Cocktails and Tours of the Mansion - Wishlist Silent Auction and Gourmet Dinner

6:30 pm Cocktails, Tours of the Mansion, and Silent Auction

7:45 Gourmet Dinner with Holiday Chorus with White Pine Glee Club

9:00 Cordials and Liqueurs Bar

$300 per person  

$2300 corporate table of 8

Non-Member Dining Room $325 per person

All inclusive.

Register online or to MAIL-IN an RSVP please use the form below.

Bid on hockey and basketball event club tickets, exclusive experience and gourmet packages, and specialty gift items.

Business and Holiday Attire

Meadow Brook Hall 350 Estate Drive Rochester MI 48309

248 364 6220

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Introducing the Michigan-Japan HR Conference, brought to you by the Japan America Society of Michigan and Southwestern Ontario. This will be a half-day conference for HR executives/management at Japanese companies in Michigan. 

Learn from experts about the fast-changing policies and how to improve your current HR strategies, policies, and processes. Topics will cover immigration, expatriate programs, local hiring options (inc. the Feb 2026 Japanese Job Fair), talent management, job description legalities, and pertinent advice from legal and practical business perspectives.

Michigan-Japan HR Conference

November 21, 2025 (Fri) 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Novi Civic Center (45175 W 10 Mile Rd, Novi, MI 48375)

Agenda

12:00-12:30 PM: Registration and networking

12:30-2:00 PM: Keynote presentation

- Introduction by Consul General Hajime "Jimmy" Kishimori 

- Dickinson Wright: Top Employment Issues HR Cannot Ignore: Immigration, Trade, Job Descriptions, and Other Legal Must-Knows

2:15-3:15 PM: Talent planning and recruiting

- Plante Moran: Strategic Talent Planning with Clarity: Aligning People, Purpose, and Networks

- QUICK USA: US Job Market Updates and Standing Out in the Recruiting Process

3:30-5:00 PM. Focusing on local talent

- HIROTEC: A Local Untapped Resource to Support US-Japan Business Efforts

- Japan America Society: The US-Japan Government’s Efforts to Connect Young Professionals and Industry

- 2026 Japanese Job Fair introduction

Exact times and presentation titles are subject to change. Please note that lunch will not be provided at this time.

Free with registration for HR executives and HR managers working at Japanese companies

Note: The registration form will close upon reaching the maximum capacity for this in-person event (approx. 100 attendees). This conference will be held in the English language.

This event is sponsored by the City of Novi, JETRO Chicago, Consulate General of Japan in Detroit, Japan Business Society of Detroit, Paris Baguette, JAS Young Professionals, and Ikigai Connections.

If you are unable to complete the Google Form below, please email kasia (at) ikigaiconnections.com.

Enjoy an afternoon of Japanese festival music, tea ceremony and flower arrangement, try your hand at Japanese calligraphy, origami, and kimono dressing. Watch performances of Taiko Drumming, Traditional Dance, and Martial Arts.

Fun for the whole family including children’s games and Japanese food vendors.

Admission and parking are free.

Japanese Taiko Drumming and Bon Dance

Free Admission

#MIBON2025 is a Community Project presented by the Great Lakes Taiko Center and hosted by Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Tour the Cranbrook Japanese Garden, enjoy cultural activities provided by JACL Detroit (Japanese American Citizens League) botanical displays by Ikebana International Detroit (Detroit Chapter 85) and the Ann Arbor Bonsai Society.

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Join us for JAPAN DAY and to celebrate the Japanese tradition of Children’s Day.

The Museum and Village are where visitors from around the world come to experience the incredible story of American innovation.

See you at 9:30 for ticket distribution

9:30 - Museum Opens

10:00 - Welcome from Consul General Hajime Kishimori in the Anderson Theater

10:30 - 1 hour introductory tours available in Japanese and English

Japanese language materials and interpreters await you!

10:30 - 5:00  - Spend the day visiting the Museum & the Village including several options for lunch

Ticket prices include admission to both The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, and parking. There is no charge for children under 5.

Paid tickets can be deducted from an annual membership begun on the same day.

For overnight guests a list of local hotels is provided below.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE OR THE LINK BELOW TO BUY YOUR TICKETS TO BE PICKED UP ONSITE ON JAPAN DAY

Discover how Japan's spirit of technological progress is woven into this history. Eiji Toyoda gained insights into mass production techniques at the Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant and Thomas Edison's early light bulbs used bamboo filaments from Kyoto Prefecture, and see HONDA Job 1, the 1st car produced outside of Japan, and a 1966 Toyota Corona Sedan. Take a look at Isamu Noguchi's important role in modern design.
Explore iconic artifacts like the Wright brothers’ airplane. Step into Greenfield Village, where historic homes, working farms, and skilled artisans bring the past to life in an interactive, open-air setting. Visit Thomas Edison’s actual laboratory transported from Menlo Park, New Jersey, take a ride on a train powered by a huge steam locomotive to an antique carousel and taste the famous Greenfield Village frozen custard. 

HinaMatsuri 2025- Girls’ Day Celebration

Come by the Detroit Institute of Arts on Sunday, March 2nd, 10:00AM-5 PM for a celebration of Japanese Girl's Day, HinaMatsuri, with demonstrations of the tea ceremony, calligraphy, stories, games and musical performances. Presented by the Japan Business Society of Detroit, Japan Cultural Development, and Japan America Society.

Free for Museum visitors

Chinese EV North America Entry Strategy

Chinese Auto Companies Entering the US & Canadian Market via Mexico.

Flavio Volpe, president of Canada's Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, will address the concerning trend of Chinese auto companies utilizing Mexico as a gateway to penetrate the lucrative United States and Canadian automotive markets.

*PRESENTATION IS STILL OPEN FOR REGISTRATION

*TOUR IS SOLD OUT

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Demonstration and Exhibition of flower arrangements.

Experience the centuries-old comic Japanese folk art of rakugo in a rare performance by master storyteller San’yūtei Ponta, who studied under master rakugoka San’yūtei Kōraku. Rakugo is performed by a single storyteller, who uses only a paper fan, tenugui cloth, and his own voice to tell three epic funny (or ghost) stories with multiple characters.

Each character is brilliantly depicted through a change in pitch, tone, or a slight turn of the head. Ponta has prepared three stories for his Detroit visit: Chōtan (Long and Short), Tengu sabaki (Trial by Tengu), and Shinigami (Grim Reaper).

The performance will be in Japanese with projected English subtitles. (60 min.)  

Sponsored by the Japanese Business Society of Detroit.

Students and Job Seekers will have the opportunity to hear Consul General Shindo’s presentation, to network with company representatives, and to submit their resumés to select companies. 

Companies interested in recruiting new employees please contact Cheryl McGinnis, Director of Corporate Relations at cmcginnis@oakland.edu.

Free and open to the public with advance registration: https://bit.ly/jarrrte

Doors open at 12:30

Oakland University Campus

Golf Pavilion, Rochester, MI

Free parking: Lot P51

Business casual attire

Sponsors: Great Lakes JETAA, Oakland University, Japan America Society of Michigan and Southwestern Ontario, Japan Business Society of Detroit

Develop your ‘elevator pitch’ with guest speaker: Jane Lee of Sales Xceleration. Free with registration via the QR code below.

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Join Oakland University's Plattenberger-sensei to learn how to transform your future during this free life-changing career planning event!

Oakland University Campus North Foundation Hall • Room 156 • FREE PARKING • LOT P01

Please click on the gold link below to RSVP to the invitation to the Freer House Reception with Frank Feltens, Curator of Japanese Art, National Museum of Asian Art, that will follow his 2 PM lecture ‘Still Making Waves: Charles Lang Freer and Sotatsu’s Waves of Matsushima' at The Detroit Institute of Arts Danto Lecture Hall.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Charles Lang Freer’s House in Detroit at 3:30 PM for refreshments and Japanese inspired light fare and a toast with Japanese Consul General Yusuke Shindo.

Built by Detroit industrialist Charles Lang Freer in 1892, the Freer House at 71 East Ferry Street is the birthplace of the Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian in Washington D.C., currently celebrating its 100th year.

Sotatsu's 'Waves at Matsushima' and Charles Lang Freer

Attend a fascinating presentation by one of the world's experts on Japanese Art, Dr. Frank Feltens. Dr. Feltens, Curator of Japanese Art at the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, will speak at The Detroit Institute of Arts at 2PM on Sunday, November 19th.

Dr. Feltens will highlight the origins, recent high resolution replication, and unique ties to Detroit of Tawaraya Sotatsu's 17th century masterpiece 'Waves at Matsushima'.

Canon Inc., the Kyoto Cultural Association, and the Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art have recreated high resolution reproductions of the Museum's Japanese paintings using advanced imaging technology and traditional crafts. Unlike the fragile originals, these facsimilies can travel broadly to encourage art appreciation and cross-cultural understanding.

Detroit Industrialist Charles Lang Freer brought the 'Waves of Matsushima' to his Detroit home at the turn of the 19th century. He later transferred his entire collection of Japanese and Asian Art to the Freer Gallery that he established in Washington D.C., now celebrating its 100th Anniversary.

Edo Avant Garde, directed by Linda Hoaglund, reveals how Japanese artists of the Edo period (1603–1868) innovated abstraction, minimalism, stylization, collage, and other techniques, which today are all considered “modern.” Edo artists’ originality is most striking in images of nature depicted against gold leaf backgrounds on large-scale folding screens (byōbu). In interviews with scholars, priests, curators, and collectors, the film traces the artists’ ingenuity to their profound engagement with the natural world and their reverence for the spirits inhabiting it.

To research the film, Hoaglund reviewed more than 30,000 images of Edo art on US museum websites, many of which are featured in the lesson plans available here. Working with Japan’s Academy Award-winning cinematographer Kasamatsu Norimichi, Hoaglund’s team filmed nearly 200 works of Edo art in museum and private collections across the United States and Japan. Edo Avant Garde assembles Edo masterpieces scattered across the globe to reevaluate how the artists’ innovations sparked and shaped the development of the modern art movement in the West.

Free and open to the public- please come and enjoy an afternoon of Japanese Culture in Novi.

JAS member company, Toyota will host the JAS young professionals group in Saline Michigan from 3-5 PM on July 11, 2023. Join us for a company overview, a meet & greet with Toyota YPs and executives, and an offsite networking event!

The first in a series of three company visits planned 2023.

YP member company visits are FREE for Japan America Society Young Professionals. Join here. Already a JAS YP? Please RSVP via email with Toyota in the subject line.

Non-members are welcome to attend the Toyota company visit for $60 by registering below.

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