Category: Japan Society

Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 27

07.03.21

“You are old, Father William, the young man said, and your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head – Do you think, at your...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 26

26.02.21

It was one of those events for which I suspect all of us can remember what we were doing or where we were when we heard the news – or, for those in Japan,...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 25

11.02.21

The "Basic Policy" for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is as clear as it is uplifting. “When people look back on the Tokyo 2020 Games...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 24

17.01.21

It is mid-January and the temple bells have long since fallen silent, but it still feels appropriate to say Shinnen Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu to you all,...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 23

08.11.20

So how was it for you? No prizes for guessing to what I am referring. Obviously, it was pretty good in the end for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, less so for...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 22

02.11.20

“In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone…”. It feels a bit early to quote a Christmas carol, with...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 21

02.10.20

Every generation, as they get older, sees things happening among younger people that allows them to conclude that society must have gone mad. For me, in recent...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 20

25.09.20

I cannot pretend that these are not turbulent times, when an American president refuses to confirm that there will be a peaceful transfer of power after the US...

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Review : The Iconoclast – Shinzo Abe & the New Japan

29.08.20

With Abe Shinzo’s sudden resignation as prime minister, again on health grounds as after his first short period in office in 2007, it is right to ask what...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 15

24.07.20

Historians will tell us that four months is far too short a time for permanent social or behavioural changes to occur, even if the pandemic already feels as if...

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Japan Society: Webinar Series 13: The Pandemic and its Impact on Gender Equality in Japan and the UK

22.07.20

  Japan Society: Webinar Series 13: The Pandemic and its Impact on Gender Equality in Japan and the UK with Yoriko Goto and Heather...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 14

03.07.20

As a boy I was always more interested in subjects like history and geography than in science, but for some reason I have always remembered watching Professor...

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Japan Society: Webinar Series 12: The View from the Korean Peninsula

02.07.20

The View from the Korean Peninsula with Chung Minlee and John...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 13

26.06.20

In a week when pleasure at the prospect of returning to something closer to normal life has been balanced by concern about crowded beaches and a stubborn...

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Japan Society: Webinar Series 11: The Future of Travel & Tourism in a Post COVID-19 World

19.06.20

The Future of Travel and Tourism in a Post COVID-19 World with David Atkinson, Timothy Jenkins and Martin...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 12

19.06.20

The news, from this week’s webinar, that in the year when our speaker and Japan Society veteran Martin Barrow first visited Japan in 1964 the country...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 11

12.06.20

If recent events have taught us anything, it is that in these British Isles we are rather nicer to our famous past writers than we are to the historical...

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Japan Society: Webinar Series 10: International Financial Centres: the Future for London and Tokyo

11.06.20

International Financial Centres: the Future for London and Tokyo with Michael Mainelli and Hiroshi...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 10

05.06.20

In cricket, that English national sport that arrived in Meiji Japan a good decade before baseball but sadly was superseded, there is a saying called “the...

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Japan Society: Webinar Series 9: The Energy Outlook for the Post Pandemic World

04.06.20

The Energy Outlook for the Post Pandemic World with Jun Arima and Nick...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 9

29.05.20

There can be no doubt that the pandemic and associated lockdown has at times been a test for our imaginations, although the idea of taking a nearly 60-mile...

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Japan Society: Webinar Series 8: Work, During and After the Pandemic

28.05.20

Work, During and After the Pandemic with Lynda...

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Japan Society Chairman’s Blog – 8

22.05.20

Vladimir Lenin, the former exile in London whom your chairman has at times been accused of resembling, was a fine provider of useful quotations. One of the...

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Japan Society: Webinar Series 7: The Effect of the Pandemic on Diplomatic and Commercial Relations with China

21.05.20

The Effect of the Pandemic on Diplomatic and Commercial Relations with China with Kerry Brown and Akio...

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