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Hello Nijubashi!

On Nov. 22 the the FCCJ held a Club-warming party in our new Marunouchi premises.

Performance art Above, the Fuka Daikoh drummers from Gunma
entertainer Pikotaro
Smashing Left-to-right: Club treasurer Willem Kortekaas, Sandra Mori, Director-at-Large Khaldon Azhari and Club Secretary Daniel Hurst open the sake, provided by Born Saké – flanked by the night’s Noh performers Otomasa Sakai and Otoharu Saka, below).

Welcome speeches

by Sandra Mori (who has been with the Club at all its premises) and behind her Club Events Committee Chair, Akihiko Tanabe. Below, Tetsuo Yuasa, Senior Executive Officer, of Mitsubishi Estate

Dance floored

with music provided by the Moonshots

Meeting

Pikotaro meets Club Exhibition Chair Bruce Osborn and his wife Yoshiko; Stirling Elmendorf, Norman Tolman, Kumiko Elmendorf and Club GM Marcus Fishenden

Cheers

Above, Mew Iwabuchi, Grady Loy and Phoebe Amoroso; above right, Masanobu Tsukagoshi, Kuniko Isa, Milton Isa, Mikuni, Katsu and Shozo Tsukagoshi; right, Chris Lawson, Reiko Sugioka, Kathryn Wortley, Yuntao Fan and Daniel Hurst.

ALL PHOTOS BY ALBERT SIEGEL