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We will be holding the new UJNR meeting in Nakatsu-City Oita Pref.
on
November 7 - 8, 2008.
We would like to invite you for participating there. We are looking
forward to having your presence there in Nakatsu-City.
Nakatsu is the Northern area of Oita Prefecture and prospered as a
castle town in the Edo period. Nakatsu lays claim to having produced
many people that have had an effect on the modernization of Japan
namely
Dr.Ryotaku Maeno who translated Tafel Anatomie in1774, Masataka
Okudaira who was the lord of the Nakatsu clan that encouraged Dutch
learning and published the R/angoyakusen/;Japanese−Dutch Dictionary
in
1810 and /Nakatsu Bustard Dictionary/ ;Dutch−Japanese Dictionary in
1822,Yukichi Fukuzawa who founded Keio university in 1858 and Sunao
Tawara who discovered the heart stimulus conductive system in 1906.
/Yabakei/, a suburb of Nakatsu,is famous for autumn leaves and
naturally straight stone pillars. There are many tourist attractions
around there.
After the meeting,the following day we will have an additional study
tour as follows;
We shall enjoy Nakatsu castle, museum, autumn leaves and the
geothermal
power plant and we shall stay at a Hotel in Kokonoe where you can
see
Mt.Aso’s magnificent view from the hot spa.
You will be taken to Kumamoto airport from there the next morning.
Please refer to the congress information.
Thanking you in anticipation.
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