Upcoming Events

Canada Day Event in Osaka

  • July 01 (Fri) Registration Closed
  • 09:30 ~ 11:30
  • Ramada Hotel Osaka
  • 6,500 (member) 8,500 (guest) yen

KCBA and CJSK (Canada Japan Society of Kansai) in cooperation with the CCCJ will jointly celebrate Canada’s 144th birthday on Friday, July 1, 2011 at the Ramada Hotel in Osaka.

Please block your calendars for the evening to celebrate the strong Kansai-Canada relationship while doing what Kansai business people do best, networking! In addition to a delicious buffet dinner, there will be great entertainment and fabulous prizes.

Canada Day Event in Tokyo

  • July 01 (Fri) Registration Closed
  • 09:00 ~ 14:30
  • bierVana
  • 2,000 yen (member and guest)

July 1st is Canada's 144th birthday. Come join the CCCJ at the most Canadian event of the year. This event will be held at bierVana in Akasaka-Mitsuke. Enjoy a fine selection of beers, wines and food.

Stop Selling, Start Managing!

  • June 23 (Thu) Registration Closed
  • 03:00 ~ 05:00
  • Shangri-La Hotel
  • 6,000 yen (members)

How many of your sales managers really manage and develop their subordinates in an organized and structured manner? Unfortunately, most sales managers share the following common characteristics:
- Superb selling ability, but are lacking fundamental management and training skills, because they have never been taught how to manage
- Promoted because they were the best sales rep or because “it was about time for them to become managers”
- They received little or no management training pre or post promotion

ALB Japan Law Awards

  • June 22 (Wed) Registration Closed
  • 09:30 ~ 12:30
  • Ritz Carlton Tokyo
  • See details from link below

Welcome to ALB Japan Law Awards, the premier awards event for Japan's legal industry.

Former Japanese Ambassador to Canada Kensaku Hogen to address CCCJ members

  • June 16 (Thu) Registration Closed
  • 03:00 ~ 05:00
  • Aoyama Robbin's Club
  • 3,750 (member) 4,250 (guest) yen

It is perhaps fitting that the final official posting of Ambassador Kensaku Hogen’s distinguished diplomatic career was as Japan’s Ambassador to Canada from 2001 to 2005, a country for which he had developed great affection and admiration.  It was his second tour of duty posted in Ottawa during a stellar diplomatic and governmental career that took him around the world and back including being assigned as;  the UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information under Kofi Annan, head of the Press and Information Department at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C.

Giving Back to Japan – Joint Chamber Event

Relief and Reconstruction for Tohoku and Japan

Introduction
You are invited to a special joint chamber event tailored to help companies respond effectively to Japan’s worst natural disaster in modern history. It will give you a better perspective as to what partnerships bring the greatest benefits.

There will be presentations from a range of organisations engaged in relief efforts and reconstruction. A networking buffet will follow with an opportunity to communicate directly with the presenters and fellow participants.

Presentation by a Nuclear and Radiation Specialist

  • April 14 (Thu) Registration Closed
  • 04:00 ~ 06:30
  • Embassy of Canada
  • No Charge

Paul Thoppil invited CCCJ Members & their spouses to an evening presentation on Thursday, April 14 at the Embassy of Canada in Japan by a Nuclear and Radiation Specialist from the Canadian Government Department of National Defence.

Breakfast with Hon. Jim Prentice

  • March 23 (Wed) to March 24 (Thu) Cancelled
  • 23:30 ~ 00:30
  • Imperial Hotel
  • 5,000 (member) | 6,000 (guest) yen

BREAKFAST WITH Hon. JIM PRENTICE

VICE CHAIRMAN CIBC, AND FORMER SENIOR MINISTER IN HARPER GOVERNMENT

Canada’s Economic prospects

Introduction

The Readiness is all ...

  • March 16 (Wed) Cancelled
  • 03:00 ~ 07:30
  • Cancelled

Please note this event has been postponed. The details will be announced.

After almost a quarter of a century in post, Ian de Stains is retiring as Executive Director of the BCCJ. Join us for a luncheon designed to celebrate his tenure and to wish him well in his future endeavours.

As a BBC producer-presenter Ian was seconded to NHK in 1976. For four years he worked on radio and television programmes designed to introduce Japan and all things Japanese to the outside world. A number of these programmes were nominated for—and some won—international awards.

Real Mothers of Japan

  • March 10 (Thu) Registration Closed
  • 09:30 ~ 11:30
  • Australian Embassy B2 Reception
  • 5,250 (member) 6,900 (guest) yen

Over the last six years the McCann PULSE program of continuous investigation into people’s lives has focused on understanding the younger generations of mothers in Japan. Volume 7 of the “Real Mothers” study has just been launched and looks in-depth at the social media usage, recession buying habits and views of the future of Japan’s mothers of children fifteen years old and under. The event will look in detail at how today’s generation of mothers got where they are, what they think of their lives, their families and their purchase decisions.

Moosehead Beers for Books

  • February 24 (Thu) Registration Closed
  • 10:00 ~ 13:00
  • bierVana
  • 1,000 yen (suggested donation)

Canada's oldest independent brewer (along with its Japanese importer) is launching Moosehead Lager, Pale Ale and Cracked Canoe in Japan. Canadians and Japanese fans of Canada are invited to come celebrate with a fun Beers for Books event on Thursday February 24 from 7 PM - 10 PM at BierVana in the Prudential Tower near Akasaka Mitsuke.

The Canada-themed night will include Canadian highlights on the big screen, a Canada quiz for prizes, and Canadian BEER--all for a great cause with Beers for Books. Sounds like fun, eh?

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