The Japan Society(as of 31 December 2011)

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
Shoichi Saba
Noriaki Sakamoto
John Snaith
Tetsuro Terada
Ben Thorne, CMG, MBE
Sir John Whitehead, GCMG, CVO

Officers
Chairman:Vice-Chairmen:
Treasurer:
Solicitor:

Christopher Purvis
Hitoshi Noda
George Olcott
Satoru Yoshida
Nigel WellingsOrdinary Trustees

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Ryoichi Bamba
Sir Andrew Cahn
Pauline Chakmakjian
Sean Curtin
Martin Day
Lady Gomersall

Hiroshi Hattori
Stephen McEnally
Keisaku SanoMichael Spencer
Hiroshi Suzuki
Akihiro Tsuchiya

Chief Executive:

Heidi Potter

Benefactors

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

Corporate donors and sponsors
President’s Circle (£25,000)
JTI
Nomura International Plc
Chairman’s Circle (£10,000)*¶Itochu Europe Plc*¶Mitsubishi CorporationInternational (Europe) Plc*¶Mitsui & Co Europe Plc
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group*¶Sumitomo Corporation Europe Ltd
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
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
NSK Europe Ltd*NYK Group Europe Ltd*¶PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP*¶Takeda Pharmaceuticals Europe Ltd*¶Tokyo Electrical Power Co IncCorporate 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 BVMizuho Financial GroupNikko Asset Management Europe Ltd¶Olympus KeyMedSompo Japan Insurance Co
SMBC (Europe) Ltd*The Swire Charitable Trust
Toyota (UK) Plc
UBS Investment BankCorporate Donor (£2,000)
Aberdeen Asset Management PLCAll Nippon Airways
BDO LLPDAKS Simpson Group plc*Greenback Alan LLP
Japan England Insurance Brokers Ltd
Japan Airlines
Kajima Europe Ltd*”K” Line (Europe) Ltd
Linklaters LLP
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Europe
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group

Japan Society Proceedings

5*NEC (Europe) Ltd
Ricoh (Europe) plc
Rothschild
SJ Berwin LLPToray Industries

Toshiba of EuropeTowers Watson
Winton Capital Management
WPP 2005 Ltd

Individual donors and sponsors
Patron (£2,500)
Sumitaka Fujita
Christopher & Phillida Purvis
Principal Benefactor (£1,000)
Kuniko Kitayama
Martin Barrow
Benefactor (£500)
Bill Emmott
Akihiro Tsuchiya
Principal Donor (£250)
Michael Faber
Anne Glendinning
Robert Guy
Anthony Loehnis
Boris Piermont
Heidi PotterDonor (£100)
Stephen Cohen
Clive and Vivien BradleyMarie Conte-Helm
Keiko Itoh6

Benefactors

Robin Fox
Lydia Gomersall
Kathleen Kimura
Ruth Martin
David Mytton
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
Suguru Sato
Graham Searjeant
Rie Zylinska