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“GolfUSA Sapporo Fair 2007”
November 8, 2007 − Sapporo

CS Sapporo Commercial Specialist Misa Shimizu organized the GolfUSA Sapporo Fair on November 8, 2007. The event promoted U.S. manufactured golf products, such as swing analyzer software, trajectory analyzers, laser distance measuring devices, clubs, and self-balance golf carts. Five Japanese agents representing the U.S. products exhibited at this one-day event held in the auditorium of the U.S. Consulate General. For more information on Commercial Services, please visit CS web page. (More)

Invited by the corporate study group of Nakayama-gumi, one of the leading construction companies in Hokkaido, Commercial Specialist Misa Shimizu made a presentation about housing in the United States to an audience of forty on November 2nd, 2007. Specialist Shimizu talked about the differences between U.S. and Japanese housing from a variety of perspectives: designs, color applications, durabilities, and loan systems (mortgage vs private). This study group within Nakayama-gumi meets once a month, inviting guest speakers from different industries. Nakayama-gumi is the local agent of Diversi-plast, a U.S. manufacturer of corrugated plastic products. The lecture was covered by Hokkaido Construction Newspaper, a local industry journal. For more information on Commercial Services, please visit CS web page.

CS Sapporo Commercial Specialist, Misa Shimizu, made a presentation on U.S. building materials in a workshop for Lindal Cedar Homes on October 24. Working with Create Kumagai, the U.S. company's dealer in Japan, Specialist Shimizu arranged the workshop, the fourth in a series of five, under an ongoing Platinum Key Service (PKS) for Lindal Cedar Homes. In this workshop, the Lindal representatives introduced a wide variety of U.S. building materials from wash basins to kitchen cabinets to toilet paper holders, while Specialist Shimizu introduced U.S. consolidators and described what they do and how they ship such materials to Japan. Twenty-five prospective customers attended the workshop. For more information on Commercial Services, please visit CS web page.