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Miyake Harumi sensei, our new teacher for 2013-14, created a supplementary video for the TE-form. Since flash cards are built-in, students can practice how to make the TE-form orally while watching it. The TE-form is very important in building up structures and we hope that Miyake sensei’s video will help students to master the TE-form. She will create more videos later, so please stay tuned!

We had an origami event on Thursday, Nov. 14. This event was supported by the Masse-Martin funds, REALC, and Japanese Culture Club. About 50 participants including six people from the local community learned three types of Origami from an origami teacher, who is actually our student, Jonguk Lim (junior, political science major). With help from JCC origami experts at each table, participants followed a step-by-step folding by Jonguk shown on the screen through the document camera. Everybody did excellent! Many participants were first-time origami folders and enjoyed this meticulous multi-dimensional origami art. Thank you for all who helped this event.

On Monday October 28, the Japanese program and the Japanese Culture Club (JCC) held a joint event “Sushi Night” in Few Hall. About 70 students participated in the event to learn Japanese table manners as well as a little history of Japanese Sushi. We welcomed Mr. Noguchi, a local sushi chef and each participant made their own California rolls with step-by-step instructions from Chef Noguchi and the leaders of JCC. For the first hands-on experience, many students were able to make amazingly beautiful rolls! Most students took pictures of their own rolls, enjoyed eating them, and took a picture with Chef Noguchi. This event was co-sponsored by the Dept. of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Emory College Language Center.