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■This year, the Japanese
Student Organization combines
a taste of Japanese culture with
compassion for America
By Mason West
Oregon Daily Emerald
Japan may be a little short of
5,000 miles away, but on Sun
day, members of the Japanese
Student Organization will bring
some of the country’s culture to
the EMU Ballroom for the Japan
Night celebration.
JSO co-president Rei Mastrogio
vanni said Japan Night has two main
goals: build friendships between the
students who volunteer to put the
event together, and expose the cam
pus to Japanese culture.
“Japanese people already know
all this stuff,” he said.
This is Mastrogiovanni’s second
year organizing Japan Night, and he
said he is working to make the event
less formal and more interactive.
“I want people to mingle. The
success of last year’s event was
that they could move around,”
Mastrogiovanni said.
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and potstickers with pork or tofu.
During the meal, the stage will be oc
cupied by a comedy skit based on a
Japanese television program, a karate
demonstration and a slide show.
Mastrogiovanni said he wants to
keep the stage events light-hearted
to debunk the stereotype of Japan as
a stoic society. The slide show, he
said, won’t just show temples, but
also cigarette vending machines,
cups of ramen noodles and all the
other daily aspects of Japanese life.
The karate demonstration will
have formal elements including
form and weapons demonstra
tions, but University junior
Jonathan Wang, one of the demon
strators, said the main skit will be
more action-packed.
“I grew up with Jackie Chan, and
I want to make (the skit) more excit
ing,” he said.
Kaz Akaoka, a second year post
baccalaureate student, was influ
enced by the older Bruce Lee films
when he was growing up, which
inspired him to start studying
karate during his time at college in
Japan 20 years ago. Later he
coached a high school karate club.
Akaoka and Wang both have
black belts, but Lane Community
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Yukiyoshi said he was asked to par
ticipate by Akaoka after they met in
a karate class at LCC.
Mastrogiovanni said the typical
crowd of 300 to 350 people in
cludes students from the University
and LCC. But this year, an addition
al 50 international students are
planning to make the trip from
Southern Oregon University to at
tend Japan Night, he said.
A different element of this
year’s Japan Night will involve the
audience in a Japanese tradition,
as a goodwill gesture to the vic
tims of Sept. 11. Members of JSO
will instruct the audience on how
to make origami cranes, and each
person will make at least two. JSO
will make additional cranes as
needed until there are 1,000, and
then they will be strung on
threads like a wind streamer and
sent to a still-undecided location
in New York City.
Sophomore Miesa Honda said
Japanese myth states a crane lives
for 1,000 years, so giving someone
1,000 cranes is a gesture of long life.
Also, because the 1,000 cranes are
not made by one person, the gift
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