The Annual General Meeting was held on 22 May 2008. A PowerPoint presentation was shown at the AGM which included reports by Committee Chairs and election of Management Committee and Auditors. To see the presentation, click here. We’re pleased to announce that the slate of nominees were elected with overwhelming approval. The AGM was well attended. There were no chairs left as you can see in the video.

To communicate about a talk about communication held by Martin van der Linden on 2008-02-14 in the DeshimaLounge at the Royal Dutch Embassy can best be credited correctly by a visual communication about it. Video can be seen here.

Beer, according to the Urban Dictionary is: “the reason why I get up in the morning and the reason I pass out at night.”

According to Jasper Momma of Heineken Japan, however, beer when consumed in moderate amounts is actually good for your health. Jasper, during his presentation, showed through a series of slides the history of Heineken and the history of beer in Japan. We were for example told that beer was introduced in Japan through the creation of beer following a recipe in a Dutch medical book. Jasper also touched upon the sales strategies of the 4 biggest Japanese brewers: Asahi, Kirin, Sapporo and Suntory. Showing us examples of commercials of these beer companies, we

The NCCJ management committee attended a farewell lunch with Auke Rottier on 18th April. Auke was in Japan for about two and a half years, representing DSM, as well as being a very active NCCJ board member. Patrick van Oppen presented the traditional sayonara gift, after which Auke gave a very good farewell speech, in [...]

Please tell us something about yourself?
Richard Canneman: I have been in Japan for almost four years. When I was a student of Informatics and Interface Design in the Netherlands I started my own IT company which became successful, I sold it and decided to give Japan a try.