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The IT & Technology Recruitment Company of the Year: Michael Page Byron Sato, director of financial services and legal, and Joshua Ferris, director of technology, accepted the award on behalf of the firm.

The Best Executive Search Company of the Year: CDS John Tucker, chief executive officer of CDS

The Best Newcomer: Spring Professional Japan Davide Bellocchio, manager of engineering, and Lanis Yarzab, managing director, picked up the firm’s award.

The Growth Company of the Year: Randstad Cameron Brett, director of professionals division at Randstad, addressed attendees.

The International Recruitment Company of the Year: Robert Walters Japan Shigeki Yaginuma, marketing manager of Japan and Korea, and Tomokazu Betzold, director of information technology

British Chamber of Commerce in Japan (BCCJ) President David Bickle, Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Japan National Tourism Organization President Ryoichi Matsuyama attended “Olympic lessons learned” at the ANA InterContinental Tokyo.

BCCJ Executive Committee (Excom) members Jonty Brunner and Reiko Sakimura, Chancellor of the University of Oxford Lord Patten CH, BCCJ President David Bickle and BCCJ Excom member Alison Beale attended “Who will win the 21st century” at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo.

British Consul-General Michael Shearer OBE (centre) and Esther Williams, head of trade development at UK Trade & Investment Japan, met exhibitors at the Hankyu British Fair 2015 in Osaka.

First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones and British racing driver Struan Moore attended the departure of a UK-branded Nissan Leaf on an 11-day tour, from Tokyo to Kobe, to promote partnership between Japan and the UK at the British Embassy Tokyo.

Senior representatives from 32 universities in Japan and the UK attended the second Japan–UK Universities Conference for Collaboration in Research and Education, co-hosted by the British Council and Keio University, at Keio University.

A Royal Air Force (RAF) A400M Atlas transport aircraft visited a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) base in Miho, Tottori Prefecture, in the first landing of an RAF aircraft at a JASDF base.

Crew from 70 Squadron and 24 Squadron based in RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, met their counterparts in the JASDF 403 Squadron of the 3rd Tactical Aircraft Wing.

The Band of The Coldstream Guards performed at the third British Armed Forces Day event, symbolising friendship and collaboration in East Asia, at the British Embassy Tokyo on 14 October.

A member of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Central Band played taiko.

A member of the band of The Coldstream Guards performed a traditional Scottish highland dance.

Graham Davis, British Chamber of Commerce in Japan (BCCJ) Executive Committee (Excom)member, and Rowan Conway, director of research and innovation at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, spoke at a BCCJ event, “Volunteers, Community and Legacy—How 2020 Can Change Japan”, at the ANA Intercontinental Tokyo.

BCCJ ACUMEN publisher and BCCJ Excom member Simon Farrell (left) and Iain Ferguson, BCCJ Excom member and president of Lloyd’s Japan Inc., attended a speech by Inga Beale, chief executive of Lloyd’s of London, at the Keidanren (Japan Business Federation).

BCCJ President David Bickle, BCCJ Excom member Steve Crane, Global Sporting Events Assistant Nina Oiki and BCCJ Executive Director Lori Henderson MBE attended a BCCJ event with F1 driver Jenson Button MBE in Minato Ward.

The first workshop of Playable City Tokyo—a platform that invites people to think differently about the city and generate social dialogue through play—launched by the British Council in partnership with the Watershed media centre, Bristol, was held at Toranomon Hills.

Ashley Harvey, VisitBritain; Catherine Fannin-Peel, Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust; VisitBritain interns Taka Ueta and Sunny Gladish; Katie Bentley, Marketing Birmingham; and Tomoko Hisaki and Katsue Takeshima, VisitBritain, hosted a Heart of England event at the British Embassy Tokyo.

Japan Matsuri 2015, a festival of Japanese culture celebrating the friendship between Japan and the UK—and in particular, this year, the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Satsuma Students—was held in London on 19 September. Highlights included appearances by special guests and Kagoshima mascots, as well as displays of fashion, sport, music and dance.

Members of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan (BCCJ) and guests attended the BCCJ’s event “Great British Garden Party” at the Andaz Tokyo.

John Bercow MP, speaker of the House of Commons, gave a lecture entitled “History & Workings of the UK Parliament in the 800th year of the Magna Carta” at the British Embassy Tokyo.

Philip Hammond, British foreign secretary, visited BT Japan to discuss the cyber challenges facing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and lessons to be learned from London 2012.

Keshini Navaratnam, former BBC World TV news anchor, and Cherie Blair QC CBE, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, participated in WAW! 2015, the World Assembly for Women, at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa in Minato Ward.

Tsutomu Matsuda, Rugby World Cup (RWC) 2019 ambassador, Shintaro Nakano, child mascot of the Jaguar Land Rover (RWC) 2015 campaign, and British Ambassador to Japan Tim Hitchens CMG LVO attended a RWC 2015 gala reception at the British Embassy Tokyo.

More than 20 young researchers participated in an intercultural workshop hosted by RENKEI, the Japan–UK Research and Education Network for Knowledge Economy Initiatives at University College London.

Guests attended the opening of Sir Thomas Lipton Tea House Ginza in Chuo Ward.

The Royal Opera House performed Don Giovanni at the NHK Hall in Shibuya Ward on 13 September and Macbeth at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan in Taito Ward on 13 September.

The Scottish Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop (centre) joined guests at a golf-related event at the British Embassy Tokyo on 29 May.