1613: The first British ship sails into Hirado’s harbour… It’s a little known fact that the first recorded direct shipment of Japanese goods to England included a collection of erotic pictures, or shunga. Carrying the lascivious library, together with … Continued
Asian Affairs, May 2013David Watts meets Sanjiv Mehta, chairman and managing director of the reborn East India Company, who has big plans for this global luxury brand with an outstanding pedigree.
First Broadcast Thursday 4 April 2013 at 9am Duration:43 minutes Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Japan’s Sakoku period, two centuries when the country deliberately isolated itself from the outside world. Sakoku began with a series of edicts in the … Continued
Londoners Diary, Friday 8 February 2013 Earlier this week I mentioned that the Duke of Gloucester, formerly Prince Richard, is involved in plans to re-inter King Richard III in Leicester, York or Westminster. The Duke is patron of the Richard … Continued
By Duncan Bartlett BBC World Service 31 January 2013 The play explores the relationship between William Adams and the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu Anjin, a new Anglo-Japanese play at London’s Sadler’s Wells, tells the story of William Adams, believed to be … Continued
Wednesday 23 January 2013. Gregory Doran begins his reign at the Royal Shakespeare Company today with a stunning Anglo-Japanese production, where he tells Dominic Cavendish that his approach will be to do less, better. What is the Royal Shakespeare Company … Continued
Friday, Jan. 18, 2013 By WILLIAM HOLLINGWORTH Kyodo LONDON — A yearlong series of cultural events has been launched in Britain to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the establishment of relations with Japan. Life-changing experience: Timon Screech, cochair of the … Continued
The Times Saturday, 12 January 2013 Four hundred years ago today a British ship sailed for Japanese waters to establish the first contact between the two nations and start a mutually beneficial relationship which prospers to this day. In 1613 … Continued
Friday, 11 January 2013 Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose, Japan’s answer to Boris Johnson, was in London yesterday launching Tokyo-s bid for the 2020 Olympics—in the Ladies’ Smoking Room of the St Pancras Hotel of all places. Some say that as … Continued
JLGC Blog Friday, 11 January 2013 [The Japan Local Government Centre is the London office of CLAIR—the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations. CLAIR was established in 1988 as a joint organization made up of local governments. We provide … Continued
