This lecture (in English) will be held Wednesday, June 21 at 7:00 at Lakeland University in Ryogoku, Tokyo. It will also be streamed via Zoom.

Japan, a nation of about 125 million people, is a sports paradise with incredible athletes and even more incredible fans. During the recent World Baseball Classic, a record number of Japanese viewers watched each game played by Shohei Ohtani and his title-winning Samurai Japan baseball teammates, one of many sports in which Japanese athletes and teams now excel. Join us as Dan Sloan looks at the rise of Japan to global sports prominence and athletes like Ohtani who are forever changing the games they play with feats on the field - and very soon at the bank. If you like baseball, basketball, soccer, figure skating, Nordic sports, gymnastics, sumo, judo or martial arts, this lecture will highlight a who's who of Japan's finest, and the soft power these sporting heroes are contributing to their home country. 

Dan Sloan is a veteran journalist, former president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, author, frequent public speaker, and communications specialist, who has been an Adjunct Professor at Lakeland University Japan since 2018. A graduate of the University of Virginia and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Sloan was a correspondent and editor for Knight-Ridder and Reuters for two decades, while contributing reports to broadcast media including CNN, BBC and CNBC.  

-To attend the event in person, there is no need to register. For a map and directions to Lakeland's Ryogoku campus, see our website: https://luj.lakeland.edu/contact

--To join on Zoom, please register here (before 5PM on the day of the event). You will be emailed a link that afternoonhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/13Bu4n2QWD5H3TUz2et_azDe6SMUoeoojC4M66RN2pgM/edit
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Roger Grabowski, Jr.
Assistant Professor of General Studies
Lakeland University Japan