About 1,100 people gathered at Kanda University, Makuhari on 4 October for a pageant of Scottish traditional sounds and colour.
The massed Pipes & Drums of the Tokyo Pipe Band and judges marched past in the opening event. Spectators and competitors then enjoyed the bagpipes and drums, kilts and sporrans, Glengarry caps and tartan shawls, pipers, dancers, football, caber tossing, hammer throwing, haggis and whisky.
The Magellan Cup seven-a-side football tournament featured 10 amateur teams of many nationalities competing on astro turf.
The Japan-Scottish Highland Games is organised by the St Andrew Society of Yokohama & Tokyo, a non-profit association with ties to The Tokyo Scottish Blue Bell Club, and The Tokyo Piping Society. All profits of the games are distributed to charity.
“So many Japanese like Scottish whisky and dancing, that we wanted to bring a little piece of Scotland here once a year,” said Philip Gibb, Chieftain of the St Andrew Society of Yokohama & Tokyo.
Sponsors:
- HSBC
- Famous Grouse
- Dyson
- Whisk-e
- Deeside Water
- ANA InterContinental Tokyo
- Magellan Financial Planning
- Asian Tigers
- Wallem Shipping
- Shane English School
- Scottish Development International
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