7 PUBLISHER Looking Back ... and Forward Simon Farrell

8 MEDIA UK–Japan News

11 PRESIDENT My Favourite Numbers Nick Walters

13 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Stay in Touch! Lori Henderson

14 MEDIA What you missed in the Japanese press
FOOD & DRINK

16 Pass the Salmon, Please! 18 Mission Accomplished

20 DEFENCE After the Typhoon Former Tokyo defence attaché starts consultancy

22 LEGAL Raising the Bar After 25 years back in Japan, foreign law firms still have mixed feelings
HR

26 Disability and the Workplace
Poll reveals reactions to new diversity rules, challenges ahead 29 Are You a Meeting Monster?

30 A-LIST Business Support & Outsourcing and Holiday Special
CHARITY

34 Shoulder to Shoulder ...

37 Tree of Hope
VOLUME 3, ISSUE 12
December 2012

38 MUSIC Synergy and Synthesis Punk-era rebel thanks Japan for opportunity and inspiration

40 TECHNOLOGY Who Needs Referees? Sony helps Winchester firm market device to end line call errors

42 ARTS EVENTS Anonymous, Albert Nobbs, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Record Concert Vol. 2, US by fabric,
Cinderella

44 COMMUNITY BCCJ, charity, fashion, launch, music, film, sport

46 BOOK REVIEW All the Emperor’s Men: Kurosawa’s Pearl Harbour