ESUJ hosted Prof.Roger Pulvers for an open lecture at the International
 House on November 12, 2002. The subject he chose was "The Theatrical
 Japanese: From Miyazawa Kenji to the Avant-Garde Theater. Fluent in
 Japanese and a connoisseur of Japanese food, he was once the object
 of intense study and scrutiny by a fellow customer in a susi restaurant
 who was dumbfounded by Mr Pulver's expert choice of susi.
 One of his interesting comments: Japanese Culture is like an Oyako
 Donburi. Basically the bowl is filled with white rice (Yamato culture
 represented by Kyoto and Nara) with an overlay of some of the basic
 features of the Continental (Chinese) culture,adapted scrutinized and
 purified. The half-cooked egg on it represents sui,the "chic"Edo cul-
 ture, all to be savored together like the oyako-donburi.