New & Renewed Members CJST welcomes: John LeBlanc Susan Poaps Patrick Shea Yuji Suzuki Dan Overend Tomoko Okura Kenneth Takabe Karen Jackson Jonah Liebster Kevin Bailey Ruth Price Corinna Pask Mark Yamazaki Masao Okajima James Heron Len Silverman Kaoru Kamimura Craig D. Pho Susan Bigelow Ken Straiton Ken Watanabe Please check the address label on your CJST mailings. If the date in the upper, right-hand corner has passed or is near, your membership fees are due. Fees: Individual - $40 Student - $20 Family - $50 Senior - $20 Corporate - $350 (includes 10 designated members of your firm) Send your cheque, payable to "Canada-Japan Society of Toronto", to: Canada-Japan Society of Toronto Box 327, Station A Toronto, ON M5W 1G3 Tel. (416) 406-CJST Fax (416) 955-1842

CJST NEWS AND REVIEWS: What Have We Been Up To? Lots! CJST Supper Club - 31 January 1998 Fifteen sushi fiends (and Bruce!) headed for the monthly sushi tabehoudai (all you can eat!) at Sushiman Restaurant for a great evening of conversation and catching up. I think we've started a bit of a tradition by having a niji-kai at nearby McVeighs Pub! See images from this event Kim Shroeder is organizing the next tabehoudai outing on June 26. We'll let you know how that went in the next edition of CJST News. If you don't attend many CJST events, the Supper Club is a great place to meet your fellow CJSTers and indulge in some great food. AP Scotch Nosing - February 3 In Japan it was Setsubun, the day when people traditionally throw beans around their house saying "Oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi (Out with the devils, in with happiness)". On this side of the Pacific, however, there were other oni throwing back another kind of fuku. Together with the Asian Business Studies Program, the CJST hosted a joint Scotch Nosing evening at the Faculty Club at the University of Toronto. Ian Bain of Glenfiddich was on hand to show us the proper way to taste Scotch. As a wine drinker I am used to bouquets of "fruit" or "oak" and thus was a little startled to hear that the Scotch bouquets are called "peat" and "seaweed"! We tried four different scotches - the last being a $96, eighteen-year-old double malt. A special thanks to Michael Hartmann, CJST member and Director of the Asian Business Studies Program and Margaret Buckworth for helping organize the evening. Learn more from WhiskyWeb MB Wine Tasting - February 16 Continuing with the theme of evenings spent sipping wonderful drinks, Margaret Buckworth graciously managed to swing a deal for the CJST to be part a special evening of wine tasting at the Albany Club. About 20 CJSTers had a fabulous evening tasting great Canadian wines and eating delicious food. Huge thanks to Margaret, her father John Buckworth and the Albany Club for allowing us to partake in their decadent evening. AP Business Luncheon - March 26 Paul Sommerville, Chief Economist for RBC Dominion Securities, spoke to over 40 members of the CJST at the Toronto Board of Trade about the "Asian Earthquake". Paul provided an insight into the heart of Japan's current economic breakdown -- its banking system. Drawing on his depth of experience in the Japanese financial sector, he was able to describe several examples of why Japanese and other Asian banks have suffered some recent "heart attacks". The CJST looks forward to having more luncheons about this situation as it continues to evolve. Thanks to Fumiko Shiba for organizing this event. SR Read about More Events on Page 4 [Top of This Page]