No. 455 regular meeting was held on December 10, 2016 at MinaPark in Fujisawa. We were so glad to have one honorable member and 2 guests in the meeting.

President Chen called No. 455 meeting to order.
TM A. S. explained “ Word of the Day”. The word was “Tangible (adjective) / Tangibility (Noun) “.
The Declaration Ceremony was held for our new member, TM Y. T. Welcome and Congratulations!

President Chen introduced the TMOD, TM A. M. TMOD encouraged members and guests to enjoy the meeting together. Then, Grammarian TM K.T., Ah-Uh Counter A.S., Vote Counter TM Y.H., and Timers TM E.M. explained their roles briefly. The role takers had got ready to support the meeting.

Joke Session relaxes the audience. The Joke Master TM M. H. told three funny stories of his three friends. Every member was fascinated with her funny story!

At Prepared Speech Session, we had 5 mature and talented speakers.
The first speaker TM T. K. delivered the speech titled “Small power plant at the balcony”. His story was very curious. He made a power plant at the balcony. This is why he took the disaster recovery from the heavy disaster such as earthquake into consideration. His story developed the sustainable energy such as solar energy. Food for thoughts! I’ve learned a lot from his tangible explanation.
The second speaker TM A. U. delivered the speech titled “My turning point”. It was his first speech, Ice Breaker. Recounting his boyhood and encountering his wife anecdotes! What an impressing story reaching out to every member!
The third speaker TM L. C. delivered again his background titled “Who am I?” as ice breaker. He introduced himself and the way to think about! I was very attractive with his developing story!
The fourth speaker TM N. S. delivered her speech titled “Are you a Mary Poppins or a Hemingway?”. She was a gifted speaker and succeed in grabbing the audience attention by the photos. I’ve learned “The drunker consisted of 4 types” through her speech! I was stimulated by her curious story telling!
The fifth speaker TM Y.W. delivered his speech titled “Earth Science”. He proposed us whether we used the atomic energy or not in the future. In comparison with the renewable energy such as solar and wind power, he pointed out the atomic energy both the advantage points and disadvantage ones. It was a food for thoughts!

The next session was The Table Topics Session that conducted by TM T. K.
Q1:「君の名は。」「君の名は」In English, your name. But there is a clear difference between the two. A punctuation mark is added or not. One is the title of the famous movie in 62 years ago. And the other is the worldwide hit animation. Have you ever seen the both of movies or one of the two? Please speak about these movies. TM A.T. answered it. Although he didn’t see both of them, his answer was very nice.
Q2: Starting from the next US president Trump, Putin in Russia, Park in South Korea and etc., some great changes would be considered from now on. Compared with prime minister Abe, what is your political opinions of leadership in the future? This question was answered by two members, TM T. O. and TM Y. H..
Q3: At last, the first female governor of Tokyo, Koike Yuriko was born. How do you think of woman’s power including Toyosu , 2020 Tokyo Olympic games and her daily fashions also? TM H.M. gave a nice answer.
Q4: Especially in this autumn, Halloween decoration and parties could be seen everywhere. Now, Halloween festival is more popular than ever before. How do you think of this phenomenon? This question was given to today’s guest, TM S.K..
Q5: Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year’s single Novel Prize for medicine for his work “Autophagy”-the science of how cells breakdown and recycle their content. Japanese awarded the Novel Prize three years successively. How do you think of it? This question was answered perfectly by TM C.M., he won the Table Topics Award.

The Award Presentation

The TMOD Award: TM A. U.
The Best Table Topics Speaker: TM C. M.
The Best Evaluator: TM N. N.
The Best-Prepared Speaker: TM N. S.

At last, today’s two guests delivered a comment.
Mrs. Y. T. moved forward to the front and declared the TMC oath at the declaration ceremony.
The meeting was closed successfully and fruitfully. Thanks for all role takers and attendance.