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DESCRIPTION:<p style="text-align: center\;"><strong>Local Economic Recovery
 : Firsthand Accounts from Tohoku </strong> \n Lecture @ Japan Society \n [
  Monday\, September 17\, 6:30 PM ]\n\n<p style="text-align: center\;">&nbs
 p\;\n\n<p style="text-align: left\;">The world's eyes were on Kamaishi Cit
 y in Iwate Prefecture a year and a half ago when a large portion of the ci
 ty was devastated by the March 2011 tsunami. A number of small and mid-siz
 ed businesses - the lifeblood of the region - have taken innovative\, entr
 epreneurial approaches that have yielded initial successes in revitalizing
  the local economy.\n\n<p style="text-align: left\;">Local leaders\, Akiko
  Iwasaki\, Owner\, Horaikan ryokan\, Akio Ono\, President\, Ono Foods Co.\
 , Ltd\, and Takahiro Sasa\, Deputy Manager\, Industry Promotion Department
 \, Kamaishi\, as well as Takeo Kikkawa\, an energy expert and Professor\, 
 Graduate School of Commerce and Management\, Hitotsubashi University\, wil
 l give firsthand accounts of how they have restarted their businesses agai
 nst formidable odds and the challenges that continued to confront their co
 mmunity and others like it throughout the disaster zone.\n\n<p style="text
 -align: left\;"><em>* This program is co-sponsored by The Shibusawa Eiichi
  Memorial Foundation\, Japan Center for International Exchange\, and Asia 
 Society\, and is supported by the City of Kamaishi\, The Consulate General
  of Japan in New York\, and The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partner
 ship\n </em>\n\n<p style="text-align: left\;"><strong>TICKETS</strong> \n 
 $12/$8 Japan Society members\, seniors &amp\; students\n <a href="https://
 tickets.japansociety.org/public/show.asp?shcode=27" target="_blank">Buy ti
 ckets online</a> or call the Japan Society Box Office at (212) 715-1258\, 
 Mon. - Fri. 11 am - 6 pm\, Weekends 11 am - 5 pm.\n\n<p style="text-align:
  left\;"><strong>LOCATION</strong> \n 333 East 47th Street (at First Avenu
 e)\n New York\, NY 10017\n Phone: (212) 832-1155\n Box Office: (212) 715-1
 258\n\n<p style="text-align: left\;"><strong>See more info:\n </strong> <a
  href="http://www.japansociety.org/event/local-economic-recovery-firsthand
 -accounts-from-tohoku" target="_blank">http://www.japansociety.org/event/l
 ocal-economic-recovery-firsthand-accounts-from-tohoku</a>\n
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SUMMARY:Local Economic Recovery: Firsthand Accounts from Tohoku 
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