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We'd like to encourage any prospective member
including anyone who
just would like to know activities
in our club, to attend our meeting as a
guest. |
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We have our regular meeting at 14:00 - 16:30
on the 3rd Saturday in principle. (But sometimes
the schedule would be changed. So please
contact our Vice President Public Relations
yukip_fisher@hotmail.com in advance to your visit to our meeting
in order to confirm the upcoming meeting
schedule.) |
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We'd like to welcome you anytime. Please
make sure to arrive at the
venue at latest 10 minutes before the
scheduled time. |
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All you have to do is just providing us with
your contact information
and paying 500yen as a guest fee. You
don't have to bring anything. |
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Please just feel free to drop into our meeting!
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Better Communication Is Just One Meeting
Away.
Making Effective
Communication
Toastmasters is the best
way to improve your communication skills.
Lose your fears of public speaking and
learn skills that will help you be more successful
in whatever path you've
chosen in life. Naniwa Toastmasters Club(hereafter,
called "NTMC") is NOT an
English conversation school, but a club where
people who intend to improve
communication skills, help each other, based
on our proven activities, including
a preparation and delivery of a speech, and
a giving and receiving constructive
evaluations from other members. We're all
pretty sure we're learning by
doing!
The Tools You Use
Upon joining a Toastmasters club, each new
member receives
a variety of manuals and resources on speaking.
Members also have access to
other books as well as audio and video cassettes
on speaking and leading. They
also receive the award-winning The Toastmaster, a monthly magazine that
offers the latest insights on speaking and
leadership techniques!
Toastmasters and Leadership
Leadership cannot be learned in a day. It
takes practice.
In Toastmasters, members build leadership
skills also by organizing and
conducting meetings and motivating others
to help them. Club leadership roles
and a leadership development program also
offer opportunities to learn and
practice. Just as Toastmasters members learn
to speak simply by speaking, they
learn leadership by leading!
Community Benefits
Toastmasters has helped many members in their
community
service activities. Using the speaking and
leadership skills developed in
Toastmasters, people have become more active
in business, churches, and service
and charity organizations. Toastmasters members
are able to organize activities,
conduct meetings, and speak in public as
their organization's representative.
Some even become active in local, state or
national government!
About Toastmasters
International
Toastmasters
International is a non-profit organization
governed by a Board of Directors
elected by the membership. The first Toastmasters
club was established on
October 22, 1924, in Santa Ana, California,
by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley, who
conceived and developed the idea of helping
others to speak more effectively.
More clubs were formed, and Toastmasters
International was incorporated under
California law on December 19, 1932. Toastmasters
International's business and
services are administered by its World Headquarters,
located in Rancho Santa
Margarita, California. It employs no paid
promoters or instructors. It has no
salaried staff except the Executive Director
and World Headquarters staff, who
provide services to the clubs and Districts.
Becoming a Member
Toastmasters is for individuals 18 years
or older. The more
than 190,000 members are from a variety of
occupations and backgrounds. They
include doctors, auto mechanics, executives,
teachers, homemakers, artists,
college students, supervisors, attorneys,
engineers, salespersons, and more.
There are more than 9,300 clubs around the
world. And here in Japan, we now have
55 Toastmasters Club with two additional
clubs to be chartered soon!
Osaka Toastmasters Club, the earliest established Toastmasters
Club in Osaka, organized the second Toastmasters
Club in Osaka. The first
demonstration meeting was held on Oct.20th,
2001 at Namba
Shimin-Gakushu(Citizen's Learning) Center
on the 4th floor in OCAT with over 50 people in
attendance. And on Mar.7th, 2002, Naniwa
Toastmasters Club(#6710-76) was
chartered.
You are most welcome to join us and see for
yourself what Toastmasters is all about!
Our latest schedule
Regular meeting to be held on
Nov. 21'th (3'rd Saturday)
Dec. 19'th (3'rd Saturday)
Jan. 16'th (3'rd Saturday)
At a room in Namba Shimin-Gakushu(Citizen's
Learning) Center which is on the 4th floor
of the OCAT (Osaka City Air Terminal) building in Namba.
Please feel free to contact to our Vice President
Public Relations beforehand.
Mail to yukip_fisher@hotmail.com
Xmas Party to be held on
Dec. 19'th 17:00 -- 19:00 at cafe dining cheese gallery noa Minamisenba ( near the TOKYU HANDS Shinsaibashi), Osaka city.
Extra meeting to be held on
Feb. 6'th 14:00 -- 16:30 at Osaka citizen's learning center, Osaka city.
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Where meetings held
As we've listed all of
our upcoming meeting schedule on a
table located at the top of this page,
our regular meetings are held at a
room in Namba Shimin-Gakushu(Citizen's
Learning) Center, which is located
on the 4th floor of the OCAT(Osaka
City Air Terminal) building in Namba.
How to get the
OCAT
OCAT is situated close
to railway stations! Getting off at
"Namba Station" of Osaka City Subway
"Midousuji-Line" "Yotsubashi-Line"
(both north exit)
"Sennichimae-Line"(west exit)and Kintetsu
Line(west exit), walking through
"Namba walk" & "OCAT Walk" (both
are underground walk connected to the
stations), you get to OCAT around 10-15
minutes from each of the stations.
Please have additional 10-15 minutes
to find a room for our meeting in the
Namba Shimin-Gakushu(Citizen's Learning)
Center, and to find the Namba
Citizen's Learning Center itself on
the 4th floor of the OCAT
building, if you've never visited
there.
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2008 Summer Beer Party
We had our 2008 Summer Beer party together
on Aug. 16th, 2008, at River Cafe in Minato-machi, Namba.
.
All of them were very enjoyable with very nice atmosphere over
"all you can drink (bottom-less drink)
"
style party, at "River Cafe"
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2007 Xmas Party
We had our 2007 Xmas party together
on Dec. 15th, 2007, at Sky Banquet Emerald in Sheraton Uehonmachi
.
A unique game of "White Elephant Gift Exchange"
and "White Elephant Speech" were perfomed by
participants. Toastmasters' song was sung by everybody.
We also invited Ms Koko Kondo as a honorable guest and
she was so kind as to deliver her keynote speech.
It was so fantastic and exclusive party hosted by CC kawabe, VPpr.
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2007 Summer Beer Party
We had our 2007 Summer Beer party together
on Aug. 25th, 2007, at River Cafe in Minato-machi, Namba.
.
We had a unique game of
"Introducing my counterpart" proposed by CC Kawabe, Vppr.
All of them were very enjoyable with very nice atmosphere over
"all you can drink (bottom-less drink)
"
style party, at "River Cafe"
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2006 Christmas Party
We had our 2006 Christmas party together
with Osaka Toastmasters Club on Dec. 16th, 2006, at Hotel Green Plaza
.
Songs and performances were presented by
participants. All of them were very international
and enjoyable with very nice atmosphere over
"all you can drink (bottom-less drink)
and all you can eat(buffet style food service)"
style party, at "Hotel Green Plaza"
where was dedicated solely for ourselves
for this party at that time.
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2005 Christmas Party
We had our 2005 Christmas party together
with Osaka Toastmasters Club on Dec. 17th, 2005, at "Lipo Bar",
the main bar of Hilton Hotel Osaka, on the 2nd floor of Hilton Hotel Osaka.
Three songs and three performances were presented
by participants. All of them were very international
and enjoyable with very nice atmosphere over
"all you can drink (bottom-less drink)
and all you can eat(buffet style food service)"
style party, at "Lipo Bar" where
was dedicated solely for ourselves for this
party at that time.
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| 2005 Area 32 Tall Tale Speech Contest
Area 32 speech contest was held in Kyoto
on Oct./8 hosted by Kyoto Toas Masters Club.
Our representative ATM-B Takigawa won the
1'st place.Now she is going to attend Division
level contest.
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2005 Summer Beer Party
This year again we had the Summer Beer Party
on the roof floor of Hankyu Terminal bldg.
after 45'th regular meeting on Aug./20.
Thirty eight member including some guests
from Kansai area gathered.
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2005 Div.C Formal Speech Contest
Div.C formal speech contest was held at Kyoto
on Apr./29 charterd by Kyoto Toastmasters
club.
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2004 In-house Table Topic Speech Contest
We had again our In-house Table Topic Speech
Contest on Sep.18th, 2004, in our 34th
regular meeting held at a room of
the Namba Shimin-Gakushu(Citizen's
Learning) Center on the 4th floor of the OCAT building
Mr. Mark Saito, TM, won the first place,
followed by the 2nd place winner, Mr.
Minoru Okumura, TM, and the 3rd
place winner, Ms. Misa Kido, TM.
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2004 Summer Beer Party & Karaoke
night
This year again we had the Summer Beer Party
at Yaen on the rooftop of the Shin-Hankyu-bldg.
on Aug.28th, 2004, after our 33rd regular
meeting.
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2004 Division C officer's training in
Feb.
The Division C club officer's training
conference was held at Awaji
Yumebutai International Conference
Center on Feb. 29, 2004.
Three workshops were contributed by 3
presenters, including Mr. Ludlow Gibbons,
ATM-S, and Ms. Teruko Nakao,
ATM-B.
Our VPPR Dr. Ted Sato, TM, eraborated the
3rd workshop regarding
an aspect of responsibilities for VPPR.
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2003 Christmas Party
We had our 2003 Christmas party together
with Osaka
Toastmasters Club on Dec. 13th, 2003, at "Lipo Bar", the main
bar of
Hilton Hotel Osaka, on the 2nd floor of Hilton Hotel Osaka.
As always we enjoyed on a Bingo game, and
5
songs were presented by participants,
with very nice atmosphere over "all
you can drink (bottom-less drink) and
all you can eat(buffet style food
service)" style party, at "Lipo Bar"
where was dedicated solely for
ourselves for this party at that time.
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2003 In-house Evaluation
Contest
We had the 1st In-house evaluation contest
on Sep.20th, 2003, in our 22nd regular
meeting held at a room of the Namba
Shimin-Gakushu(Citizen's Learning)
Center on the 4th floor of the OCAT building
Dr. Ted Sato, TM, won the first place,
followed by the 2nd place winner, Ms.
Misa Kido, TM, and the 3rd place
winner, Mr. Shingo Kajiwara, TM.
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2003 Summer Beer Party & Karaoke
night
We had the another exciting Summer Beer
Party again at Yaen on the rooftop
of the Shin-Hankyu-bldg. on Jul.26th,
2003, after our 19th regular meeting.
More than 20 persons joined this opportunity
including Mr. David Malinowski who
won the Best Table Topic Speaker of the
day in our regular meeting.
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Naniwa TMC first in-house speech
contest
We had the first in-house speech contest
on
Mar.22nd, 2003, in our 15th regular
meeting held at a room of the Namba
Shimin-Gakushu(Citizen's Learning)
Center on the 4th floor of the OCAT building
Ms. Masako Hino, CTM, won the first place,
followed by the 2nd place winner, Dr.
Masataka Shiraki, TM, and the 3rd
place winner, Ms. Eri Nagayabu, TM.
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Naniwa TMC Summer Beer Party
2002
We enjoyed our very first "Summer Beer
Party" together with Osaka Toastmasters Club on Aug. 10th, 2002, at Yaen, a
Beer Garden located on the top of the
ShinHankyu Building.
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Our Charter Ceremony
We had our charter ceremony on Jun. 1st,
2002, at the Lipo Bar on the 2nd floor
of the Hilton Hotel Osaka. Dr. Ted
Sato, TM and Ms. Eri Nagayabu, TM served
as the Toastmasters of the
day.
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A message from
our president
Here you can find a
message from our president of Naniwa Toastmasters
Club.
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to become a member.
Toastmasters
International
The official webpage run
by the Toastmasters International Headquarters.
You can find complete
information regarding the toastmastering!
District
76
The official webpage run by the
District 76, a Japanese chapter of the Toastmasters
International. You can find
information regarding the toastmaster clubs
in Japan, including a complete list
of links to all of the Toastmasters Clubs
in Japan!
Link to the venue where
we have our regular meetings
We usually
have our regular meetings every month at
Namba Shimin-Gakushu(Citizen's
Learning) Center on 4th floor of OCAT(Osaka
City Air Terminal)
building
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