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The International Public Relations class with Tom Schieffer, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan. The students also visited Bloomberg-Tokyo, Newsweek Tokyo Bureau Chief Christian Caryl and the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan Thursday.

Students visited the United States Embassy on Thursday afternoon and met with the U.S. ambassador to Japan, J. Thomas Schieffer. Schieffer has served as ambassador since April 2005. He spoke to the students about his job and then took questions.

The meeting was set up by Indiana University alum David M. Marks, press attaché, U.S. Embassy. Marks, who studied history at IU, told the students he also took a journalism course with Professor Owen Johnson.

In the morning, the students visited Bloomberg and met with reporter Bradley Martin, a North Korea expert and author of Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty.

Martin has covered Asia for many years, working for Newsweek, the Asian Wall Street Journal and other outlets.

The final event of the day was a visit to the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan.

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