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Dear YCN members!

On Wednesday March the 26th we have something very special in store for you.

As most of you will be well aware of, we organize a get-together called “Little Saturday” or “Lill-Lördag” the first Wednesday of every month. In March though, Heartland is closed for renovations, so Little Saturday is canceled. But this fits our plans perfectly.

Last year in March YCN and the Swedish Chamber of Commerce jointly arranged the first ever Big Saturday. It became a highly appreciated event at restaurant Africa in Daikanyama. We have been urged to make a “sequel”. This event replaces both the YCN Little Saturday and the SCCJ club evening.

We would like to offer you a unique chance to interact in the wider Swedish community in Japan crossing generations and backgrounds while enjoying finger foods, drinks and atmosphere of popular restaurant Fujimamas in Harajuku-Omotesando.

In short, we offer you the second (annual?) :

BIG SATURDAY

(on a Wednedsay!!!!)

Sign up: Send name/names of attending, plus a cellphone number to bigsaturday2008@yahoo.com

Date: Wednesday the 26th of March 2008

Time: 19.00-21.00, Reception from 18.30. Welcome Skål at 19.10. Please respect the starting time if possible.

Price: 4000 yen

Service: Light finger foods and ALL you can drink for the first two hours (after which drinks will be paid separately)

Angle: A unique opportunity to network across age groups, generations and backgrounds in the great environment of the Swedish-Japanese community in Tokyo.

Place: Popular restaurant “Fujimamas” at Harajuku-Omotesando 6-3-2 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku. http://www.fujimamas.com/index.html

Where is that?

I sincerely hope to meet you at this event, bound to be the kick-off for the Swedish/Japanese spring of 2008, be there or be square…

Jonatan Wik, King Spider

There are some guys from Nokia and Ericsson that have arranged to play Innebandy also known as Floorball or Unihoc. They are looking for more participants, please see message below.

Floorball in Meguro

3/14 (Fri) 18-21 @ Chuo Tai-iku kan, Nishi-Koyama
3/18 (Fri) 18-21 @ Chuo Tai-iku kan, Nishi-Koyama
4/8 (Tue) 18-21 @ Kumin Center Meguro

Fee will be between 500 or 1000 yen depending on number of participants
(hall rental is 7300/7700 yen). Any money left over will be used for
buying more sticks, covering up for cancellations, and/or a party at the
end of the season.

Please sign up for the mailing list for future announcements by sending
a blank email to mailto:floorball-subscribe@topica.com

I have only 7 sticks, 5-6 balls and two goals so please let me know if
you have any sticks. Some of my colleagues have their own sticks, though.

More on floorball:
http://www.salibandy.net/liitto/default.asp?kieli=826
http://www.floorball.org/

Best regards,

Johan Bergquist
johan.bergquist@nokia.com

Of all forgotten old search engines, Excite has come up with an absolutely amazing service, which translates the complete webpage from Japanese to English. This means that you, without the need to learn s single Kanji, have the power to browse Japanese webpages. First they invented the wheel and now this…..

Instructions:

Go to this page: http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/
1) Type the address to the Japanese webpage you want to browse in English.
2) Change the bullet in the radio button to “Japanese to English”

3) Click on the yellow “Go” button

Not only does the page appear in English, you can continue to browse around on the page and the translator will continue to work.

For me, a new world opened up. Pages I have tested and work well are:

www.yodobashi.com
www.biccamera.com

Please let us know how this works for you and which web pages you recommend.

Many thanks to Stefan who let us know about this.

6th of February as usually at Heartland from 20:30

For map, click here.

We have now added some pictures. Check the “events” page above or click here.

Dear Members!
It is soon time to celebrate Christmas again and can it be better than to do it among (YCN) friends? This year we will head out to a clubhouse in Yoga and enjoy a nice atmosphere and good food. Please bring your family and friends for the last YCN event 2007.

Optional present:

This year we will have the chance to exchange Christmas presents with each other. For you who want to bring a present please buy something nice for around 1000 JPY and the exchange will be done during the evening.

Pickup at Yoga Station:

For you who want help to go to Yoga Club please come to the ticket barrier at 18:35 and we will go together. Yoga station is 14 minutes from Shibuya.The event costs 4900 JPY and in this price buffet and free drinks are included.

Menu
Glögg and ginger cookies
Janssons, meatballs, prinskorv
pie and other snack meal
Snaps and other alcoholic and soft drinks

Date: 15 of December (Saturday)
Time: 19:00-21:00
Access: http://www.ei-publishing.co.jp/yoga-club/access.htm

To sign up for this event please send a mail to: julfest2007@hotmail.co.jp
Please give the following information:
Name
No of persons.
Maximum 80 people can join this event.

Follow-up party:

After the Christmas party we will go to some club in Shibuya. For you who are in for a long night please join.

Attention: We will order the food in advance so if you will not be able to come please inform us no later then one week before the event or we will need to charge you for the event even if you are not present.

Looking forward to seeing you!
Best regards,
Joakim Kautto
YCN

Experiance the bitter cold Scandinavia in the middle of Tokyo! YCN has made a really generous deal with the ABSOLUT ICEBAR. For 2800 JPY you can enter and drink how much you like. Hope you wont miss this fine event!

Date: 24 of November

Time: 19:00-21:00

To sign up send a mail to Asahara Takushi: taxi_0426@hotmail.com

Access: www.icebartokyo.com

You are all very welcome to this great social event on September 21, celebrating 15 successful years for the Swedish Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan.

At the SCCJ Royal Luncheon in March, we highlighted the continuous growth and profitability for Sweden-Japan related business since the founding of SCCJ. Now we would like to underscore the social side of the Chamber by throwing an anniversary dinner in the form of an Original Swedish Crayfish Party.

It will be a joint event between SCCJ and YCN and we can promise delicious crayfish and other seafood, funny hats, moon lanterns, snaps songs and - of course - a wonderful, relaxed and high spirited atmosphere all evening.

Please join with your spouse, colleagues and near friends and make the party both happy and fun and something to remember for another 15 years!

Date: Friday, September 21st
Place: Happo-en in Shirokanedai, map at: http://www.happo-en.com/access/index.html
Time: Registration starts at 18:30
Opening at 19:00
Cost: JPY10,000/p.p. at the door

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Sign-up form by Wednesday, September 12th
(Neither registration nor cancellation will be accepted after the above date)

Name:
Organisation:
No. of persons:

Send your registration to sccj@twics.com
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Your active sign-up is very welcome!!

Warm regards,
Mats Bruzæus
Chairman, Program Committee

Hope you have had a nice summer and we hope to see you during the fall and winter at lots of events. Please pardon this late announcement and hope that we will be a big crowd tomorrow at Heartland.

As always we start from 20:30 and we gather in the VIP room on the right hand side.

See you tomorrow at Heartland, Roppongi Hills tomorrow (5th of September) from 20:30.

Click here for more information

As some of you might know, the Tokyo Motor Show 2007 will be held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba city from October 27 until November 11. In this regard, Volvo Trucks are looking for some female Scandinavian companions at the Volvo Trucks booth during this period. (Volvo prefers those who are higher than 165cm.)

• Venue: Makuhari Messe (2-1 Nakase Mihama-ku Chiba-city)
• Date: Oct 23rd (Tue) to Nov 11th (Fri) (including the rehearsal day)
• Business Outline: Reception in General
• Pay: 20,000 per day
• Lunch: Meal tickets provided
• Uniform: Provided

If you are interested, please send resume with photo via email to h.arimoto@cnl.co.jp