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BCCJ Executive Director Lori Henderson was appointed MBE( Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for services to post-earthquake reconstruction and the British business community in Japan. The investiture was at Buckingham Palace on 7 June( see page 11).
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Attending the BCCJ’ s Running a Railways from Central Japan to the World event on 18 June at the Shangri-la Hotel Tokyo were( from left): BCCJ Executive Director Lori Henderson MBE; Yoshiyuki Kasai, chairman of the Central Japan Railway Company; BCCJ President Alison Jambert; and BCCJ Executive Committee Member Graham Davis, head of thought leadership and events at The Economist Group( Asia / Pacific) Limited.
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Prime Minister David Cameron welcomes Japan’ s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the G8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on 18 June.
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British Ambassador Tim Hitchens addressed a crowd at the Japan British Society’ s annual Gala Party at the ambassador’ s residence on 25 June.
ANNIVERSARY CHARITY
Admiring a replica of John Saris’ diary are Professor Timon Screech( left), head of History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and co-chair of the Japan400 organising committee, and British Ambassador Tim Hitchens at the British Embassy Tokyo on 11 June( see page 21).
Celebrating a grand achievement are( from left) Richard Williams, Nick Rees, Tony Collins, Robert Williams, John Stanton, Ian Smith, Jon Hindley and temporary housing residents and volunteers from the Save Minamisoma Project. In Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on 1 June, the cyclists feted their 340km ride from Tokyo to Minamisoma that had raised ¥ 3mn for the project.
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