The Historic Charles Lang Freer House delivered a perfect setting to welcome Japanese Consul General Hajime (Jimmy) Kishimori to the great city of Detroit on Sun 4/27!

Wayne State University's Patrick Lindsey and the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute graciously hosted the local US and Japanese business community and members of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Consul General Hajime JIMMY kishimori stressed the vital Japan-US-Canadian bonds of business and culture and shared a memorable account of his own connection to the Freer Gallery, Smithsonian National Museum of Asia Art, from his time in Washington, D.C.

Society Chair Derrick Redding highlighted the city's early industrial history and Charles Lang Freer's rail car production that set the foundation for Detroit to become the Motor City.