This month’s Newsletter is our 100th issue. Thank you very much for your continuous support and readership.
CLAIR Sydney was established in 1994 and we began to issue periodical newsletters since 1995. As such it is not an exaggeration to say that the history of our Newsletter is a big part of the history of CLAIR Sydney.
We support the sister city relationships between Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The first sister city relationship between Australia and Japan was between Lismore and Yamato-Takada in 1963 and the first between New Zealand and Japan was Christchurch and Kurashiki in 1973. CLAIR being established in the 1990s has supported these relationships for more than 20 years.
Apart from this, we have invited to Japan thousands of young Australians and New Zealanders as JET Programme participants from 1987 till the present day. The number of former JETs have reached 4,000 in Australia and 3,000 in New Zealand. I was also a student of a first generation JET teacher twenty-nine years ago. The JET Programme has been going for quite a long time with participants over two generations.
CLAIR Sydney has had eight directors (including me) and more than 70 members from Japan since its establishment. Many friendships have been formed between our staff members and people they have met in Australia and New Zealand over the years and these relationships will forever be treasured.
Thank you very much again for your continued support.
Katsunori Kamibo
Director