A Japanese Journalist's Experiences in Wartime South Vietnam
When: Thursday, May 31, 2007
Time: 6:30pm Drinks, 7pm Dinner
Where: 10th Floor Hilton Osaka
Guest Speaker: Professor Kasumi Kitabatake
Cost: ￥4,000 Members, ￥6,000 Non-members
Professor Kasumi Kitabatake is certainly a man of many talents. He enjoyed a distinguished career in journalism with the Mainichi Newspaper which saw him on assignment in Saigon, Jakarta and Washington.
It was while working as a war correspondent in Vietnam that he was taken prisoner by guerrilla forces as a suspected spy, an experience which he will discuss at the FEW May meeting. TBS Television will be present at the meeting to film his talk for a future television program.
In addition to working for the Mainichi Newspaper, Professor Kitabatake served a three-year term as Editor and Publisher of NEWSWEEK Japan, before entering the world of academia where he taught first at Kansai university of Foreign Studies (1987-1998) and later at Kansai University of International Studies (1998-2005).
Please RSVP with menu preference to Sara Revell by Sunday, May 27th.
MAY MEETING DINNER MENUS TBA
Please specify your menu preference when you RSVP by Sunday, May 27th.
All menus include coffee with dessert: Dark cherry parfait with lemon orange sabayon and chocolate
crunch
Regular
Gateau of dill marinated salmon with layers of smoked salmon and yellow bell pepper mousse
Roasted sea bass, green beans scented with tarragon sabayon
and balsamic veal jus
Meat
Gateau of dill marinated salmon with layers of smoked salmon and yellow bell pepper mousse
Pan roasted beef fillet with Café de Paris butter sauce
Vegetarian
Variety of vegetable carpaccio, basil- olive oil vinaigrette
Potato gnocchi with light mushroom ragout and green
asparagus
