Tokyo, April 25, 2014, 10:00 am – 10:45 am Good morning from the Okura Hotel, where President Obama is bidding a formal farewell to the emperor and empress before departing for Seoul. The pool of correspondents was ushered to a…
Tokyo, Thursday, April 24, 2014,6:55 pm – 10:00 pm The president left the hotel at 6:55 pm to return to the Imperial Palace for the state dinner. The lamps of a bridge reflected on the moat as the motorcade climbed…
Tokyo, Thursday, April 24, 2014, 05:07 pm A 20 minute drive on emptied elevated highways took the motorcade to the Meiji Shrine which is surrounded by trees and was bathed in late afternoon sunlight. President Obama walked into the courtyard…
Tokyo, April 24, 2014, 3:00 pm – President Obama arrived at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) at 3 pm ======= (Background information provided by the White House) President Obama and Ambassador Caroline Kennedy will tour the National…
Tokyo, April 24,2014, 09:00 am – 2:00 pm The motorcade pulled away from the president’s hotel at 9:17 am headed for the Imperial Palace. The motorcade entered the Imperial Palace through an ornate gate and moved across an asphalt courtyard,…
+ April 23, 2014 in Japan Time + At 7:06 pm local time, President Obama disembarked from Air Force One at Haneda Airport and was greeted by a group of American and Japanese officials. The full list, per the White…
A picture drawn by a Honkawa Elementary school students in Hiroshima in the harrowing year after the atomic bombing of the city. Film “Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard” Sunday, Jan. 26, from 3:00 – 5:30 pm Unitarian Society of Santa…
Wall Street Journal, Saturday, January 18, 2014 Local Japan Elections Cast Shadow for Abe By Toko Sekiguchi TOKYO – Having won both parliamentary chambers last year, 2014 was supposed to be an election-free year for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe—at least…
Terasaki Foundation Winter 2013 Educational Tour to JAPAN December 15 – December 29, 2013 Application deadline: September 20 A once in a lifetime opportunity to explore Tohoku, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima, experience Japanese culture, attend fascinating lectures at…