7 PUBLISHER Please Help Middle-aged Men in Lycra Simon Farrell

8 MEDIA UK–Japan News

11 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BCCJ Organisational Plan 2013 Lori Henderson MBE

12 MEDIA What you missed in the Japanese press

14 COVER STORY Meet the New Ambassador Job Brief: pursuing British interests in Japan

22 POLL Salary Survey Results Recruitment firms’ annual polls provide global review

24 VISITING JAPAN Hugo Swire
ENVIRONMENT

26 TARGET: Zero Kills
Kent mum scours ocean to help stop bloody whale hunt 29 The Whale Truth Damning report denies Japan’s culture, science and nutrition claims

32 BEER Tapping Changing Tastes

35 PROPERTY Investing in Tokyo Now is a good time to buy property here
INDUSTRY
Real Estate & Relocation 36 A State of Flux 37 Watch This Space 38 A-LIST
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2
February 2013

42 INTERVIEW Corporate Governance: The Western Way

44 SOCIAL Where Rocket Scientists Meet? What Tokyo’s Cambridge and Oxford Society is really like

46 ARTS EVENTS Solo exhibition by Haroon Mirza; William Hogarth Caricature Exhibition; Bo Ningen Line The Wall Japan Tour 2013; Ringo Starr Japan Tour; 1966 Quartet Beatles & Queen London Classics; The Mousetrap

48 COMMUNITY Embassy, BCCJ, CSR, film, photography and art

50 BOOK REVIEWS Made in Japan Shinto Shrines