SKIF will be celebrating Kanazawa Kancho's 77th birthday and SKIF's 30th anniversary in Tokyo, October 23-26, 2008. Please see the brief note below from General Headquarters.

If you are seriously interested in going (no firm commitment at this point), let me know. If we have at least 20 people, including family/friends, I can coordinate a group trip with Japan Air Lines. With JAL, we can each travel to Japan on different days, so you can add days before or after the SKIF events to best meet your individual travel needs/interests.

I know that this would be a big use of your precious vacation time. This is also a major karate event and celebration, the magnitude of which we may not experience again in our lives. I hope you can make the trip. 

~Sensei Jay