Dr Stephen Baker of Scottish Development International will kindly give a lecture (in English) on Scotland, its history and culture, using a power-point presentation. After the lecture members will enjoy some nibbles and drinks from Scotland. (Scotch whisky will definitely be served.)
The venue, MARUNOUCHI CAFE Club 21, is a members' club for those working in the Otemachi, Marunouchi and Yurakucho areas in Tokyo.
For reservations, please register your name and phone number with the JBS Secretariat either by e-mail or telephone no later than 14th October. Kindly make payment of the fee to the bank shown below. No refunds will be made after the closing date and no shows will be charged.

Time: 1830-2100 hrs (Door opens at 1800 hrs)
Date: Thursday, 21st October
Place:MARUNOUCHI CAFE Club 21 (Shin Tokyo Bldg.1F, 3-3-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku)
Price: Members JPY5,500 Guests JPY 6,000 (incl. lecture, food and drinks)

There will be a visit to the Kyu-Shimazu Residence in Gotanda, Tokyo, which was designed by Josiah Conder in early 20th century and is used as a part of the Seisen Women's College. Members will have a chance to join a guided tour and lunch will follow at an Italian restaurant near by.
For reservations, please register your name and phone number with the JBS Secretariat either by e-mail or telephone and make payment of the fee no later than 30th September.
Details will be provided to participants about a week in advance.
As space is limited, participants will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. No refunds will be made after the closing date and no shows will be charged.

Time: 1100-1200 hrs (guided tour) 1230-1330 hrs (lunch)
Date: Wednesday, 6th October
Place: Seisen Women's College (3-16-21 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku )
Price: Members JPY1,500 Guests JPY 2,000 (incl. lunch)

As informed in the last notice, an exhibition of the work of Henry Moore, the pre-eminent British sculptor of the twentieth century, is being held at the Bridgestone museum.
On this occasion, a gallery talk on this exhibition will be held for JBS members. The talk will be in Japanese for approx. 45 minutes, and you will have free time to look around the rest of the exhibition afterwards.
To book, please register your name and phone number with the JBS Secretariat either by e-mail or telephone. Details will be provided to participants about a week in advance.

Time: 1830 hrs (gallery open until 2000 hrs)
Date: Tuesday, 28th September
Place: Bridgestone Museum of Art (1-10-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku) *5 min walk from Tokyo (Yaesu exit), Kyobashi and Nihombashi stations.
Price: Members JPY800 Guests JPY1,000 *Please pay on the day at the venue.

Following on from last year's successful event, the Junior Group is again holding a BBQ party to welcome the Daiwa Scholars arriving in Japan this September.

The Daiwa Scholarship is a unique 19-month programme of language study, work placement and homestay in Japan. The programme offers young and talented UK citizens with strong leadership potential the opportunity to acquire Japanese language skills, and to access expertise and knowledge relevant to their career goals. The programme is funded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, established by Daiwa Securities in 1988, for the purpose of promoting exchange and better understanding between the UK and Japan.

A variety of Japanese and English beers, as well as various types of Japanese sake, will be served during the event!
If you wish to participate, please register your full name and telephone number with the JBS Secretariat by e-mail or telephone by 15th September. Please note that the number of guests for Ordinary members is limited to two per member.

Time: 1800-2000 hrs Door opens at 1745hrs
Date: Thursday, 23rd September
Price: Junior Members JPY2,000* Junior Guests / Members JPY2,500* Guests JPY3,000* Please pay at the venue.
*JPY500 DISCOUNT FOR THOSE WEARING YUKATA (SUMMER KIMONO)
-Please note that the venue is no-smoking.　
-There is no car parking available.
-Only registered members and their guests carrying a photo ID will be admitted into the venue.


Call for volunteers to assist with flat hunting!
We are looking for volunteers to assist the six Daiwa Scholars in finding suitable one-person flats in Tokyo. We envisage this would involve accompanying the scholars at least twice in the two-week period from 25th Sept. More details are available on request.
Please contact Ms. Kono, Daiwa Foundation, if you are interested. (E-mail: tokyo.office@dajf.org)

There will be two visits to breweries; the Junior Group will visit KIRIN Beer Village in Yokohama, while a special visit to the Suntory Brewery (in Fuchu) has been arranged for Ordinary Members.

If you would like to join a tour, please register your full name and phone number with the JBS Secretariat by telephone or e-mail.
Members have a chance to taste freshly-brewed beer but please be advised that those who drive a car, come by bicycle, or are under 20 years-old are not permitted to drink any alcohol.


Date and Time: Friday, 17th September 1500-1700 hours (Party from 1730 hours)
Place: Suntory Musashino Brewery (3-1 Yasakicho, Fuchu-shi)
Price: Members JPY500 Guests JPY700 (Please pay at the venue.)
Applications to be made by 10th September

This tour includes a visit to the brewery and also a special beer tasting class. After the tour there will be the option of mingling at an Izakaya (pub) restaurant for those who would like to chat or drink some more beer. (A party fee will be collected at the venue.)
Further information will be provided to participants around 10th September.

There will be two visits to breweries; the Junior Group will visit KIRIN Beer Village in Yokohama, while a special visit to the Suntory Brewery (in Fuchu) has been arranged for Ordinary Members.

Junior Group: Visit to KIRIN Beer Village

Date and Time: Saturday, 7th August 1600-1700 hours (Party from 1730 hours)
Place: KIRIN Yokohama Beer Village (1-17-1 Namamugi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama-shi)
Price: Free of charge for the visit (Party fee will be collected at the venue.)
Applications to be made by 2nd August

Participants will learn the history of beer, watch the manufacturing process, and taste freshly-brewed beer. The tour will be in Japanese, but an English brochure is available.
For those who wish to cultivate friendships, a party will follow the tour at the restaurant in the same compound. Further information will be provided to participants around 31st July.

If you would like to join a tour, please register your full name and phone number with the JBS Secretariat by telephone or e-mail.
Members have a chance to taste freshly-brewed beer but please be advised that those who drive a car, come by bicycle, or are under 20 years-old are not permitted to drink any alcohol.

We are delighted to announce another exclusive Wine Tasting Event for JBS members, which is a very unique opportunity to taste wine in the company of top international wine judges. The wines will be selected from those submitted from all over the world for the Japan Wine Challenge 2010 , the largest wine competition in Asia. At the conclusion of the competition, international judges will stay on to hold an exclusive tasting for JBS members, with each judge being joined by a small group of members for an informative and fun tasting.
This event is a must for anyone who enjoys wine or who wants to know what wine to buy in Japan next year. To book, please register your full name and phone number with the JBS Secretariat by e-mail, telephone, fax, or mail no later than 8th July, and make full payment to our bank. No refunds will be made after this date and no shows will be charged.

Time and Date: 1800-2000 hours on Thursday, 15th July (Door opens at 1730 hours)
Place: Sheraton Miyako Hotel Tokyo (1-1-50 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku Tel: 03-3447-3111)
Price: Members JPY6,500 Guests JPY7,000 Food will not be served.

There will be a special lecture for JBS members on the exhibition "Discover the Beauty of Japan IV: The World of Screen Paintings; Transition and Development". Ms Sachiko Idemitsu (Curator at the Idemitsu Museum) will explain the history and art of Byobu (folding screens) from the Muromachi to the Edo period. (The lecture will be given in Japanese but English brochures will be available.) Members will also enjoy the exhibition at the museum after the lecture.
For reservations, please register your name, address and phone number with the JBS Secretariat either by e-mail, telephone, fax, or mail no later than 1st July. Details will be provided to participants about a week in advance.

Time and Date: 1400-1500 hrs on Wednesday, 7th July　
Place: Idemitsu Museum of Arts (9F Teigeki Bldg., 3-1-1 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku) Price: Members JPY1,000 Guests JPY1,500 (including entrance fee to the museum) Please pay at the venue.

The Junior Group will hold an Afternoon tea Party at St. Christopher’s Garden, Jiyugaoka, Tokyo. A tea instructor will give us a talk. To book, please register your full name and telephone number with the JBS Secretariat by telephone or e-mail (event@japanbritishsociety.or.jp) no later than 19th June, and pay the fee to the bank shown below. No refunds will be made after this date. Please note that Junior members and their guests will have priority.

Date: Sunday, 27th June
Time: 1100-1300 hours
Place:
St. Christopher's Garden (1-24-14 Jiyugaoka, Meguro-ku Tel: 03-3725-9681) Price: Junior / JPY4,000 Junior Guests /Members JPY4,500 Guests JPY5,000
*No flip-flops are permitted.

We are delighted to announce that this year's Princess Chichibu Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Timon Screech, who is a professor at SOAS, University of London. He will talk on “Pictures and Poetry on the Banks of the Sumida: Boating up the River in the Edo Period”

This lecture series has been held every year through a bequest of The Princess Chichibu, who was an honorary patron of the Society, and is open to the public.
It is hoped that many members and their guests will be able to attend. To book, please register your name and phone number with the JBS Secretariat by telephone or e-mail no later than 11th June. The lecture will be given in English.

Timon Screech was born in Birmingham, UK, and received a BA (Hons.) in Oriental Studies (Japanese) at Oxford, before completing his Ph.D at Harvard in 1991. He also studied at the universities of Geneva and Gakushuin. He has taught the history of Japanese art at SOAS, University of London, since 1991, and in 2006 was elected to a chair in the History of Art. He is concurrently Permanent Visiting Professor at Tama Art University, Tokyo.
Screech is the author of some ten books on the visual culture of the Edo period. His PhD was published as The Lens Within the Heart: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan (CUP 1996) and is still in print in a second edition (Curzon, 2002). Perhaps his best-known work is Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820 (Reaktion, 1999; second, expanded edition, 2009). Most recently, he has introduced and edited the writings of two 18th-century travellers to Japan, as Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun’s Realm, 1775-1796 (Routledge, 2005), and Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822 (Routledge, 2006). His writings have been translated into French, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Romanian.

Date: Monday, 21st June
Time: 1830-2030 hours Door opens at 1800
Place: Ueno Gakuen Aeolian Hall (4-24-12 Higashi-Ueno, Taito-ku Tel: 03-3842-1021)
Fee: Free (Drinks will be served after the lecture.)