Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

Japan
ASSOCIATION OF JUNGIAN ANALYSTS OF JAPAN (AJAJ)
Last year, we lost three of our senior colleagues, and truly became overwhelmed with
grief because they had been leading the Jungian society in Japan for many years.
They brought up many psychotherapists through their personal analysis and
supervision. Especially Dr. Kawai, who was also a representative of the foundation of
our society in 2002. At the memorial academic symposium for Hayao Kawai on the
20th of April 2008 at Kyoto, we had over 500 participants sharing bitter sorrow. We
have now reached the decision to take over their great heritages and develop them
further.
First, we would like to inform you of the change of our executives on the occasion of
the expiration of their present term, as follows: Hiroshi Yokoyama took over from
Kazuhiko Higuchi as President, and the newly arrived Toshio Kawai took up the
position of Vice-president. Madoka Kawato, the Director of the Selection
Committee, Iwao Akita, Treasurer, and Yasuhiro Tanaka, Honorary Secretary, remain
in their posts. Kazuhiko Higuchi had been in the position of President since our
founding. He continues to participate in our executive committee as Honorary
President.
Next, we are happy to inform you that we started up an editorial committee, and will
publish our first journal at the end of January 2009. The chief editor is Toshio Kawai.
This first issue will carry the record of the memorial academic symposium for Hayao
Kawai, as mentioned above, including its very impressive key-note speech by Dr.
James Hillman, “Silence and Laughter,” offering his deep condolences on Dr. Kawai’s
passing. We have a plan to steadily publish our journal yearly, which will contribute
to the further development and extension of Jungian psychology in Japan by providing
the occasion to present not only psychological but also interdisciplinary researches
including philosophy, anthropology, ethnology, the science of religion, brain science,
and so on.
This year, we made one new member who was trained in Zürich, Yasuhiro Suzuki,
welcome to our society. AJAJ now has 32 IAAP members (29 voting members + 3
associate members). Our society has grown considerably.
Six and a half years have passed since AJAJ became a training institute. We now have
9 diploma and 10 training candidates, 80 matriculated auditors, and 390 registered
members. During this year, two students have passed the entrance examination and
have become our training candidates. One of them has already started his training at
ISAP. With him included, three of our training candidates are now studying at ISAP in
Zürich. All of them are expected to become our diploma candidates. We are very
pleased to have such a steady increase in the number of our students. As a matter of
fact, another candidate will go to ISAP next year.
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