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CRAM HAS BECOME THE NEW SENSATION

Let's face it. We are in a recession. We can no longer gamble with our
money. That is why Cram is the best investment in the poetry scene.

Compare Cram to this similar competition. The Poetry Center of Chicago is
now accepting submissions for its 15th Annual Juried Reading. It is
charging what they call a $15 "jury fee". Two hundred and fifty people
allegedly entered that competition last time, but only eight were chosen
to be included in Dancing Girl Press's nearly identical (though less
widely distributed) chapbook. The rest of the entry fees were not
refunded. That means if you trust them, there will only be a 3% chance
that they will recognize your talent but a 97% chance that you can kiss
your money goodbye—that is, as they walk away with a profit of about
$1300. But why would you trust them, since this time their judge is the
notorious West Coast academic Brenda Hillman, who awarded her friend Laura
Mullen the University of Georgia prize and who awarded the Sawtooth Poetry
Prize to a poet with a manuscript that Hillman personally helped revise.
And, don't forget, Hillman is merely the final judge. Chances are she
won't even see your poetry after the Poetry Center makes their
eliminations. Kind of crappy odds, wouldn't you say?

Guess what. If your poem is not selected for inclusion in Cram, YOU GET
YOUR MONEY BACK! How crazy is that? That means, you have nothing to lose.

Let us see your poetry; go here for information:

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POETS, CHICAGO IS CALLING

THE THIRD ANNUAL CHICAGO CALLING ARTS FESTIVAL

EVENT:
The Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF3) takes place October
1-12, 2008, featuring Chicago-based artists collaborating in performances
and projects with artists living in other locations -- both here in the
U.S. and abroad. These collaborations will be prepared or improvised, and
some performances will involve live feeds between Chicago and elsewhere.

Among the scheduled projects are: a Chicago-based musician/composer
collaborating with a composer from the Philippines, Chicago-based poets
connecting over the radio with poets from Hawaii, and a Chicago-based
musician collaborating with a British visual artist. Venues for CCAF3 will
include Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery, The Velvet Lounge, Black Rock Pub
& Kitchen, Heaven Gallery, Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center, WNUR
(Northwestern University), Peter Jones Gallery, 32nd&Urban Gallery,
AV-aerie, Café Mestizo, and other locations.

ARTISTS:
Artists involved with CCAF3 work in a wide range of media, including
music, painting, video, poetry, dance, and other art forms. CCAF3’s
participants will include Lisa Abbatomarco, Tom Abbs, Josh Abrams, Jeff
Albert, Jesse Alexander, Fred Anderson, Geejay Arriola, Ian Ash, Chris
Avgerin, Dave Awl, George Bailey, Renée Baker, Steve Barsotti, Sarah
Bendix, Ben Billington, Jeb Bishop, Chuck Bontrager, Ben Boye, David
Boykin, Alpha Bruton, Rob Cambre, Dave Cappello, Vittorio Carli, Alice
Hui-Sheng Chang, Chicago Phonography, Insook Choi, Asimina Chremos, Janina
Ciezadlo, Chad Clark, Clean Boys, Boo Cook, Stephen Crall, Eric Cressley,
Noé Cuéllar, Tim Daisy, Larry O. Dean, Tony Del Valle, Tomás Diaz,
Christian Dillingham, Eric Elshtain, Michael Erzen, Karl A. D.
Evangelista, Marcus Evans, Douglas Ewart, James Falzone, Gregory Frazer,
Ray Garman, Carol Genetti, Rachel Thorne Germond, Paul Giallorenzo, Dan
Godston, Jon Godston, Matthew Golombisky, Elizabeth Harper, Akiko
Hatakeyama, Jeffrey Helgeson, Christopher Hemann, Caryl Henry Alexander,
Alan Emerson Hicks, Jason Hoopes, David Harrison Horton, Hamadal Issoufou,
Fred Jackson, Rachel Javellana, Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Allan Johnston,
Wayne Allen Jones, John Kannenberg, Jennifer Karmin, Donna Kiser, J. C.
Kuhl, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Simone LaPierre, Eric Leonardson, Fred
Lonberg-Holm, Bill MacKay, Joshua Manchester, Elizabeth Marino, Dave
Marsalek, Jeff Marx, Steve Maxwell Jr., Curtis McKinney, Rachel Michaels,
Jayve Montgomery, Robin Morrissey, Shelley Nation, Bruce Nelson, Charlie
Newman, Erin Obradovich, Donna Pecore, Mike Reed, Matthias Regan, Dave
Rempis, Timothy David Rey, Eric Glick Rieman, Ed Roberson, Dennis Sagel,
Larry Sawyer, Cathleen Schandelmeier, Alycia Scott, Seattle Phonographers
Union, Christopher Skebo, Mark Smithivas, Karl E. H. Seigfried,
Stagebridge, Staajabu, Laura Evonne Steinman, Katherine Stubbins, Craig
Taborn, Hanah Jon Taylor, Erin Teegarden, Jamie Topper, $2 Cockroach, AJ
Viola, Alex Vittum, Joel Wanek, Ann Ward, Della Watson, Stan West, Matt
Weston, Glenn Weyant, Jodee Winship, Paul Wood, The World Listening
Project, Dave X, Sid Yiddish, Avery R. Young, Saalik Ziyad, Taalib-Din
Ziyad, and others.

ORGANIZERS:
CCAF3 is being organized by the Borderbend Arts Collective, a not for
profit organization. Borderbend’s mission is to promote the arts, to
create opportunities for artists to explore new directions in and between
art forms, and to engage the community. CCAF3 is sponsored by Poets &
Writers, ESP-Disk’, and WNUR, and CCAF3 is partnered with The Chicago
Independent Radio Project.

CHICAGO ARTISTS MONTH:
Chicago Calling is part of Chicago Artists Month, the thirteenth annual
celebration of Chicago’s vibrant visual art community. In October, more
than 200 exhibitions of emerging and established artists, openings,
demonstrations, tours, open studios and neighborhood art walks take place
at galleries, cultural centers and arts buildings throughout the city.
For more information, call 312.744.6630 or visit
www.chicagoartistsmonth.org. Chicago Artists Month is coordinated by the
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and is sponsored by the Chicago
Office of Tourism with additional support from 3Arts.

http://www.chicagocalling.org/

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STOP THE STUPID FREAKIN' WAR ALREADY

4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD
street performance by Jennifer Karmin

Friday, October 3rd

5pm beginning in front of the Vietnam War Memorial
at Wabash and Wacker Avenues along the Chicago River

Jennifer Karmin has been collecting 4000 WORDS for the 4000 DEAD Americans
in Iraq. All words are being used to create a public poem. During street
performances, she gives away these words to passing pedestrians.
Submissions are ongoing as the Iraq War continues and the number of dead
grows. Send 1-10 words with subject 4000 WORDS to jkarmin@....

"I want to start with the milestone today of 4,000 dead in Iraq.
Americans. And just what effect do you think it has on the country?"

-- Martha Raddatz,
ABC News' White House correspondent
to Vice President Dick Cheney

Participants include:
Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Manan Ahmed, Michael Basinski, Charles
Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, Maxine
Chernoff, Catherine Daly, Patrick Durgin, Arielle Greenberg, Kate
Greenstreet, Carla Harryman, David Hernandez, Jen Hofer, Pierre Joris,
Matthew Klane, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Joyelle McSweeney, Vanessa Place,
Susan Schultz, Juliana Spahr, Stacy Szymaszek, Joshua Marie Wilkinson,
Andrew Zawacki, and many more.

Sponsored by:

the Chicago Calling Arts Festival
http://www.chicagocalling.org

Chicago Artists Month
http://www.chicagoartistsmonth.org

Poets & Writers
http://www.pw.org

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HER MARK 2009

Woman Made Gallery is proud to announce the publication of Her Mark 2009.
It is a poetry / art / calendar journal, one of the most unique things to
come out of Chicago. It makes a perfect gift!  Here's some info

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TIME TO CRAM IT

Holy Poetry Batman!!!!  Submissions for Cram 4 are ALREADY pouring in.
Just a reminder that you shouldn't wait until the deadline to send in your
submission or you might be left out.  Here are the details:

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PSSSST. HERE'S A TIP

address for sending books for lit display in cultural center

Danielle Chapman
Director of Publishing Industry Programs
Department of Cultural Affairs
Chicago Office of Tourism
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St., 4th floor
Chicago, IL 60602

(Tell 'em ChicagoPoetry.com sent ya')

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  A MONTH OF POETRY

**Tue Sept 23: WordPlay youth open mic, free pizza, 7 PM, with feature New
York City's Gary Mex Glazner, Young Chicago Authors, 1180 N. Milwaukee
Ave., 2nd Fl, adults are highly encouraged to support it by checking it
out.

**Tue Sept 23: Rubloff Auditorium, Loyola University, 25 East Pearson St,
Simon Armitage & Robin Robertson, 6 PM, free.

**Wed Sept 24: The Poetry Center of Levato continues its mid-life identity
crisis and spends your hard earned tax dollars to present Kimiko Hahn and
Eugene Gloria, 6:30 PM, SAIC Ballroom, $10, huh, $10??? That's a pile of
Levato!

**Thu Sept 25: Elbowing Off the Stage presents Meg Reilly, Kenyatta
Rogers, and Susan Yount, 7:30 PM, at 1278 North Milwaukee 4W, BYOB.

**Fri Sept 26: Mercury Cafe, 1505 W. Chicago Ave, open mic with features
Al De Genova, Gregorio Gomez, Stephanie Lane Sutton , 7 to 9 PM.

**Fri Sept 26: Barnes and Noble, 631 E.Boughton Road, Bolingbrook, open
mic with feature Marilyn Giese, 7 – 9 PM, NapervilleWritersGroup.org

**Fri Sept 26: Please come Friday, September 26, Brothers K Coffee House,
500 Main St, in Evanston, 6:30--8:00 PM, featuring Mary Hawley, Mike
Puican, Alice George, Cecilia Pinto, Eileen Favorite, Chris Green, cin
salach.

**Sat Sept 27: Brazilian Authors will be reading at 3 PM in the Chicago
Author’s Room of the Harold Washington Library Center at 400 S. State St.
7th floor; features include Maria Esther Maciel, Paulo Henriques Britto,
Sergio Medeiros and Virna Teixiera.

**Sat Sept 27: Art Institute, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan, Marilyn
Nelson, 2 PM.

**Sat Sept 27: Banned Books Week Read-Out, Pioneer Court, 401 N. Michigan,
noon – 4:30 PM.

**Sun Sept 28: Green Mill, 4802 N. Broadway, 8 PM, $6, open mic and slam
with features Sid Yiddish and Wes Heine

**Sun Sept 28: Fourth Sundays Rhino Poetry Workshop, Evanston Public
Library, Church & Orrington, Room 108, 1:30-4:30 PM, with Steven Shroader,
Lost in Translation: On Poetry as Border Crossing, a notion based on
Robert Frost’s description of poetry as what is lost in translation. Bring
15 or more copies (no longer than two pages) of work you want critiqued.
*$5 donation appreciated

**Mon Sept 29: Renowned poet and translator Marilyn Nelson will lecture
and read from her work in two events at Roosevelt University on Monday,
Sept. 29. Both events, open to the public, will be held at the Chicago
Campus of Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave. Nelson will lecture
to students studying literature and slavery from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
in Room 310. She will read from her work at 5 p.m. in Room 244

**Tue Sept 30: Columbia College, 623 S Wabash, 1st Fl, presents WordPlay
youth open mic, free pizza, 7 PM, with feature Junkyard Ghost Revival, is
a spoken word theater experience like no other, combining the national and
world multi-champion cast of Buddy Wakefield, Derrick Brown, Anis Mojgani
and Andrea Gibson all in one night! This exceptional and inspiring verbal
circus features performance poets raveling cross-country in a truly
inspiring and moving event that has been hailed as the liveliest spoken
word experience in America.

**Oct 1 thru 12; Chicago Calling

**Fri Oct 3: St. Paul's Cultural Center, 2215 W. North Ave, Todd Heldt,
Kristy Bowen, Scott DeKatch and Kurt Heintz (not a fart that stinks,
scary, huh?), 8 – 9:30 PM, donations. I am definitely going to make an
attempt to go and review this one.

**Tue Oct 7: 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th, Kevin Coval, 6 PM.

**Tue Oct 7: Northeastern Illinois University Recital Hall, 5500 N. St.
Louis, Ana Castillo will lecture at 8 PM.

**Tue Oct 7: WordPlay youth open mic, free pizza, 7 PM, with featuring the
one and only Alvin Lau, Young Chicago Authors, 1180 N. Milwaukee Ave., 2nd
Fl, adults are highly encouraged to support it by checking it out.

**Thu Oct 9: Art Institute, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan, Adam
Zagajewski, 6 PM

**Thu Oct 9: The Poet's Eye, The Artist's Voice, A collaborative
performance of projected images created by the artist and haiku-like poems
written and read aloud by the poet. A Chicago Artists Month Event. At
Heartland Cafe, 7000 N. Glenwood Ave, 7 PM.

**Oct 9 - 12: Poetry Center of Levato Executive Director Francesco Levato
cashes in for his support of Small Press Month with a grant from an
unnamed "New York based arts foundation" that will send Francesco Levato
(all expenses paid) to Berlin for the ZEBRA poetry film festival where the
Poetry Center of Levato will feature work by Francesco Levato. That's a
lot of Levato!! Seriously, I have seen some of Levato's so-called poetry
videos and they are mediocre at best. The only reason he is being featured
in Berlin is because he is abusing his administrative position at the
poetry center in order to advance his own career. He used the Poetry
Center of Chicago to blindly support a New York based outfit in order to
get a personal grant to promote his own work. You know, some of us
actually have to do the grunt work before we earn opportunities; and
others just mosey on in and use 35 years of other people's work to their
own advantage. Levato has become nothing but a "scenester" and his
nepotistic actions are causing the poetry center to lose all credibility.

**Fri and Sat Oct 10 and 11: Columbia College's Beat Symposium

**Sat Oct 11: Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Ave, Yusef
Komunyakaa, 6 PM, $15, 312.494.9509 or visit www.chfestival.org

**Sun Oct 12: There will be a dual book release party for Brandi Homan and
Kathleen Rooney at Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia Ave, at 7 PM. "There will be
alcohol, music, and puppet madness."

**Sun Oct 12: Myopic Books, 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave, David Meltzer and
Michael Rothenberg, 7 PM. A leading poet of the Beat Movement, A leading
poet of the Beat Movement, David Meltzer’s Beat Thing (La Alameda Press,
2004) won the Josephine Miles PEN Award, 2005. He was also editor and
interviewer for San Francisco Beat: Talking With The Poets (City Lights,
2001). 2005 saw the publication of David's Copy: The Selected Poems of
David Meltzer by Viking/Penguin. Meltzer's poetry offers a unique vision.
As well as making a key contribution to the U.S. poetic landscape, Meltzer
is also a musician and kabbalah scholar. Michael Rothenberg edits Big
Bridge magazine at www.bigbridge.org. Books include Man/Woman, a
collaboration with Joanne Kyger, Paris Journals (Fish Drum Press), Monk
Daddy (Blue Press), and Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New
Mexico Press). His poems have appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review, Fish
Drum, Prague Literary Review, Tricycle, Van Gogh's Ear, Vanitas, Zyzzyva,
Jacket, and elsewhere. Rothenberg edits the Penguin Poet series, which
includes selected works of Philip Whalen, Joanne Kyger, and Ed Dorn. He
recently completed the Collected Poems of Philip Whalen for Wesleyan
University Press.

**Mon Oct 13: The Poet's Eye, The Artist's Voice, A collaborative
performance of projected images created by the artist and haiku-like poems
written and read aloud by the poet. A Chicago Artists Month Event. At Buzz
Cafe, 905 S. Lombard Ave., in Oak Park, 7 PM.

**Mon Oct 13: Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield #207, presents a special book
reading and performance by author Alistair McCartney, with an opening
performance by Tim Miller, 7:30 PM, $10, buy tickets at www.linkshall.org
or make reservations at 773.281.0824

**Mon Oct 13: Mystic Celt, 3443 Southport, Twilight Tales, featuring
Richard Chwedyk with an Sci-Fi / Fantasy themed open mic, 7:30 PM.
Twilight Tales takes place every Monday.

**Tue Oct 14: WordPlay youth open mic, free pizza, 7 PM, with feature New
York City's Roger Bonair-Agard, Young Chicago Authors, 1180 N. Milwaukee
Ave., 2nd Fl, adults are highly encouraged to support it by checking it
out.

**Wed Oct 15: California Clipper, 1002 N. California, Palabra Pura,
Frances Trevino and Tony del Valle, 8 PM, 21 and over.

**Fri Oct 17: Mercury Cafe, 1505 W. Chicago Ave, open mic with feature Kim
Berez and others, 7 – 9 PM, free.

**Sat Oct 18: Red Rover Series Experiment #23, Division Street Dance Loft,
735 W. Division, 7 PM (be prompt, doors lock at 7:30), How To Hear A
Sentence, featuring Ira S. Murfin, Marisa Plumb, Srikanth Reddy, $4
suggested.

**Sat Oct 18: 3rd Saturday Coffeehouse Open Mic Night at Unity Temple, 875
Lake Street (at Kenilworth), Oak Park. 7:30 sign up, 8 pm Open Mic, 9 pm
featured performer Quraysh Ali Lansana. Open Mic is limited to 5 minutes.
Charlie Rossiter host. We are acoustic--no equipment provided. $3-$5
donation. Wheelchair accessible. Info at 708-660-9376.

**Sun Oct 19: Myopic Books, 1564 N. Milwaukee Ave, John Tipton and Brenda
IiJima, 7 PM.

**Mon Oct 20: Poetry Center of Chicago presents Poetry Center of Chicago
Advisory Board Member Li-Young Lee, 6:30 PM, SAIC Ballroom, sponsored by
The Poetry Center, where they use your money to feature themselves.

**Tue Oct 21: Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State, Louise Gluck, 6 PM,
see poetryfoundation.org

**Tue Oct 21: WordPlay youth open mic, free pizza, 7 PM, with feature
Seattle's Jack McCarthy, Young Chicago Authors, 1180 N. Milwaukee Ave.,
2nd Fl, adults are highly encouraged to support it by checking it out.


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The news this last week has been dominated by two strong
alternating images which really speak to the realignment of
world business and power. The first was of course the near
meltdown of the U.S. economic system, with the collapse of
Lehman Brothers, the rescue of AIG, and the buy-out of
Merrill Lynch. Looking at these events unfold, we were
reminded that the laws of nature certainly do apply to
economics, even though these basic laws (e.g., you can only
spend what you earn, what goes up must come down, etc.)
have been skillfully postponed and re-routed by Greenspan
and co., over the last decade.

Despite the quick and decisive action of the U.S. Treasury,
we suspect that the financial meltdown is far from over.
You can't print up half a trillion dollars and throw them
at 4 essentially bankrupt companies (Bear Sterns, Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac, and AIG) and not expect to devalue
your currency or stoke inflation. We do find it interesting
how Paulson and co. have managed to get the central banks
of other major western (plus Japan's) economies to come
along for the ride and share the pain. Certainly this will
help keep the dollar from dropping for another few months
-- perhaps at least until after the elections.

Then of course, there are those US$6trn worth of
non-transparent CDS derivatives floating around in the
financial system, which still have to be accounted for
or settled. No one really knows what the fall-out from
settling these will be -- especially since some of their
issuers are now no longer in business.

The contrasting image in the news was of China, now the USA's
largest economic competitor, and shows that that country is also
running into the realities of its own systemic problems. The
China event was a meltdown of public trust (we think economic
and political problems are still to come), with the
Melamine-in-the-Milk-Powder scandal. Images of hundreds and
now apparently thousands of babies lying sick in hospital
due to contamination of infant milk formula is creating a
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We feel that the China incident points to the fact that you
can't take a country that just 20 years ago was an economic
and educational backwater, and expect it to suddenly start
behaving like a modern fully functional state. Peasant
attitudes borne of a harsh life economically and high
mortality rate still linger just below the surface, and as
Japan has proven, you need at least 1-2 generations of
educated citizens to adopt a set of values that they
actually believe in and will work towards. Values such as
the sanctity of human life, rule of law, government for the
people, clean and safe living environment, safe food, etc.
are still in short supply in China.

While in the past a third world country's internal
development was naturally regulated by its own ability to
educate and provide for its population, gradually
interconnecting with global commerce, the advent of
first-world companies jumping head-first into China (and
now India and Vietnam) with bags of cash and large, modern
plants and technology, has turned the natural order of
things on its head. Because of this, it's no wonder that
those not working in the factories, the farmers in
particular, have looked on with envy at the newfound wealth
and status of their luckier worker-bee compatriots.

It doesn't take much to see that this envy of the "haves"
naturally leads the "have-nots" (the farmers) to try to
improve their own earnings through whatever means possible,
including tainted fertilizers, counterfeit pesticides,
risky animal drugs, and other dubious business practices.
The attitude of Chinese authorities appears to be that they
are willing to accept some collateral damage in the pursuit
of growth. As a result, as of 2005, China became the world's
largest exporter of food, with exports in excess of US$53.3bn
in that year (certainly a lot higher now). Until this year, 27%
of that food was coming to Japan, 12% to the USA, and
another 18% to South Korea, Hong Kong and Germany. Thus,
the cultural problems that occur in China have become
inextricably linked to to those countries who import its
products.

Certainly the tainted milk scandal is going to have some
severe repercussions on the Chinese-sourced food market in
Japan. When insecticide-tainted gyoza started showing up in
Japan in January of this year, it highlighted the fact that
Japan is in fact addicted to the huge volume of low-cost
food coming in from China. The Japan-inbound food trade at
the time was around approximately JPY1.6trn (US$14.9bn),
and was (and still is) by far the largest food source for
Japan. With an average salary of just 5%-10% of a Japanese
farmer, the economics are irresistible.

Even so, the Japanese are particularly sensitive about the
quality of their imported food, especially since around
60% of all food is now imported, and after the gyoza
scandal the year-on-year volume of produce imports from
China fell by 32% in March this year, and by 26% in June.
Yes, Mrs Watanabe likes low-cost dumplings, potatoes, and
onions, but not if her family are going to get sickened by
them.

This latest food scandal has already touched Japan's
shores. Much like Singapore and Hong Kong, which have
found melamine contamination in liquid milk imported from
China and which have subsequently both issued urgent
recalls of milk products, Japan's supply chain also
includes milk that is sourced from China. Osaka food maker
Marudai has recalled at least three products on the
possibility that they are contaminated, and the Ministry of
Health is checking with hundreds of other companies to make
sure that they follow suit. The government does not want a
repeat of the recent tainted rice scandal (insecticide
tainted industrial-purpose rice from China that got
diverted into the human food chain) which in this last week
claimed the job of the Farm Minister.

To improve its food security, Japan is already in the
throes of slowly changing its farming and food source
systems. Firstly, moves are afoot to allow corporations to
run farms and for farmers to be able to sell their land
without having to go through their local agricultural
cooperatives. This will mean that over the next 10 years or
so, thousands of acres of fallow rice paddies, which
farmers have to leave unplanted to receive rice subsidies,
will now come under the ownership of companies which can
invest to move such land from rice to other crops, who will
be much more economically competitive, and who may
repopulate the countryside with younger laborers, even if
they are imported from China and elsewhere.

Secondly, Japanese food corporations are stepping up their
diversification and security of food sources, in particular
taking ownership of the entire supply chain, from owning
the farms in other countries, through to the processing and
distribution of the food stuffs. We see this in China where
Japanese supermarkets have started their own company farms
and in Australia, where the likes of Nippon Meat Packers
and Itoham breed beef, monitor or own abattoirs, pack the
meat, and ship the finished product to their own
distribution centers in Japan.

This start-to-finish control of the production process is
of course nothing new to the Japanese. They have been
practicing the same approach for car and electronics
manufacturing, where the trading companies own the mines
and transport, and send the raw materials in to their
group-owned factories in Japan, so as to churn out superior
quality products.

A new Asahi Breweries dairy farm in China is a good example
of the total supply chain approach. In May last year, the
company announced that it would start the operation of a
100-hectare dairy farm outside the Shandong Province city
of Laiyang. The farm was developed at a cost of JPY1.5bn,
and included side investments by Sumitomo Chemical and
Itochu Corp. The farm is now fully operational, and Asahi
last week started marketing its milk output to Chinese
consumers with the angle that it is a safer alternative.

Asahi's safety point is that they control every aspect of
the farm and its produce, and thus they are not prone to
the rorts practiced by farmers who form the lowest (and
uncontrollable) level of the supply chain of other leading
dairy producers. And we do mean "control". Apparently the
pasteurization and other machinery Asahi uses are all
imported from Japan, milk production and animal health are
conducted by in-house specialists, and only milk from the
farm is sold by their marketing arm.

Although the Asahi milk is 50% more expensive than its
competitors, already Japanese supermarket chains such as
Ito-Yokado and Aeon have said that they will start selling
the product in their stores. Our guess is that with all the
media coverage going on, Asahi's approach will gain wide
acceptance by consumers and competitors alike.


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+++ NEWS

- New U.S. VC unit for Asahi Kasei
- H&M does well with first store
- Drink-drive Passenger fined
- Barclays interested in acquiring Lehman Brothers Japan
- Lots of people older than 100



-> New U.S. VC unit for Asahi Kasei

While some Japanese listed companies find M&A targets for
their spare cash, others are doing venture capital funds.
Such is the case with materials company Asahi Kasei, which
has just established a JPY1bn (US$9.3m) venture fund to
invest in U.S. start-ups in the electronics materials and
medical equipment spaces. Asahi Kasei says that it is
hoping to put its money in up to 30 different companies.
***Ed: Although JPY1bn is a relatively small fund, what is
significant here is the opportunity for U.S. start-ups to
get involved with a major Japanese company as a close
partner. This will probably mean that investees get Asahi
Kasei business introductions back in Japan, and possibly
even a sales base. Both these benefits would significantly
magnify the reasons for taking such a small investment.**
(Source: TT commentary from nikkei.co.jp, Sep 20, 2008)

http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/AC/TNKS/Nni20080919D19JFA04.htm

-> H&M does well with first store

German competitor to Gap and Uniqlo, Hennes & Mauritz AB
(H&M), opened the doors of its first branch in Japan last
week and has been a huge hit ever since. The Ginza-located
store recorded 50,000 visitors over 5 days, and managed to
sell out of a number of items. By Friday, the line outside
to get into the store was still 2 hours long. Top of the
popularity charts were mini-skirts and knit sweaters. (Source:
TT commentary from nikkei.co.jp, Sep 19, 2008)

http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/AC/TNKS/Nni20080919D19JFA03.htm

-> Drink-drive Passenger fined

Under Japan's new drink-driving laws which permit the
police to fine passengers, not just the driver, the first
passenger to be so charged was sentenced to a JPY250,000 in
Sendai District Court. The passenger was fined on the basis
that he asked his drunk friend to drive him home while
knowing that the driver was drunk. As a result, the driver
slammed into a walking group of high schoolers, and killed
three of them. The driver has already been sentenced to 20
years in prison. (Source: TT commentary from nikkei.co.jp,
Sep 19, 2008)

http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/AC/TNKS/Nni20080919D19JF387.htm

-> Barclays interested in acquiring Lehman Brothers Japan

The international financial media are speculating that
Barclays, Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFJ), and Sumitomo Mitsui (SMBC)
are all interested in bidding for the assets of Lehman
Brothers Japan. Barclays is a natural party to a possible
transaction thanks to the fact that it bought out Lehman's
US broker business earlier this week. ***Ed: As of June
this year, SMBC became a major shareholder in Barclays and
therefore is unlikely to bid directly against the British bank.**
(Source: TT commentary from theaustralian.news.com.au, Sep
20, 2008)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24373192-20501,00.html

-> Lots of people older than 100

The number of people older than 100 in Japan rose to a
record 36,276 this year, with women comprising 86% of the
total. The number of centenarians has more than doubled in
the last 6 years, providing early proof of calculation
that there will be around 1m centenarians by 2050, and that
such estimates are not necessarily far-fetched. The
oldest person is a 113-year old woman living in Okinawa.
Okinawa still has the highest number of centenarians, with
838 people, or, about 0.061% of the population. This is
about double the ratio of old people for the nation on
average. (Source: TT commentary from ap.google.com, Sep
12, 2008)

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gM-4k2NnB76UlmiL4p2ks2bgUbsQD93582D01



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