June 11-12, 2009, Kumamoto - With a “Gender Free Society” a big issue currently under discussion in Kumamoto, Principal Officer Carrington was invited to speak at Kumamoto Gakuen University on June 11 and Mifune Town on June 12 on the topic of “Realizing Your Dream and Balancing Work and Family.” [More]

June 5, 2009, Sasebo - Forty active duty military personnel and dependents became U.S. citizens at a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Naturalization Ceremony onboard the USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship forward deployed at the U.S. Navy Base in Sasebo. [More]

May 29, 2009, Kagoshima - Dr. Fred Kaplan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, spoke to an audience of about 290 at Kagoshima University about the oratory of Presidents Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. As an admirer of Lincoln, President Obama has studied works by and about him, including Dr. Kaplan’s book, Lincoln: the Biography of a Writer.[More]