Canada's first Asian woman judge and the author of an award winning book, "Bittersweet Passage: Redress and the Japanese Canadian Experience", Judge Omatsu will discuss her impressions of differences between Japanese and Canadian approaches to crime, prisons and sentencing. She has just returned from a visit to Japan and it confirmed her thesis that such differences are culturally relative.

Date:　Friday, November 7th, 1997 　

Time:　7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
　　　　Light refreshments to follow

Place: The Japan Foundation Toronto
　　　　131 Bloor Street West, Suite 213
　　　　Toronto, Ontario

Admission: Free. No reservation necessary

* Lecture in English. Interpreter (Kaori Miyake,lawyer) available for the question and answer period.