The Japan Society(as of 31 December 2012)

Patron

HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVOPresident
HE The Japanese Ambassador, Mr Keiichi Hayashi

Honorary Vice-Presidents
Sir Hugh Cortazzi, GCMG
Shin Ebihara
Hiroaki Fujii
Haruko Fukuda OBE
Sadayuki Hayashi
Hiroshi Kitamura
Prof. Ian Nish CBE
Yoshiji Nogami

Masaki Orita
Christopher Purvis CBE
Noriaki Sakamoto
John Snaith
Tetsuro Terada
Ben Thorne CMG MBE
The Viscount Trenchard
Sir John Whitehead GCMG CVO

Officers
Chairman:Vice-Chairmen:

Treasurer:
Solicitor:
Editor:Sir David Warren KCMGDavid Cairns
Hitoshi Noda
George Olcott
Satoru Yoshida
Nigel Wellings
Alison Scott

Ordinary Trustees

4Sir Andrew Cahn
Pauline Chakmakjian
Martin Day
Lady Gomersall		Hiroshi Hattori

Graham Holman
Stephen McEnally
Michael Spencer
Tetsuro Terada
Akihiro Tsuchiya

Chief Executive:

Heidi Potter

Organization & Benefactors

Benefactors
The Japan Society is grateful to the companies, organizations andinvididuals who have contributed financially to its work. Their generous
support, both for the general mission and for the schools education work,
is invaluable. All or part of the donation from companies marked withan asterisk (*) has been designated in support of the schools educationand small grants programmes. Those with a pilcrow sign (¶) have given
their support through a five year agreement.

Corporate donors and sponsors
President’s Circle (£25,000)
JTI
Mitsubishi Corporation International (Europe) Plc
Nomura International Plc

Chairman’s Circle (£10,000)
Itochu Europe Plc
Sumitomo Corporation Europe Ltd
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Mitsui & Co Europe Plc

Corporate Patron (£7,500)*¶Astellas Pharma Inc*¶Canon Europe Ltd*¶Central Japan Railway Company*¶Chugai Pharma Europe Ltd*¶Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd*¶Eisai Europe Ltd
Mizuho Financial GroupNSK Europe Ltd*NYK Group Europe Ltd*¶PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP*¶Takeda Pharmaceuticals Europe Ltd

Corporate Benefactor (£5,000)
BAE Systems plc
Clifford Chance LLP
Dai-ichi Life International Europe
Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd¶Hitachi Europe Ltd
HSBC Holdings International
The Japan Centre Group Ltd
KPMG LLP
Marubeni (Europe) Plc*Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV
Nikko Asset Management Europe Ltd¶Olympus KeyMed
Sompo Japan Insurance Co
SMBC (Europe) Ltd*The Swire Charitable Trust
Toyota (UK) Plc
UBS Investment Bank

Corporate Donor (£2,000)
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC
All Nippon Airways
BDO LLPDAKS Simpson Group plc*Greenback Alan LLPJapan England Insurance Brokers Ltd
Japan Airlines
Kajima Europe Ltd*”K” Line (Europe) Ltd¶Linklaters LLP
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Europe
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group*NEC (Europe) Ltd
Ricoh (Europe) plc

Japan Society Proceedings

5Rothschild
SJ Berwin LLP
Tokio Marine Europe Insurance Ltd
Toray Industries

Toshiba of Europe
Winton Capital Management
WPP 2005 Ltd

Individual donors and sponsors
Patron (£2,500)
Christopher & Phillida Purvis

Principal Benefactor (£1,000)
Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Martin Barrow

Benefactor (£500)
Bill Emmott
Akihiro Tsuchiya

Principal Donor (£250)
Michael Faber
Anne Glendinning
Robert Guy
Anthony Loehnis
Heidi PotterDonor (£100)
Clive and Vivien BradleyCharles Dinwiddy
Robin Fox
Lydia Gomersall
Paul Hearn
Keiko Itoh6

Organization & Benefactors

Kathleen Kimura
Ruth Martin
David Mytton
Noriko Ogawa
George Olcott
Pernille Rudlin
Andrew Smithers

Individual Supporter (£58)
Mark Allsup
D G R Bentliff
Anthony Cormack
Brendan Griggs
Christopher Hoggarth
Suzanne Hudson
Yasko Kurahachi
James Noble
Sir Michael Palliser
Suzanne Perrin
Matthew Roberts
Graham Searjeant
Rie Zylinska