GOVERNOR LINDA LINGLE’S OHANA MISSION TO JAPAN
For Immediate Release: July 5, 2003
GOVERNOR LINDA LINGLE’S OHANA MISSION TO JAPAN July 5 – 11, 2003
Saturday, July 5 Depart for Tokyo
Sunday, July 6 Arrive Tokyo. No meetings scheduled.
Monday, July 7
8:00 a.m. Breakfast with Torkel Patterson, Special Assistant to Ambassador Howard Baker
9:00 a.m. Visit to Yokota Air Force Base. Meet with airmen and civilians with ties to Hawai`i. Interview with Stars & Stripes
12:00 noon Luncheon at Camp Zama, hosted by Hawai`i Club.
3:45 p.m. Visit to SONY “Media World.” Meeting with SONY executives.
Tuesday, July 8
7:45 a.m. Meeting with U.S. Embassy Country Team
9:30 a.m. Meeting with United Airlines officials.
10:30 a.m. News conference with consumer travel writers and travel trade media.
12:00 noon Luncheon meeting with JTB Corp. & JTB Hawaii
1:45 p.m. Interview with Asahi Shimbun
2:45 p.m. Interview with Weekly Toyo Keizai
4:00 p.m. Travel Industry Focus Session: Roundtable discussion with Japan’s travel industry marketing leaders.
7:00 p.m. Reception and dinner with leaders from the travel industry, government and business community.
Wednesday, July 9
8:00 a.m. Breakfast meeting with Ambassador Howard Baker and former U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum
9:00 a.m. Meeting with Northwest Airlines
10:00 a.m. Meeting with China Airlines
11:00 a.m. Meeting with All Nippon Airways
12:00 noon Luncheon with U.S. Embassy officials; travel and business leaders.
3:00 p.m. Meeting with Governor Shintaro Ishihara of Tokyo
4:00 p.m. Meeting with Ms. Chikage Oogi, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation
7:00 p.m. Dinner meeting with JAL/JALPAK
Thursday, July 10
7:45 a.m. Television appearance on Fuji TV, Mezamashi TV with Konishiki
8:45 a.m. Interviews with travel trade magazines
9:30 a.m. Interview with Nikkei Newspaper
Afternoon: Leave for Osaka via Bullet Train
7:00 p.m. Reception and dinner with travel, business, and government leaders.
Friday, July 11
10:00 a.m. Meeting with Governor Fusae Ohta of Osaka
12:00 noon Business Luncheon with U.S. Consul General Alexander Almasov
2:00 p.m. Meeting with Takeo Watabe, president, Watabe Wedding
Afternoon: Depart for Honolulu
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Contact:
Lenny Klompus
Senior Advisor – Communications
Phone: 586-0034
Russell Pang
Chief of Media Relations
Phone: 586-0034
