Hiroshi Sato, the Consul General of Japan, will present Japan: Recovery, Challenges, and Opportunity at Belmont UMC on Friday, February 24, at 6:00 p.m. He will discuss Japan’s recovery from last year’s earthquake and tsunami, as well as other issues facing Japan. Consul General Sato has been in Foreign Service since 1973 and posted in Nashville since 2008. In this job he serves Japanese visitors in five southeastern states including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and works with Japanese cultural and business interests in the area. Consul General Sato was posted in New York in the 1990s as First Secretary to the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations. He has represented Japan in diplomatic posts in the United States, China, Egypt, the Philippines, New Zealand, and Malaysia. This talk is presented by the Nashville Cordell Hull Chapter of the United Nations Association-USA and is open to the public.