Thanks to everyone who came along to the pub quiz on Thursday night. The scores out of a possible 41 were as follows:

1st Place: E-to-ne (30 points)
2nd Place: The Katsudons (28 points)
3rd Place: Muhomapiji (27 points)
4th Place: Ichiban (26 points)
5th Place: Chuck Norris Wanabees (26 points)
6th Place: Usagi Team! (24 points)
7th Place: Natto-Natto-Kiss-Kiss (24 points)
8th Place: Supa Kawaii (22 points)
9th Place: Shinchan (21 points)

Congratulations to this years winners!

From all the committee members, we hope everybody had a good summer and that you're all refreshed and ready for the new academic year. The society has a lot planned for the future and we hope to make this term our most eventful yet.

As you may already know, our Freshers Week debut kicks off with the hugely successful "Sushi, Saké, Sumo". For those of you who aren't familiar with the event, here is a brief introduction/summary:

Japanese CDS, manga and textbooks for sale. All items are in excellent
conditions. I did the MA Japanese course at Edinburgh a few years ago and have used many of the items as a learning tool myself ( as well as for amusement of course).

CDs

Sailormoon R soundtracks (10 tracks)- £3
White Kiss by Koyasu Takehito - famous voice actor, Hotohori in Fushigi
Yuugi(6 tracks)- £3
Versus by Koyasu Takehito+ Seki Tomokazu- famous voice actor, Chichiri in
Fushigi Yuugi + Emperor in Saiunkoku Monogatari (18 tracks)- £3

After many requests from members who are not attending the University of Edinburgh, I have finally moved the Facebook group to the global area. Now anyone can join our facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24812323520).

Unfortunately, the 'move' is not actually a move but 'give-up old one and recreate'. So even if you are already on the old group, you will have to sign up again to the new one. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I hope this change will in the end allow us to connect more of us on the Facebook network.

To all members (that is anyone who has paid for the membership this year),

It is time of the year we ought to start thinking beyond the current academic year. In accordance with our constitution, the Society invites you all to our Annual General Meeting to be held on 28th February. The main business of the AGM is to elect the office bearers for the next term.

[Election Notice]
The following three positions for the 2008-09 academic year are subject to election at the AGM. All members are eligible to vote.
- President
- Secretary
- Treasurer
Only matriculated students of Edinburgh University can fill those positions. If you are interested in standing for any of those positions, please get in touch with the committee members at the earliest convenience.

[Other business]
If any members wish any other matter to be brought up at the AGM, including amendments to the constitution, please contact the committee members in advance.

We meet at a pub every Thursday. Everyone is welcome regardless of society membership, previous contact, your degree/occupation, whatever.

McEwans Ale House on Clerk Street (Google Maps)
Opposite Lloyds TSB Bank, next to Edinburgh Bargain Store and Oscars takeout
Thursday, from 8.30pm onwards

Our first social this year counted at least 50 people at a glance, and could well be over 70 of you in total must have shown up. It was truely fantastic to see so many faces. We are also glad to welcome so many exchange students from Japan as well as larger crowd of first year students this year, encouraging all of us to enjoy the cultural exchange more than any previous years.

The socials will resume in Fresher's Week 2008 for the new 2008/09 academic term.

We meet at a pub every Thursday. Everyone is welcome regardless of society membership, previous contact, your degree/occupation, whatever.

Our first social night is on this Thursday (Sep. 20) from 8.30pm at Tron on Hunter Square. We'll most likely be at down stairs getting the cozy corner section for ourselves. Please come along♪
Hunter Sq on Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hunter+Square+Edinburgh

(From the second gathering (Sep. 27), we are planning to move to McEwans pub on Nicolson Street just opposite the Lloyds TSB Bank. That should be more convenient location for majority of us. On the first night there we would probably have pub quiz. Details to be confirmed. Please stay tuned!)

Due to a technical failure of my part, all the data on the website are gone (stupid me of not taking backup). We expect the website to be built up again (with better security and automatic backup) in a couple of weeks. Apologies for any inconvenience.