Learn Japanese Pod and Tokyo Weekender Magazine will be joining up to hold a New Year’s Party on Jan 15th in Roppongi. The Weekender Magazine is celebrating their 40th Anniversary and we will be celebrating the fact that it isn’t 2009 anymore. We are expecting a lot of people to come so this will be a great opportunity to meet new people, practice your Japanese and have a lot of fun in the process. Here are the details.

Location: 57 in Roppongi

Date: 15th January 2010

Time: 8pm start

Entrance: 4000 yen advance tickets (5000 yen on the door)

There will be an open bar, food and live music. Guy Perryman will be spinning the decks for us so this promises to be a great party.

You also have the chance to win a lot of freebies in our prize draw. Included in the prizes are free hotel tickets and organic food packages. We Japanese Language school will also be providing some cool prizes for students of Japanese.

You’d be absolutely bonkers not to come and we’d love to see you there. If you are interested please sign up here.

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What a crazy year that was and in true Japanese style we will be holding our 忘年会 (Bonenkai) or end of year party. Interesting enough 忘年会 translated literally means “forget the year party” and I can imagine there are more than a few people who would like to do that.

The party will be held at the Pink Cow. We will be holding this in conjunction with their Japanese Lounge event. There will be traditional Japanese music performances from Shakuhachi and Shamisen player. There will also be Kimono wearing.

ENTRANCE: FREE!!!!!

Doors open at 7pm
This is a free event so this is an excellent opportunity to experience some amazing Japanese culture, learn some Japanese and make friends. We would love to see you there so if you are interested please come along and if possible please sign up to the Facebook Event Page so we know how many people to expect.
Useful links:

The Pink Cow Website

The Pink Cow Facebook

The Pink Cow Map

Want to meet other Learn Japanese Podders? Tired of Tokyo and want to party at the foot of mount Fuji with some amazing music? Then come to our Learn Japanese Pod weekend party in Yamanashi on 29th and 30th August. It’s going to be held at the Earth Embassy Odyssey weekend party. The entrance fee is ¥3500. You get a weekend of amazing music, DJs and live bands. There will be food stalls, a bar and cafe plus some other interesting events. (Stay tuned for more information on that)

Getting there is easy. There is a Keio bus that runs from Shinjuku directly to the Earth Embassy. For more information please contact the Earth Embassy or me directy at info(at)learnjapanesepod(dot)com. Alternatively you can twitter me at http://twitter.com/japanesepodcast We also have a facebook event for this here. Please make sure to contact me as soon as possible so I can organize bus tickets for those with no wheels.

Incidentally this Learn Japanese Pod party is our first anniversary party. Doesn’t time fly?!

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Ethan Green, Tokyo based music journalist and man about town is hosting his very first event next week at the Ruby Room in Shibuya! Tokyo’s inaugural Beer Pong Night! Come down, show your support, and party with us!

“What’s Beer Pong?” you may ask? Only the most popular game in the US college scene! Enter the tournament for your chance at GLORY! Mark your calendars now!

Beer Pong Tournament!
The Ruby Room in Shibuya
Saturday, July 18th
9PM – late
1500JPY (includes 1 drink and 1 game ticket)

When Ethan asked me along to some juvenile frat boy drinking games I knew I had to get involved. Even if everything else fails, Ethan will be able to say he was the man who brought beer pong to Tokyo!