Celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Japan Club of Sydney - Yushiro Mizukoshi

Yushiro Mizukoshi, chairman of the Japan Club of Sydney (JCS) from 2014, has been seeing changes and the transition of the Japanese community in Sydney.

JCS participates in the Clean Up Australia Day. Yushiro greets participants with Consul-General Keizo Takewaka (third from left) Source: Yushiro Mizukoshi

Yushiro (centre) with two JCS vice chairpersons in Cowra, NSW Source: Yushiro Mizukoshi

JCS was established in 1983 to provide a platform to deepen the connection among Japanese immigrants in Sydney.  JCS is marking its 35th anniversary this year and holding multiple events to commemorate the occasion such as a film screening on the 12th of May and the Japan Festival in Parramatta on the 9th of June.

During the interview, Yushiro shares the changes and transition he saw in the past 35 years and explains more about upcoming commemorative events.

Yushiro, Mr. Masato Takaoka (Former Consul-General of Japan) and MS. Gail Giles-Gidney (Willoughby Mayor) at the Japan Festival in Chatswood Source: Yushiro Mizukoshi

Star Sand, an Australia-Japan joint film directed by Roger Pulvers, will be screened as part of the celebration Source: JCS