Classes for intermediate students will be held on Wednesdays from 6.15 to 7.15 pm and from 5.15 pm to 6.15 pm on Saturdays. Please register your preference of class and time with the KR&AC office in person, by email to info@krac.org or
by telephone 078-231-2271.

All classes will be FREE of charge for the month of February after which there will be reasonable charges depending on interest. These charges will be based on a two month schedule and not the yearly schedule and payments charged by most language schools. This is your chance to learn English conversation the right and easy way.

KRAC 137th Birthday - September the 22nd saw our Club celebrating its 137th year. A fantastic meal was laid out by our chef Kadomura san and the fantastic Hagman and his band entertained many of our members until the early hours.

137 years makes us the oldest named and established ex-patriot club in Japan. The introducers of many of Japan's foreign sports we are defiantly a club worth celebrating. Thank you to all staff and members who attended and let’s look forward to the next 100 years of history.

July 20th - The Bon Odori International Festival

At 6:00pm, as the Bon Odori Festival kicked into action, a constant and soaking drizzle fell on the Isogami Ground where the Festival was taking place. By 7:30pm, half-way into the festivities, torrential downpours, the hardest of the entire rainy season, turned the grounds into more of a mud bath than anything else.
But did this dampen the high spirits surrounding the festival? Not at all! We may have had to close up 30 minutes early, but everyone moved indoors to the KRAC Clubhouse to continue the party with spirits still soaring high, although rather drenched!!

The party continued on all floors of the Clubhouse, with a special Salsa Party laid on by Mrs Murata held in the gym on the 3rd Floor.
Thank you to all who came down to the KR&AC on Friday 20th. It is one of the best summer nights the KR&AC has seen in a long time, with members from Vissel Kobe, the Lions Club, the KR&AC and the Kobe Club partying together with local residents, to provide a real sense of a truly international Kobe community.

Special thanks goes to:
Our sponsors for their kind and generous donations.
Kawasaki San for organising the stage and tents
The Bon Odori Dancers: Fujinkai
Takarazuka Singer: Kaze Sayaka
The Odori Band
The KR&AC and Lions Club staff and organisers; and the Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant for providing great food.
Mrs Murata for organising the Salsa Party
And last, but by no means least, a heartfelt thank you to Shimizu San, Chairman of the Lions Club and Dr. Sadhwani, President of the KR&AC for their hard work in the planning and organisation of this fantastic summer festival.

Hope to see you all next year!!

Oscar Kusaba Receives Award

General Committee Member, Oscar Kusaba, received a special bravery award from Hyogo Prefecture for helping victims of heavy rain. Congratulations Oscar, your Club is very proud of you!!

Membership Campaigns

All membership campaigns have been extended to 31st December 2007.

For more information and to receive a membership package, contact the Front Office.
!!TELL YOUR FRIENDS!!

The KRAC Tower Project

The proposed KR&AC Tower, which was presented at the recent AGM, was designed by a famous architect (who shall presently remain nameless), providing
a breathtaking architectural design of the future KR&AC.

Further details will be provided as they develop, and as we continue to work together to provide a secure and spectacular future for Our Club.

KR&AC Kids’ Soccer Tournament & Academy

Coming September 1st, 2007 - KRAC Football (Soccer!) Academy - classes will start for children aged 6 to 10 years old (or thereabouts - exceptions may be made) on Saturday mornings on the KRAC ground.
Mothers will also be welcome to join in and there are plans for ladies classes, also, on the same day, or perhaps, in the coming months on the 3rd floor of the Club.
Please stand by for more details (or mail academy@jsoccer.com if you want to be first on the waiting list!) space will be limited. Fees and other costs, as well as much more detail will be in the next magazine.
Also, if you have a chance, get down to the Club on Saturday and Sunday, July 28th and 29th for the first KRAC Kids Soccer Tournament.
There will be around 200 kids from all over Japan participating in the tournament.

May 12th - Sho Amano

What can we say about Sho Amano? He performed to perfection and, believe it or not, some of his tunes were better than the original – yes, even the Eric Clapton ones! You really had to be there.
There might not have been room for much of a dance floor, but people were up there anyway; swaying to the sounds of “Tears in Heaven,” by the man himself – Sho!
Oh yes, Sho Amano can perform! Clapton’s Holy Mother – a walkover! Who could have thought that anyone could cover a Louis Armstrong number – Wonderful World – like that?! And to go from a Jimmy Hendrix track to the Dooby Brothers and B.B. King’s Route 66 with the Fabulous J-Men and Andrew Sato; the word gob- smacked springs to mind.
Thank you Sho Amano for your brilliance.

May 9th - All Blacks come to the KRAC!

On Monday Evening May 9th the KR&AC was given the immense privilege of hosting the Classic All Blacks. Although not in same category as their illustrious namesake ‘The New Zealand All Blacks’, the Classic ABs comprises members who have all played at least one game for the ABs at some stage in their career.
Started in the 1980s by legendary All Black hardman, Andy Haden, the Classic ABs were formed to offer over-35s internationals a way to keep in touch and play in low-key masters tournaments around the world. Monday night’s version however was mostly a group of 30-somethings who are still actually playing rugby. They have been assembled to help the Japanese rugby team tune up for this year’s biggest sporting event: the 2007 World Cup in France.
Although hastily assembled, the KR&AC was packed with members and guests in what was possibly the KR&AC’s greatest ever event. Certainly I am not aware of so many of the world’s great sporting legends being under our roof before in our 137-year history.