WELCOME TO OUR COLLECTION OF PHOTOs & MEMORIEs of THE EU - EXECUTIVE TRAINING PROGRAMME in JAPAN (ETP4) - Oct 1983 to March 1985
Friday, November 30, 2018
Greetings from David O'Sullivan (ETP Programme Director)
Thursday, November 29, 2018
from: Herbert and Vanida Visscher
Dear all,
It sounds like we missed some great parties! We hope to catch up with most of you in Brussels in September next year.
All the best,
Herbert and Vanida Visscher
Dear ETP IV,
Apologies for the delay: much to do with the new town, the new house, and the new boat (photo attached).
It looks like those who were able to join the celebrations had the best of time: may every reunion be as happy as this one!
All the best from Auckland, New Zealand,
Alessandro and Wilma Laryn
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
ETP IV 35th Reunion Party in Tokyo (10th Nov 2018)
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Saturday, November 10, 2018
ETP Reunion kick-off (Fri 9th Nov 2018)
The early starters getting into the reunion mood
[L --> R ] Dermot Killoran, Jean Barthelemy, Eberhard Baehr, Kars Meyboom, Peter Thewlis, Yumiko (Killoran), Hiroko (Tully) & Anthony Tully
[L --> R ] Dermot Killoran, Jean Barthelemy, Eberhard Baehr, Kars Meyboom, Peter Thewlis, Yumiko (Killoran), Hiroko (Tully) & Anthony Tully
ETP Reunion kick-off (Fri 9th Nov 2018)
Peter Thewlis . . .with the smile of a recently proud dad (Congratulations!)
Greetings from Hans Mastenbroek and (wife) Ruth
Have only just seen that it is actually quite grainy, but did it as a selfie towards the end of the day, when the light wasn’t great any longer. Anyway, see if you want to use it.
Have a good party and weekend,
Take care,
Hans
Greetings from Niall Matthews (in Brussels)
Hello to you all from the pale sun of Brussels. Well now it’s dark. I had really been hoping to join you all this weekend. I had already taken the vacation days weeks ago and I was keeping the possibility open right until the last minute but now it’s sure (it’s already Saturday Japan time!) that I won’t be able to make it.
I have been working in Brussels for the last few years. I was asked by the Commission to come to Brussels to help with the work on the EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement (now called the Economic Partnership Agreement). Everything worked out well in the end. The agreement was signed in the summer and it should hopefully be ratified by Japan and by the European Parliament by the end of the year. Then from early next year import duties in both directions with a few sensitive exceptions will basically become zero. But that is quite enough about work.
I had the great pleasure of meeting Sayuri recently and we reminisced about those good old days! She is as elegant and kind as always.
I hope a reunion event next year in Europe works out.
My next trip to Tokyo with my beautiful Japanese wife will now be in June 2019. I can say that to you knowing that you are the only people who would understand that I couldn’t actually say it to a Japanese person (because as you know it would be like complimenting myself…)! Anyway I hope to be able to catch up with anyone who is around then.
It was really good to read your messages (hey Peter!) and to check out the site. Thanks especially to Anthony and to Dermot and to all of you who are keeping those懐かしいflames burning.
Warmest regards, fistbumps, hugs and kisses (I live in Belgium after all) to everyone. I will catch you next time.
Niall
I have been working in Brussels for the last few years. I was asked by the Commission to come to Brussels to help with the work on the EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement (now called the Economic Partnership Agreement). Everything worked out well in the end. The agreement was signed in the summer and it should hopefully be ratified by Japan and by the European Parliament by the end of the year. Then from early next year import duties in both directions with a few sensitive exceptions will basically become zero. But that is quite enough about work.
I had the great pleasure of meeting Sayuri recently and we reminisced about those good old days! She is as elegant and kind as always.
I hope a reunion event next year in Europe works out.
My next trip to Tokyo with my beautiful Japanese wife will now be in June 2019. I can say that to you knowing that you are the only people who would understand that I couldn’t actually say it to a Japanese person (because as you know it would be like complimenting myself…)! Anyway I hope to be able to catch up with anyone who is around then.
It was really good to read your messages (hey Peter!) and to check out the site. Thanks especially to Anthony and to Dermot and to all of you who are keeping those懐かしいflames burning.
Warmest regards, fistbumps, hugs and kisses (I live in Belgium after all) to everyone. I will catch you next time.
Niall
Greetings from Henning Kage & (wife) Etsuko
Dear Delmot,
Great, you have organized big parties in Tokyo!
How many people can take part in ?
We are very sorry not to be able to join you....
Best regards,
Etsuko & Kage
Great, you have organized big parties in Tokyo!
How many people can take part in ?
We are very sorry not to be able to join you....
Best regards,
Etsuko & Kage
Friday, November 9, 2018
Dear friends,
Vanida and I are so sorry that we cannot join you for the reunion in Tokyo this week, but we hope to see most of you at the European get-together. Meanwhile Hans and Ruth Mastenbroek and we had our own little reunion last week at our holiday home in Holland last month, they also send you their greetings (see picture):
After Japan we continued to live in The Hague but we/I travelled a lot in connection with my work as the International Director of AEGON Insurance, also quite a lot in Asia and a few times in Japan - at some point it seemed that we would get another long term assignment there but this unfortunately fell through. After AEGON I worked as an independent consultant for quite a while and we are now officially retired with still some occasional work activities. Busy enough with our three children and five grandchildren (age 0-4 years old), but still with plenty of time to travel and enjoy life. I am a very small investor in the development of the first flying car, PAL-V, which will fly in 2020 - very excited to be involved in its development:
Vanida and I are so sorry that we cannot join you for the reunion in Tokyo this week, but we hope to see most of you at the European get-together. Meanwhile Hans and Ruth Mastenbroek and we had our own little reunion last week at our holiday home in Holland last month, they also send you their greetings (see picture):
After Japan we continued to live in The Hague but we/I travelled a lot in connection with my work as the International Director of AEGON Insurance, also quite a lot in Asia and a few times in Japan - at some point it seemed that we would get another long term assignment there but this unfortunately fell through. After AEGON I worked as an independent consultant for quite a while and we are now officially retired with still some occasional work activities. Busy enough with our three children and five grandchildren (age 0-4 years old), but still with plenty of time to travel and enjoy life. I am a very small investor in the development of the first flying car, PAL-V, which will fly in 2020 - very excited to be involved in its development:
We will have a toast on your good health tomorrow - do have fun and make lots of pictures!
All the best,
Herbert and Vanida Visscher
Greetings from Eric Joris
Organizers Dermoth and Anthony, fantastic to keep these memories alive.
I really wished to be over there, to commemorate it I am putting on today some of the clothes I kept from the ETP days.
...Feels like 35 years ago, maybe more. (proof of it being sent to my classmate)
No plans of retiring yet, still busy in arts and happy with Mia and Ester!
Eric
I really wished to be over there, to commemorate it I am putting on today some of the clothes I kept from the ETP days.
...Feels like 35 years ago, maybe more. (proof of it being sent to my classmate)
No plans of retiring yet, still busy in arts and happy with Mia and Ester!
Eric
Greetings from Peter Vassiliou
Dear E.T.P. IV Scholars,
I am sending you all my love and best greetings and I wish you a happy 35th. Anniversary of our ETP Programme in Japan and every success in your reunion. I cannot make it to the 35th. anniversary, I look forward to the 50th.!
Following our ETP Programme I had a fruitful career at the Agricultural Bank of Greece and at the (Central) Bank of Greece, mostly dealing with Japanese banks and international relations, as well as banking supervision.
I had the chance to visit Brussels quite often participating in working groups at the Commission and the Council. I also attended the Sumitomo Bank Seminar and cooperated with the Bank of Japan.
I am on pension since 2010, in good health overall and enjoying cultural activities in Greece and trips abroad. This year was quite exciting with trips to Lebanon, Scandinavia, Romania and Moldova, as well as Northern Italy. Very interesting countries!
I wish the best of everything to every one of you.
Love and best regards from your ETP IV Co-Scholar, and God bless you and your families!
Peter Vassiliou
Athens, Greece
I am sending you all my love and best greetings and I wish you a happy 35th. Anniversary of our ETP Programme in Japan and every success in your reunion. I cannot make it to the 35th. anniversary, I look forward to the 50th.!
I had the chance to visit Brussels quite often participating in working groups at the Commission and the Council. I also attended the Sumitomo Bank Seminar and cooperated with the Bank of Japan.
I am on pension since 2010, in good health overall and enjoying cultural activities in Greece and trips abroad. This year was quite exciting with trips to Lebanon, Scandinavia, Romania and Moldova, as well as Northern Italy. Very interesting countries!
I wish the best of everything to every one of you.
Love and best regards from your ETP IV Co-Scholar, and God bless you and your families!
Peter Vassiliou
Athens, Greece
Greetings from Jean-Pierre Mura
Hello folks,
Very sorry not to be with you for this attractive celebration.
However, I’ll be thinking of you all, and totally immersed in the Japanese atmosphere as I prepare a big sake tasting event for my Wine tasting Club on Friday night…
Those 35 years have actually been flying and altogether I haven’t been that long in Japan except for a short come back from 2003 to 2006. I have spent much more time in Ireland, South Africa and Tunisia, nearly 15 years in total, of which I can’t complain anyway.
With my wife Catherine we have eventually settled in Angouleme, just between the more renowned cities of Bordeaux and Cognac.
Having retired for nearly 4 years I remain quite busy with social activities, and regularly travel to Ireland where my daughter Pauline works.
Cheers to all; have great fun on Saturday!
Jean-Pierre
Very sorry not to be with you for this attractive celebration.
However, I’ll be thinking of you all, and totally immersed in the Japanese atmosphere as I prepare a big sake tasting event for my Wine tasting Club on Friday night…
Those 35 years have actually been flying and altogether I haven’t been that long in Japan except for a short come back from 2003 to 2006. I have spent much more time in Ireland, South Africa and Tunisia, nearly 15 years in total, of which I can’t complain anyway.
With my wife Catherine we have eventually settled in Angouleme, just between the more renowned cities of Bordeaux and Cognac.
Having retired for nearly 4 years I remain quite busy with social activities, and regularly travel to Ireland where my daughter Pauline works.
Cheers to all; have great fun on Saturday!
Jean-Pierre
Greetings from Petra Reimers
When I came back from Japan my goal was to go back, but I did not succeed. Then I set up on a one year contract a sociology congress with 1500 participants for one week in Hamburg. After1 year contract, shifted to Düsseldorf to work with the national garden show in 87 mainly in charge with the international garden architects and so on. Eventually unemployed- and then studied natural medecine (Heilpraktiker) and Shiatsu therapy.
Next took a job with the Quebec government and was public affairs for German speaking territories.. Germany.. Austria... Switzerland for press, culture and universities. Very interesting work between Quebec and those countries, travelling to festivals speaking with cultural buyers etc. setting up a little Quebec News newspaper...but then after years of setting up many things they decided for household reasons to close down most of the 20 offices they had around the world and Germany.
In 1999, I moved to the south, better weather and smiling people and ended up in Ibiza in Spain where I worked 10 years for the German pages of a local paper. They also closed in 2008 and I decided to take pension in advance with some losses but... then I started to be more creative and exhibit my creations. (see www.pr-art-ibiza.com) For the moment I am fascinated by wood and spare parts (see E.T. in sculpture).
If somebody wants to come around. I have one guest room. If ever you get close ring on the door... better write to know if I am here.
Hugs, Petra
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Greetings from Patrick Goossens and (wife) Lut
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Greetings from Jean Barthelemy and (wife) Kumiko
“Looking forward for another great reunion, superbly organized
this time again by Anthony and Dermot!
35 years have flown, including the 1990-1995 period back in
France, so “only” 29 years in Japan. My two youngest, now 32
and 30, both married, were born here shortly after ETP, and I
remarried in 2001. I also have two grandchildren, 8 and 6, in
Albany, N.Y., born to my eldest daughter, who married a Scot ;-)
My wife works with me at JBC, the consultancy we established
in 2002 (after my 5 years with the French Embassy) to advise
and support European SMEs in tackling the Japanese market.
Fond memories from Berlitz and ETP will come alive on Saturday!”
this time again by Anthony and Dermot!
35 years have flown, including the 1990-1995 period back in
France, so “only” 29 years in Japan. My two youngest, now 32
and 30, both married, were born here shortly after ETP, and I
remarried in 2001. I also have two grandchildren, 8 and 6, in
Albany, N.Y., born to my eldest daughter, who married a Scot ;-)
My wife works with me at JBC, the consultancy we established
in 2002 (after my 5 years with the French Embassy) to advise
and support European SMEs in tackling the Japanese market.
Fond memories from Berlitz and ETP will come alive on Saturday!”
Greetings from Patrick Carroll
Top line, 4th from right.
Patrick Carroll :)
( admin: looks like it was taken a bit more than 35 years ago - haha :-)
Patrick Carroll :)
( admin: looks like it was taken a bit more than 35 years ago - haha :-)
Sunday, November 4, 2018
Greetings from Richard Reddaway and (wife) Lynette
Looking forward to being with the survivors next weekend.
I enclose a recent photo of my wife, Lynette, and myself, entertaining two Malaysian Indian friends for a snack (Malaysian style) in our apartment in Penang.
With best wishes, Richard & Lynette
Greetings from Kyoko Tanaka (formerly of EU Delegation in Japan)
こんにちは！ お元気ですか？
35/36 years ago, I was totally shocked when I heard some participants in the earlier ETP groups said: “We were sent to the moon, put in prison (Diamond Hotel) and got brainwashing (to learn Japanese). “ The first thing then I had to do was to wipeout this image of the ETP. Was it successful?
Last some 20 years until I retired in 2008, I was engaged in services in the trade and industry policy fields in the Delegation. This is the period when you devoted yourself mostly or partly or indirectly to business with/in Japan. It was thus so impressive that the EU- Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, of which actual negotiations I missed, was signed this year! And, you are now happily celebrating your 35th Anniversary of ETP 4. Congratulations!!
I hit “70” last January, a milestone, which means that I met you first just at the midway point of my life. I “look fine” but need great care for health. I enjoy quiet and slow life, mostly staying at home and sometimes going out to see excellent fine art exhibitions in Tokyo. Last October I enjoyed 薪能, no-play in the evening, at Meiji Shrine as you see the photo below.
35/36 years ago, I was totally shocked when I heard some participants in the earlier ETP groups said: “We were sent to the moon, put in prison (Diamond Hotel) and got brainwashing (to learn Japanese). “ The first thing then I had to do was to wipeout this image of the ETP. Was it successful?
Last some 20 years until I retired in 2008, I was engaged in services in the trade and industry policy fields in the Delegation. This is the period when you devoted yourself mostly or partly or indirectly to business with/in Japan. It was thus so impressive that the EU- Japan Economic Partnership Agreement, of which actual negotiations I missed, was signed this year! And, you are now happily celebrating your 35th Anniversary of ETP 4. Congratulations!!
I hit “70” last January, a milestone, which means that I met you first just at the midway point of my life. I “look fine” but need great care for health. I enjoy quiet and slow life, mostly staying at home and sometimes going out to see excellent fine art exhibitions in Tokyo. Last October I enjoyed 薪能, no-play in the evening, at Meiji Shrine as you see the photo below.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Greetings from David Blume & family in Canada
Video & photos below (click on full screen button on video for best viewing experience)
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