only the face of the publication, but play a part in being the face of the Club’s journalist membership.
– Andrew Pothecary
In the Main Bar and Masukomi Sushi, April 5 - May 9, 2014
MORGAN FISHER
The Saturday Nite Live! event continues to entertain members with an eclectic line-up of great musicians performing a wide variety of genres. Keyboard musician Morgan Fisher and his array of vintage electronic instruments made another appearance in March. His highly individualistic blend comes after years of playing with bands like Mott the Hoople, Queen and Yoko Ono, among others, and was a big hit among the full house audience.
THE SECOND ACT
A GLOBAL FILM VILLAGE: in the Club’s main bar after the screening of The Act of Killing: (from left) Karen Severns, Film Committee chair; Alison Klayman, director; and Colin Jones producer of Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry; Argentinian documentarians Patricio Lumini and Maria Sol Nakagama; Killing’s director Joshua Oppenheimer; and production assistant Shusaku Harada.
HANIF-SAN'S BIRTHDAY
THE MAIN BAR OF THE CLUB WAS redecorated for a special occasion last month: the birthday of bar major-domo Mohammed Hanif, who turned 62(ish) on March 14. Staff not only sported some custom-made T-shirts to mark the day but were able to share in a cake feast. We wish Hanif many more years keeping things running smoothly under his friendly eye.
NEW MEMBERS
ALFRED HOLMGREN spent a year freelancing while studying in Japan. He will remain in Tokyo as the games editor of Aftonbladet, Scandinavia’s biggest newspaper and website. He has been writing about video and computer games for Swedish newspapers and magazines since his days at high school, and is also the co-founder, co-editor and art director of Fienden, a sporadically published collection of long-form stories about gaming culture.
HIROYUKI SUGIYAMA is an editorial writer at the Yomiuri Shimbun. He was the paper’s correspondent in Hanoi, Vietnam from 1992 to 1993. He has also spent many years as the Yomiuri’s correspondent in Beijing, covering political and diplomatic news. He is the author of the book, Haou to Kakumei Chugoku Gunbatsushi 1915-1928, (“The History of the Chinese Military Clique 1915-1928”) published by Hakusuisha.
PROFESSIONAL/JOURNALIST
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Pauline Reich, Waseda University School of Law
Howard Ichiro Lim, Incredible Consulting Group
Kazuyoshi Abe, Abe Kazuyoshi Office
Naomi Hatakeyama, Doree Kami Japan Co., Ltd.
Katsura Endo, Hakone Museum of Photography
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Melanie Kohli, Nestle Japan Ltd.
Isao Hayashi, Sumito Co., Ltd.
Yasuhiro Danjo, Shiobara Golf Club
Kazuyuki Umezu, H+B Life Science
Mitsuru Ono, HABA Laboratories, Inc.
Hiroki Shibata, HABA Laboratories, Inc.
Tetsu Abe, Abe Chuko-Sho
Shiori Ito, Happycle Co., Ltd.
Masami Totani, Alpha Partners Law Office
Akiko Kawakatsu, Hibiya Station Law Office
Masanori Takaya, UBS Securities Japan Co., Ltd.
REINSTATEMENT (ASSOCIATE MEMBER)
Yukio Masuda, Mitsubishi Corporation
Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
Ogawa, Yoko; translated by Stephen Snyder Picador
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Kennedy, Paul Unwin Hyman Gift from Mr. Ichiro Hiwasaki
The Enigma of Japanese Power: People and Politics in a Stateless Nation
Wolferen, Karel Van Macmillan Gift from Mr. Ichiro Hiwasaki
My American Journey
Powell, Colin L.; with Joseph E. Persico Random House Gift from Mr. Ichiro Hiwasaki
Jack: Straight from the Gut
Welch, Jack; with John A. Byrne Warner Books Gift from Mr. Ichiro Hiwasaki
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Mandela, Nelson Macdonald Purnell Gift from Mr. Ichiro Hiwasaki
Photo Exhibition “Chronicling History of Postwar Japan with Photographs:” A News Agency as an Eyewitness
Japan Press Research Institute Japan Press Research Institute Gift from Mr. Takenori Fujita
