TAC is trying to prioritize members over the guests that visit our club. Below are changes that will go into effect as a three month trial.
• Guest access to the Club is limited to the first-floor Formal and Family entrances and the B1 Family entrance.
• Guests must be signed in by a Member at one of the entrances. (This is an existing rule that has not been enforced.)
• Guests will receive a guest pass, which acts as a receipt for any guest fees paid.
• Members are required to escort guests at all times while around the Club.
• Management may occasionally request to see Membership credentials or guest passes.
What do you think?
Hi Mr. Jonves, you seem to have a lot of info on the TAC. I’m in the US, but actually wanted to make use of the TAC while my daughter visits her mother in Japan this summer. Of course, they require any Temporary Membership to have a standard member sponsor. How do foreigners who don’t know anybody handle that problem? Are there standard members who volunteer to be sponsors? It’s not exactly easy to just stroll over to the club and ask someone while being across the pond. BTW, I’m not sure if posts go to email, but please email me if you do respond (ewalker84z@hotmail.com)
This is what happens when you betray the founders of The Tokyo American Club who in 1928 were all expelled from the private clubs in Tokyo and started their own so it would never happen again.
They were always worried, which is why they and their postwar members instituted an English, Backround Check and Quota system to protect the American and International Community.
It never entered their mind that future Americans would sell their birthright to Mitsubishi Estate for a retirement payment and after 80 years, the Great Depression, World War II, the Bubble the Japanese would take it over too.
Let’s meet – I’m about all you have goong?
Why is anyone surprised. First, they removed English on 2010 and no Backround check. Then the 40% American/30% Foreign/30% Japanese quota. Then removed the non-profit status to let the Japsnese takeover. What did they think would happen? Shame!