FRIDAY: Dinner with Professor Inoguchi, Japan's expert on WMD Disarmament

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In response to popular email clamor, Yale Club of Japan will have an Expanded post-Election Cocktail Hour after work on Friday Nov. 12, starting at 6 pm at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, Yurakucho. Come and commiserate, come and celebrate, come and get group therapy, come and get insight from fellow Yalies.

The cocktail hour-and-a-half offers a natural segway to our even more timely dinner speaker, Professor Kuniko Inoguchi, who will talk on how a Bush II Administration will impact the effort to contain nuclear weapons programs in North Korea, Iran and elsewhere.

Prof. Inoguchi, a Yale graduate, served for two years until last spring as Japan's Permanent Representative to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Now a professor at Sophia University, Prof. Inoguchi can give a frank, insider's assessment of the outlook for keeping the nuclear bomb genie inside the bottle. For more background on this rising star of Japanese diplomacy, Inoguchi-sensei's bio is available on her personal web page here.

This timely evening of dinner, talk and questions will take place at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. Strategically located downtown for intercepting the maximum number of members coming off work. The cash bar at the "Yale Room" will open at 6:00 p.m.