Dear EIJS friends,
We would like to invite you to the EIJS Academy seminar to be held on Wednesday, January 18th.
It is our great pleaure to invite Ms. Reina Otsuka as guest speaker who will give a talk on the topic "Entrepreneurship and Sustainability - What you imagine will come true in ten years"

Please find as below details of the seminar. Please sign up at eijsjap[at]gmail.com for the attention of Miki Futagawa
(Ms.)
We look forward to receiving your registration.

I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to you for your support and friendship to our program.
We look forward to welcoming you to our seminars in 2012.
I wish you a very happy holidays and a prosperous new year.

Sincerely yours,
Miki Futagawa
EIJS Tokyo Office
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Invitation to EIJS Academy Seminars 2011-2012 The 4th Seminar on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Topic: “Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
- What you imagine will come true in ten years"
Speaker: Ms. Reina Otsuka, President
Ecotwaza Co., Ltd.
Ms. Reina Otsuka is founder of Ecotwaza Co., Ltd. After graduating from Hitotsubashi University, she started her career with Recruit Co. Ltd.
In 2006, she founded Ecotwaza to share ecological deeds and products from Japan to other parts of the world through www.ecotwaza.com Her first encounter with environmental issues was at the age of 10, when she caught asthma and became aware of air pollution.
With a cultural
background of both the U.S. and Japan, and after traveling around 30 countries, she seeks to share the green wisdom Japan has to offer.

In the presentation, we will hear her experience of starting up a company in Japan; its difficulties and challenges in comparison with doing the same in other countries. We will also hear greentips to live ecological life in Tokyo and the future plans of business development of Ecotwaza.

Ms. Otsuka is the winner of the U.S. Ambassador’s Entrepreneurship Award 2010. Born in Tokyo in 1980.

Date: Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Time: 6.30 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. Drink & Snack (served before lecture)
7.00 p.m. – 9.00 p.m. Lecture and Discussion
Place: Auditorium, Embassy of Sweden
10-3-400 Roppongi 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo
106-0032
Five-minute walk from Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line Roppongi 1-chome Station
Five-minute walk from Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line Kamiya-cho Station
Fee: JPY3,000 per person, payable at the door
Free for those who are from sponsoring companies (*)
Free for students, please bring your student ID
Language: English

(*) EIJS Academy 2011-2012 Sponsoring companies Gadelius Holding Ltd., Ericsson Japan K.K., Nihon Tetra Pak K.K., Sandvik K.K., Höganäs Japan K.K. and in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden

Please sign up by January 13th (Fri.) via e-mail to eijsjap[at]gmail.com or fax to
(03-5562-9090) for the attention of Ms. Futagawa (EIJS Tokyo Office).
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Miki Futagawa
European Institute of Japanese Studies
Tokyo Office
c/o Embassy of Sweden