IMPORTANT NOTICE
- CHANGE OF PRESIDENT AND THE TRANSFER OF SECRETARIAT
>> Please refer to the TOP page for details - July 1, 2009
- Member's Coach Tour to Hanyu City and Ashikaga City on Saturday 26th September.
Members fully enjoyed a pleasant autumn day in the company of the Ambassador Maricou and diplomats from Belgian Embassy.
Hanyu City : Twin city of Durbuy, locates in the centre of Kano Plain.
Watching Bonsai , Rice Crop will be unforgettable experience.
Ashikaga Cicy : Historic City, called as a small Kyoto in the Eastern Japan.
Ashikaga School is known as Japan's oldest university.
Sunday , 26th September,2009
>> Major Event - The 2009 JBS 41st Annual Member's Assembly & Friendly Social Gathering.
It will be held in the honorable presence of Honarary Patron Prince and Princess Hitachi on Thursday, 3rd December,2009 at 18pm at Imperial Hotel, Hikari Room.
More detail will follow.
Your participation will be most welcome.
- Annual participation fee
Can we remind you to pay annual participation fee as soon as possible, in case you have not paid yet?
- October 30, 2009
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There are still many Corporate and Individual members who have not yet registered the e-mail address. Since we plan to send
JBS information via e-mail in the future to save the operation cost, may we remind you of making registration of the e-mail address,
as soon as possible, if you have not done it yet.
We plan to transmit JBS information in the future through our newly set-up provider (OCN), accomodated with the security. We would like to ask all JBS members to register their E-mail address through this website again, even if some of you have already informed us of the E-mail address or communicated with us via E-mail in the past.
- Individual Members
- Corporate Members - September 12, 2007
- Discontinuation of the Issue and Supply of the "List of Members" of JBS
The Japan-Belgium Society has issued and supplied every other year, the "List of Members" to all JBS Members. However, along with the Private Information Protection Law, we discontinue the issue of the "List of Members" and also stop supplying the existing "List of Members". Your cooperation and understanding is highly appreciated.
It has been reported that some JBS members received inquiries or sales offers from a person under the false name of JBS. Since we do not disclose any private information of our members to any third party, please confirm with us, should doubtful inquiries or offers occur to you.
Please refer to the "Policy on Private Information Protection Law" for details. - December 17, 2007
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CHANGE OF PRESIDENT AND THE TRANSFER OF SECRETARIAT
In accordance with the approval at the Extraordinary General Meeting at the end of March in writing, Mr. Kaneo Ito (Senior Advisor, Pioneer Corporation) retires the JBS President as of July 1, 2009 and Mr. Takao Kusakari (Board Counselor, NYK Line) assumes new President effective on the same date. At the same time, Mr. Yorihiro Watanabe retires from the JBS Secretary General and Mr. Shinichi Miwa (NYK Line) will take over his position effective July 1, 2009. Details appear in the JBS bulletin No. 76 issued at the end of June which are distributed to all JBS members.
Report of the JBS Events
The 2009 New Year Party of Western Japan Office
The 2009 New Year Party of the Western Japan Office was successfully held on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 with more number of participants than last year.
>> Please refer to Major Events for the details.
Report of The 2008 JBS 40th Annual Members Assembly
The 2008 JBS 40th Annual Members Assembly was successfully held on Wednesday December 3, 2009 in the honorable presence of TIH Prince and Princess Hiachi. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the JBS, the assembly was held at "Hikari Room", much larger room than previous years and about 200 people attended.
To cerebrate the anniversary, the "Barrel Breaking" ceremony was conducted. For the details, please refer to "Report of the 2008 JBS 40th Annual Members Assembly" and "The Photo Gallery of the 2008 JBS 40th Annual Members Assembly".
>> Report of the 2008 JBS 40th Annual Members Assembly
>> The Photo Gallery of the 2008 JBS 40th Annual Members Assembly
- Speeches and Presentation
- The 40th Anniversary Commemorating Barrel Breaking
- Welcoming TIH, Social Gathering
- Social Gathering
- A Gorgeous Flower Decoration and Displays of Belgian Arts
- A Delicious Foods, Solemn String Quartet
Member's Bus Tour to Minamiboso, which is JBS's main cultural exchange event of the year 2008 was successfully held on Saturday June 7, 2008.
The weather turned out to be exceptionally fine, from 8 weeks consecutive rainy weekends till a week before and event has been very successful as an outcome of joint cooperation among Belgian embassy, government offices and city of Minamoboso. We would take this opportunity to thank mayor Yutaka Ishii and his city government for the success of our event. For the details, please refer to "Report of Member's Bus Tour to Minamiboso 2008" and Gallery of Minamiboso Tour.
Report of Member's Bus Tour to Minamiboso 2008
Gallery of Minamiboso Tour
Snapshots Gallery of inspection
Report of The 2007 JBS Annual Member's Assembly
The 2007 JBS Annual Member's Assembly was successfully held in the honorable presence of Prince and Princess Hitachi on December 5, 2007 at Sakura-no-ma of Imperial Hotel, Tokyo.
A total of 192 members participated in the assembly, including HE Johan Maricou, the Ambassador of Belgium with his spouse, and those from the embassy, government offices, companies and municipality who have close ties with Belgium.
Following the official assembly part, Jazz band sponsored by Pioneer corporation played music and participants enjoyed friendship in the pleasant atmosphere. For the details, please refer to the Report of The 2007 Annual Member's Assembly and the Photo Gallery of the Annual Member's Assembly (coming soon).
Report of The 2007 JBS Annual Member's Assembly
Snapshots Gallery
Report of Yuki Tour
The JBS Member's Bus Tour to Yuki, Ibaraki, the JBS's main cultural exchange event of the 2007 was done successfully on September 29.
Thanks to Mayor Konishi and his city government for their full support.
We had 62 participants, which is the largest number for the JBS tour. Mr. & Mrs. Ambassador Maricou, Family Van de Voorde, the Minister-Counselor, and Mr. Ito, JBS President also joined the tour.
We believe that we have contributed to the friendly relations between Japan and Belgium through our "grassroots" exchange on a people to people basis. For the details, please refer to "Report of Yuki Tour" together with "Snapshots Gallery" in the Event page.
Report of Yuki Tour
Snapshots Gallery
Report of the others
REPORT FROM BELGIAN EMBASSY
REPORT OF FOODEX JAPAN 2008
The largest International Food and Beverage Fair, "FOODEX JAPAN 2008" was held from March 11 till March 14 at Makuhari, Chiba and a variety of Belgian foods and beverages were introduced. The fair was very successful and about 100,000 people visited the exhibition.
On March 13, Belgian Embassy hosted the reception inviting about 200 people at the hotel nearby the exhibition hall. Baron Willem Van de Voorde, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy informed in his welcome speech that the sales of Belgian foods and beverages in Japan are evolving very satisfactory and that although they represent only 7% of the total export to Japan, their contribution to the image of Belgium in Japan is enormous owing to the increasing popularity of Belgian foods into Japanese households and dining rooms.
He also said that those products tell about the values of traditional production in Belgium, according to the highest standards of hygiene and quality achieved through the constant research and development. They convey to the Japanese public a notion of sophistication and promise of good life. It in turn adds to a favorable background for potential Japanese investors.