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Brave Conversations, Positive Transformations.
Embassy
Strength to strength
Publisher
Labour of love
Executive Director
Journeying forward
President
Passing the baton
AGM
Changing of the guard
Paralympics
Tokyo 2020: how did we do?
In focus
Bccj member highlight: Robert Walters Japan
AND IT’S GOODBYE FROM HIM
So. Farewell. Then. BCCJ Acumen
DESPATCHES
Life after Tokyo
Charity
Animal Refuge Kansai 2022
NPO
REI Update
Book review
An illustrated guide to Samurai history and culture: from the age of Musashi to contemporary pop culture
Publicity
Dream Team
History
Myth and Reality
Creative
Painful issues
NPO
Cyclists United
Publicity
Uniquely the British School in Tokyo
Embassy
From Social Club to Business Hub
NEW MEMBER
Civvy Street, Tokyo
Obituary
Henry Scott-Stokes
Embassy
End of an era
Publicity
Malvern College Tokyo
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May / June 2021
400 years later
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Mar / Apr 2021
What’s past is prologue
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Mar / Apr 2021
What’s past is prologue
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Jan / Feb 2021
William Adams memorial
History
The English samurai
History
February 2019
Ships that pass in the night
Wreckage sheds light on 19th-century UK–Japan trade
History
December 2018
First Briton in Japan
William Adams (1564–1620)
History
November 2018
British Foreign Secretaries and Japan, 1850–1990
Aspects of the Evolution of British Foreign Policy
History
October 2018
Past, present and future
History
September 2018
Recent history of the BCCJ
In pictures
History
August 2018
Coals to Newcastle ...
... or selling electronics to Japan (Part III)
History
August 2018
The British samurai
Tracing the life and journey of William Adams
History
July 2018
Coals to Newcastle ...
... or selling electronics to Japan (Part II)
History
June 2018
Coals to Newcastle ...
... or selling electronics to Japan (Part I).
History
May 2018
Britain and Japan: A close relationship
Documenting the figures behind the two countries’ ties
History
Turning the page
Old issues of BCCJ magazine reveal evolution of UK–Japan ties
History
March 2018
Happy Birthday, BCCJ!
It’s our Platinum jubilee (1948-2018): Part II
History
February 2018
Happy Birthday, BCCJ!
It’s our Platinum jubilee (1948-2018): Part I
History
June 2017
Shared history
The Sengan-en stately home in Kagoshima sits at the heart of UK–Japan relations
History
October 2016
Karma Chameleon
A life between contradictions
History
September 2016
Summer retreat
Symbol of UK–Japan friendship is reborn
History
August 2016
Japan’s isle of modern ruin
Past and future of Gunkanjima
History
February 2014
Great Legacy of “Japan’s Keynes”
On a very cold snowy morning, about 100 armed soldiers barged into my great-grandfather’s residence in Akasaka and ruthlessly murdered him.
History
August 2013
Blood Diaries
Research by a historian at The University of Manchester indicates that soldiers of all nations who fought in the Far East during World War II were partly radicalised to commit atrocities by their own diaries.
History
April 2013
Truth and Lies
A former British soldier has written what is probably the most authoritative and painstakingly researched book on the 1942 fall of Singapore.
History
January 2013
Helping the Enemy
A new book by a World War II veteran has shed light on a little-known postscript to the conflict in the Far East—and one that was officially denied by the UK government of the day.
History
September 2012
The Namamugi Incident
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Namamugi Incident, the conflict in which samurai killed a British trader, resulting in feudal Japan being brought into the modern era.
Past issues
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May / June 2022 issue
Brave Conversations, Positive Transformations.
Strength to strength
Labour of love
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Jan / Feb 2022 issue
Carolyn Davidson
The other Japan
Brave Conversations, Positive Transformations
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Nov / Dec 2021 issue
2021 British Business Awards
Britons gonged for great deeds
New horizons
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Sept / Oct 2021 issue
Being Black and British in Japan
UK–Japan trade ties
Finding Black in the Union Jack (and Japan)
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July / Aug 2021 issue
Trade: Tables Turned
Para aims high
Into new terrain
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May / June 2021 issue
Benefits of a British education in Japan
Exporting education
Notes from the Executive Director’s desk
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