Reminder October events: Including UFT Hybrid Meeting Sunday October 11 3-5:00Japan Time

 Finding Hope thru Music

Yacoub Ghazzawi, organist at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, will speak to us from Jerusalem. 

October 11  15:00 to 18:00 Japan Time

Join on ZOOM 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85281156367

The passcode is 845822.

IN PERSON

Place: St Alban's Anglican Church 

           Rector's Office (second floor) 

           3-6-25 Minato-ku Shiba Koen 105-0011

           On hill between Iikura intersection and Tokyo Tower 

           Nearest Subway Station: Kamiyacho

           St Alban's is the Wooden Church next to larger white concrete St Andrews

Charities supported by Yacoub  include NPO Seichi no Kodomo o Sasaeru Kai (contact ispalejpn@gmail.com)

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Information For Those in Tokyo Area:    

From UFT Marian Hara: 

October 25 

 Amnesty International (AITEN) hosts an important newly-released Japanese documentary. 

With the recent focus on how Japan is dealing with its increasing foreign population, NOW and THEN looks at pressing issues for refugees and asylum seekers in Japan, and  at activists working for changes to the current system.

The film also covers the long unresolved cases of attacks on Korean residents after the 1926 Kanto earthquake, linking past and present to spark awareness and discussion of discrimination and injustice.

Discussion and questions after the screening, English subtitles and translation, and the director Takashi Nishihara will join.

     Sunday October 25

     14:00-17:00

     U of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Bldg 18

aitentokyo@gmail.com

 

Dominick Scarangello: You Think You Know Buddhism? Thing Again. UFT September 13, 2026 (Japan Time)

Reminder UFT will meet Sept 13 4:00 to 6:00 In Person and on ZOOM

Presenter and discussion leader: Dominick Scarangello.

Topic: You Think You Know Buddhism? Think Again: Challenging Some Popular Ideas About Buddhism.

Our speaker, Dominick Scarangello, obtained a PhD from the University of Virginia in 2012. He has taught at several universities and worked on important translations. His interests include Lotus Sutra Buddhism in East Asia, Japanese religions, and religion and modernity.  Scarangello is presently the International Advisor to Rissho Koseikai and  coordinator of the International Lotus Sutra Seminar.

 

NOTE time change:  September 13 Sunday  4:00 (not 3:00) to 6:00 Japan Standard Time

Location:
, Seminar Room E (posted in lobby)

                On Torii -zaka hill between Roppongi and Azabu Juban stations.

                106-0032 Minato-ku Roppongi 5-11-16

                Tel (Front Desk English and Japanese) 03-3470-4611

Join some of us with Dominick for drinks or dinner afterwards. All welcome.

 

 ON ZOOM:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85281156367

The passcode is 845822.

 After a long gap, we are trying to revive this blog as a way of communicating our activities and welcoming others.  Recently, a new friend joined us by taking a chance that we are still active and met us at the International House June 14th for a great live and on-line meeting discussing meditation, experiences and practices.   I will try to bring this up to date with summaries of our past meetings, but in the meantime, we are available on Facebook at Unitarian Fellowship of Tokyo.   We are taking a break from our regular meetings over the summer and our next schedule meeting will be September 9, 2026.

We also expect to have one or two activities over the Summer.  Information about them will be on the Facebook page (and later here).   This page helped one new friend join us last Sunday so we will try to keep it uptodate so we can keep our more than 60-year-old English language discussion group in Tokyo and on-line going.  More later.