9 PUBLISHER Happy New Year! Simon Farrell

10 MEDIA UK–Japan News

13 PRESIDENT EMERITUS Enjoyable, Challenging, Devastating Philip T Gibb

15 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Thank You for Your Help Lori Henderson

16 MEDIA What you missed in the Japanese press

18 CREATIVE Art in the Dark Sustainable energy-saving festival creates living, moving art

20 FASHION It’s All in the Detail

22 INTERVIEW Ernfred Olsen Country executive for the Royal Bank of Scotland Japan

25 ENGINEERING Torque of the Town UKTI helps Banbury tool firm build on its long presence here
INDUSTRY

27 Building Trust 28 A-LIST of Education & Corporate Training 35 The Vision Thing

36 FOOD Unearthing the Secrets of Wasabi Dorset farmer is first in Europe to grow the fickle plant
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1
January 2013

38 CULTURE Hyper Japan 2012

40 ARTS EVENTS Artist File 2013―The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art; Yebisu International Festival for Art &
Alternative Vision 2013; Macbeth; Me and My Girl; The London Symphony Orchestra Japan Tour; Sony Music Foundation
Special Concert Series for Children―Magical Adventure

42 COMMUNITY Embassy, honours, BCCJ, social, charity, launch, music, film, photography, art

44 HISTORY Helping the Enemy

46 BOOK REVIEWS Get a G.R.I.P The Commando Way