MOUNTAINEERS FROM JAPAN

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29389, 16 December 1960, Page 2

MOUNTAINEERS FROM JAPAN

Goodwill Tour Of New Zealand

A party of five Japanese women mountaineers will arrive in New Zealand in January on a mountaineering and goodwill tour of more than four months.

All are experienced mountaineers. Thev will climb Mount Cook. Their visit is being made at the invitation of the New Zealand-Janan Society and the New Zealand Aloine Club.

The party includes Mrs Teru Sato, ased 56, a pioneer woman mountaineer, who is a consulting engineer and fashion desiener for a Tokyo apparel firm. O*her members of the team will be M’ss Hiroko Mori, a television photographer and journalist; Miss Nobuko Goto and Mrs Keiko Kawai, of the staff of “Fuiin Gaho.” a women’s fashion magazine: and Miss Kyoko Tamura, a school teacher. ■

Mrs Kawai. whn is 24, took nart in the 1958 Waseda University expedition to tropical Africa which ellmbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

To introduce Japanese culture to New Zealanders, the visitors will bring motion pictures and slides showing asnects of life in Japan. They will also demonstrate various Japanese arts, such as dancing, flower arrangement, harn-plaving and cookery, during ♦heir around-New Zealand tour by ear. They will arrive In Christchurch on January 22.