'HEISEI ONNA-HOKO at JR Kyoto Station' / 'Daimonji Okuribi '
Toastmasters is the best way to improve your communication skills. Toastmasters can help you lose the fear of public speaking and learn skills that will help you be more successful in whatever path you've chosen. You'll be a better listener. In Toastmasters, you will enhance them. Many Toastmasters clubs are on the go throughout the world.
Now in Kyoto, Toastmasters International Kyoto Toastmasters Club was organized in December 2000 and was chartered on March 6, 2001. (#7816-76) The Club aims at a bilingual Toastmasters club in English and Japanese.The Toastmasters International is a non profit worldwide organization in California, US approved by the US Federal Government and more than 210,000 Toastmasters are learning Toastmastering at approximately 12,000 Toastmasters clubs throughout the world.
In U.S. and Canada corporate Toastmasters clubs are common while almost 100 percents of the clubs in Japan are community clubs like Kyoto or Tokyo Toastmasters Club. (click) Their sponsors in US are as follows:
The federal, state, and municipal governments and agencies, Senate, NASA, Navy and Army, colleges and universities, and firms like IBM, Microsoft Corp., Apple, Bank of America, ATT&T, Boeing, Ford, GM, Xerox, Exxon, Shell Oil, Mobil Oil , CocaCola Co. etc.
The Toastmasters Educational Program:The educational program is the heart of a Toastmasters Club. It is the means through which you develop your communication and leadership skills and achieve your goal of becoming a better communicator.
The Toastmasters educational program is divided into two tracks -- a communication track and a leadership track. The communication track is the major part of the system -- almost all new members join Toastmasters for the benefits this track offers. Some become involved in the leadership track. The tracks are not mutually exclusive. You may participate in both tracks at the same time if you wish. (click)
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Regular Meetings:
We meet every 2nd and 5th Saturday at Campus Plaza Kyoto near JR Kyoto Station or Kyoto International Community House in KEAGE, near NANZEN-JI. Your participation in meetings as a guest is most welcome.
113th regular meeting:
Date: Sunday, August 30, 2008
Time:
Japanese: 1:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. / English: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 a.m.
Venue: Campus Plaza Kyoto near JR Kyoto Station (link)
113th regular meeting:
Date: Sunday, September 13, 2008
Time: Japanese: 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 a.m.
Venue: Campus Plaza Kyoto near JR Kyoto Station (link)
: not at Campus Plaza but at Kyoto International Community House in KEAGE (link)
What's New?
1. TM Akiko Ogawa won the third prize at the Distruct 76 Speech Contest in Japanese at District 76 Spring Conference in Hiroshima:
TM Akiko Ogawa & TM George Yen, International Director, TMI
2. The Best Speaker of the Year 2007/2008 / The Most Improved Speaker of the Year 2007/2008 of Kyoto Toastmasters Club
The Best Speaker of the Year TM Rikuko Kanai / The Most Improved Speaker of the Year TM Akiko Ogawa
Kyoto Toastmasters Club Members
The Charter Ceremony took place in Hotel KEIHAN Kyoto on Saturday, May 12, 2001. Almost 50 Toastmasters from Osaka, East-Kobe, Kansai, Tokushima, Nagoya, and Takarazuka clubs and District 76P officers (Governor Inagaki, Lt. Governor Mktg. Omachi, Division B Governor Yamanaka, and Area 53 Governor Tamaru etc. at that time) gathered to share the joy of the charter on March 6, 2001.
President 2008/2009: Shozo Ohtera, CTM
Further information, please contact:
Yayoi Higashi, CC (Vice President Public Relations 2008/2009 ) at <click>
Toastmasters Hotline: 090-8579-6984
Meeting venues - maps & websites
Sponsor Clubs:
Kansai Toastmasters Club (#2244-76) (link)
Osaka Toastmasters Club (#4408-76) (link).
Club Sponsors & Mentors:
Sponsors:
Masahiko Inatsugi, DTM (Speak-Up/Kyoto/Takarazuka/East-Kobe)
Shuzo Shimada, DTM (Kasugai/Kyoto)Mentors:
Takeru Toki, DTM (Kansai/Speak-Up)
Kazuhiro Nomura, ATM-B (East-Kobe).
Webmaster: Masahiko Inatsugi, DTM
Last updated August 17, 2008
