Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Cost: FEW Members ¥2,000 / Guests ¥5,000 (supper and drinks included)

Venue: Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ), Yurakucho Denki Building, 20th Floor (map)

Speaker: Vickie Paradise Green

Topic: Breast Cancer in Japan: Our Bodies, Our Responsibility

Vickie Paradise Green moved to Tokyo with her husband and three-year-old son in June of 1980 for three to five years. "My, how time flies," she jokes! Her son is now married and moving quickly up the corporate ladder at a global public relations firm and her daughter-in-law, a chemical engineer, is working for a major Japanese real estate developer.

When five years in Tokyo seemed destined to turn into ten, Vickie accepted a position offered by a local magazine to do what she loves to do--sales and sales training. In 1990, she joined a small publishing company that, unfortunately, filed for bankruptcy in late 1991. Even though Vickie had never owned or operated a company anywhere in the world -- for reasons even she can't explain -- in March, 1992, she decided to start her own custom publishing and design firm in Japan.

On January 29, 2002, Vickie's life was changed forever when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. By June of 2004, however, she was ready to help make a difference in the fight against breast cancer in Japan. Join us to hear Vickie talk about the Run for the Cure Foundation and its efforts to eradicate breast cancer as a life-threatening disease, by advancing research, education, screening, and treatment. Also hear how you can help. Test your knowledge about breast cancer, learn what to look for and how to properly self examine.

In 2006, it is estimated that 212,920 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,970 women will die. In Canada, 22,000 women will be diagnosed and 5,300 will die. And in Japan this year, over 30,000 Japanese women will learn they have breast cancer and more than one-third will die! Come and learn how you, too, can make a difference!

Contact: few@gol.com.

No advance reservation required. Please note this is a women only event.