Events 2011

Annual Events
25 JanLecture by the British Ambassador in Tokyo, David Warren at The Cavalry and Guards Club

15 JunAnnual General Meeting of the Japan Society at the Embassy of Japan

18 SepJapan Matsuri 2011 at County Hall

1 Oct

Collar Cup Golf Tournament against JCCI at The Buckinghamshire Golf Club

6 Dec

Japan Society Annual Dinner - featuring Motoki Hirai’s Picture Book Suite at the Hotel Russell

Arts & Culture
28 MarVisit, Reception and Talk at the BADA Antiques and Fine Art Fair at the Duke of York Square

21 MayEnglish Green / Japanese Green: Private View and Talk with the artist Ryutaro Ikeda

16 AugTwice Bombed: special film screening at Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

3 Sep

Japanese Cultural Experience Day at the Nippon Club

8 Sep

IWC award winning Sake tasting at The Japanese Embassy

4 Oct

2nd East Asian Friendship Charity Event - a concert featuring young musicians at St Lawrence Jewry

14 OctJapanese Enamels: The Seven Treasures Gallery Talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum with Gregory Irvine

10 Nov

An Evening of Japanese Vaudeville: Rakugo and Papercutting at the Nippon ClubBusinessLunchtime Lectures (At JETRO unless otherwise stated.)
2 Feb‘To Whom Does a Company Belong?’, Scott Hopkins, Co-Chair of The British-Japanese Law Association
28 Feb‘Keeping Pace with Technology- the Nissan Experience’, Professor Andy Palmer, Senior Vice 			President, The Nissan Motor Co.

20 Jul‘Maritime Piracy’, Richard Neylon, Holman Fenwick Willan LLP

4 Oct‘The Future for UK and Japanese Defense Industries’, Professor Trevor Taylor and Sir Graham Fry, Chaired byLord West at RUSI

9 Nov

‘Prospects for Pharmaceuticals: A forum with UK Trade and Investment (UKTI)’, Jun Arima of JETRO, Jon
Mowles of UKTI, Nigel Whittle of UKTI, Chaired by Anil Vaidya of UKTIJoint Lunches with JCCI - Guests of Honour (At The National Liberal Club unless otherwise stated.)
24 MarBill Emmott, International Author and Advisor - ‘The Fate of the Euro’
19 AprChris Aylett, CEO Motorsport Industry Association (MIA) - ‘The UK’s World Leadership in the Business ofMotorsport’

25 Nov

The Rt Hon The Lord Malloch-Brown, former Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office- ‘Economics of the Arab Spring’

Other
14 Mar‘Japanese Foreign Policy in the Asian Theatre’ by Mitoji Yabunaka, Adviser to Nomura Research Institute andFormer Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs at Nomura

27 Jun‘Working in a Multinational Corporation’: a lecture and discussion session for future leaders by Eiji Wakiwaka,
former President of BP Japan, at Crane & Tortoise

28 SepLunchtime Discussion with Lord Green, Minister of Trade at The Department of Enterprise and 			Trade at Linklaters

14 Nov

Reimagining Japan Panel Discussion & Book Launch (with Asia House and McKinsey & Co) at McKinsey & Co

12 Dec‘The Euro’ by Andrew Smithers at Aberdeen Asset Management

Chairman’s Lunches - Private, off the record lunches with an informal talk by the guest of honour
7 Jun
Barbara Woodward, International Director of the UK Border Agency at HSBC28 Jun

Glen S. Fukushima, Senior Vice President, Airbus SAS, Chairman & Director, Airbus KK at SJ Berwin

29 Nov

Sir Peter Bonfield, Director, Sony Corporation, Member, Sony Corporation Advisory Board at UBSLectures
Japan Society Lectures
17 Jan‘Definitely in My Back Yard: Nuclear Power and Hometown Identity in Late-Twentieth Century Japan’ by Dr
Martin Dusinberre, Lecturer in Modern Japanese History, Newcastle University, at the Oriental Club

21 Feb‘Japanese Homeless Men in International Comparative Perspective’ by Dr Tom Gill, Professor of Social
Anthropology, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama at the Oriental Club10 MarEnough to Surprise Hiroshige, ‘One Hundred Famous Views of the City’ by Kenji Sakatsugi at the Oriental Club

21 Mar‘Images and Openings of Japan: An Exploration of some Major Themes and Myths in Japanese International
History from Kamikaze and Kurofune, to Sakoku and Rangaku’ by William McOmie, Professor, Faculty ofForeign Languages, Kanagawa University, Yokohama at the Oriental Club

18 Apr‘Art Historicism’ and Contemporary Japanese Art by Dr John Szostak, Assistant Professor of Japanese Art
History, University of Hawaii, Honolulu at SOAS

20 Jun‘Midwife and Manga Heroine: Oine Siebold, Nagasaki and the Birth of Modern Japan’ by Dr Ulrich Heinze,
Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Media, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts andCultures and Centre for Japanese Studies at University of East Anglia at SOAS

18 JulCarmen Blacker Lecture: ‘Initiatic landscape’ and Shugendo’s Mountain-Entry by Professor Anne Bouchy,
Director of Studies of the Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient, Paris and Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail atSOAS, co-organised with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures

15 Aug‘Japanese Enamels: The Seven Treasures’ by Gregory Irvine, Senior Curator, Asian Department of the Victoriaand Albert Museum at SOAS

19 Sep‘Then and Now: Japanese Investment in the UK’ by Dr Sierk Horn, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies,
University of Leeds at SOAS

17 Oct‘Creating Impressions of Colonial Korea: The Role Played by the Japan Society and its Membership, 19101939’ by Dr Susan House-Wade at the Oriental Club

24 Oct‘The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn: How did this Greek-Irishman Conquer Japan?’ by Roger Pulvers at the Oriental Club

2 Nov

‘Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves’ by Sheldon Garon, Nissan Professor ofHistory and East Asian Studies, Princeton University, at SOAS co-organised with the Japan Research Centre

7 Nov‘Geeky-Girly Innovation: A Japanese Subculturist’s Guide to Technology and Design’ by Morinosuke
Kawaguchi, Principal Associate Director at Arthur D. Little (Japan) Inc. and lecturer at the Tokyo Institute ofTechnology at the Chelsea College of Art and Design

9 Nov‘Facts of Life, and More: Exhibiting Japanese Art in the UK since 2000’ by Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon
Gallery at the Oriental Club

21 Nov‘Meiji Nostalgia: Prints by Kawakami Sumio (1895-1972)’ by Monika Hinkel, Research Associate, Japan
Research Centre, SOAS, at the Oriental Clubin Association with Other Organizations
27 Jan‘Uncertain Futures: The Individual, Society and the State in the UK and Japan. Managing Public Debt and Social
Challenges’ with the Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation at Daiwa Foundation Japan House
18 Nov‘Keeping Japan on the Map’, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Sasakawa Lectureship Programme
Conference at Birkbeck College

30 Nov‘Tama the Cat: The Book and its Author’, Lecture by Robert Ogden on the Maneki Neko (welcoming cat) with
the Japan Room at Freemasons’ Hall

Lifestyle
20 JanKoshu Wine Tasting at the Imagination Gallery

10 FebNight of Rock with Japanese Metallica Tribute Band – Hattallica! at the Pipeline Bar1 MarNiigata Sake Brewers Association Sushi & Sake Tasting at the Saki Bar & Food Emporium

26 MayTea Tasting with the East India Company at the East India Company

28 MayTrooping the Colour, The Major General’s Review, special seats for Japan Society Members

2 Jun

Japan Society Golf Tournament at the Old Thorns Golf & Country Estate

8 Jun

Organic Wine, Food Tasting and Talk at Tsuru RestaurantBook Club (Held on the second Monday of each month at Waterstones 5th View, unless otherwise stated.)
13 JanHarp of Burma by Takeyama Michio
14 Feb

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Ogawa Yoko

7 MarSilence by Endo Shusaku

11 AprNorwegian Wood by Murakami Haruki

9 May

Geisha in Rivalry by Nagai Kafu

11 JunKitchen by Banana Yoshimoto11 JulWho is Mr Satoshi Special Discussion and Reading with author Jonathan Lee at the Oriental Club

8 Aug

Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Kouno Fumiyo

12 SepThe Devotion of Suspect X by Higashino Keigo

10 Oct

The Waiting Years by Enchi Fumiko

14 Nov

The Devil’s Whisper by Miyabe Miyuki

12 Dec‘1Q84’ (Book 1) by Murakami Haruki

Japanese Conversation Group
Held on the first Tuesday of every month at The Old Explorer Puv
16 AprJapanese Conversation Group Hanami Picnic at the Kensington Gardens

Schools Education
Language Classes for Pre-Intermediate Level Students
At Toray Industries, Inc.
Three ten week courses: 2 Feb - 6 Apr; 18 Apr - 20 Jul; 28 Sep - 30 Nov
SchoolsAll YearAll Year
All Year
14 Oct10 Nov
11 Nov
15 NovJapan in Your Classroom school visits. During 2011, 70 visits were made to schools throughout the UK.
School Links. Approximately 11 new links have been created in the year, with over 70 school partnerships
now using the Japan UK LIVE! website and related services to develop their links.
Resources. Artefacts and materials for use in the classroom are on loan to schools throughout the year. ReadySteady NihonGO! language materials for primary schools are available on CD or via the Japan Society website.
Japan Conference for Schools in partnership with the Japan Foundation and Embassy of JapanImamaru Hayashiya: Paper Cutting Workshop
6th Form Day: A Global Perspective, A Door to New Oportunities. Day of activities for 150 sixth form students
and teachers, in association with Ritsumeikan University
School Study Visit and International Partnership Seminar for a delegation of teachers and local authority
representatives from Ehime Prefecture

Small Grants
All Year

As at 27th October 2011, grants totalling some £12,423 have been awarded through the Japan Society. SmallGrants programme in support of grass roots activities throughout the UK..

Earthquake Events
Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March, the Society established the Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fundto deliver medium and long-term support for the recovery. While the Society organized few fundraising events itself,
it provided advice and support to others. As of 31 October 2011, some £640,000 had been raised and was being
distributed in partnership with the Sanaburi Foundation, Sendai, to local NPOs and voluntary organizations.
Through the ‘Messages to Japan’ project, some 6,000 letters and cards from pupils at over 100 British schools were sent
to schools in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures.
16 May‘After the Shock: Prospects for Recovery and Reconstruction in Post-quake Japan’, with Peter Sammonds,Phillida Purvis, Malcolm C Grimston and Martin Dusinberre, moderated by Christopher Gerteis, at SOAS incollaboration with the Japan Research Centre

4 Jun

Fund-raising Luncheon and charity auction at Umu Restaurant

17 JunNICHI-EI NO KIZUNA - Japan-UK Bonds of Friendship: Episodes From a Life in Theatre, An Evening with Simon
McBurney at the Embassy of Japan

15 July

Cello Recital by Steven Isserlis at the Residence of the Japanese Ambassador

5-30 Sep ‘Beyond Words - Beyond Borders: Messages to Tohoku’ An exhibition of the Japan Society Schools
Partnerships Programme and the Earthquake Letter Project at the Embassy of Japan
10-11 Sep Akari Project: Workshops and Night Carnival Procession at the Mayor’s Thames Festival
11 OctReport from Tohoku: Christopher & Phillida Purvis at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity