Past Events

2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002

2007

Date Location Event
3 July   Nippon Club

Discussion Meeting ? Memories of Burma, with veterans Philip Malins, Masao Hirakubo and Tom Bruin, talking from their own experiences of the Burma war
                                                                                  For full details please click here.

10th May

The Mitsukoshi Restaurant

Lower Regent Street, London SW1

 The annual AGM will be followed by a reunion lunch, to which all are welcome.
24 April Tokyo Woman Christian University Masao Hirakubo will talk about his experiences in the Burma war.
22 March The Oriental Club, Stratford Place
(Bond Street tube, North Exit)

The speaker was George Housego MBE and his title ePrisoner of the Japanesef.

For full details please click here.

2006

Date Location Event
30 November

THE NIPPON CLUB

2nd Floor Samuel House, 6 St Albanfs Street, London SW1Y
(off Lower Regent Street, 300 yards from Piccadilly Circus)

 The speaker was Robert Lyman talking about Bill Slim. Please click here for more details.
14 November Tokyo Woman's Christian University Inaugural BCS event in Japan - lecture by Professor A. Sugino on British POWs of the Japanese Army, based on their own accounts and diaries at the Imperial War Museum
14 October St Ethelburga's Church Reunion Afternoon tea party with entertainment
20 August Canterbury Cathedral Evensong service dedicated to reconciliation
19 August Three Wheels
Temple, Ealing 		Buddhist Reconciliation Service
8 June 11:30am The Mitsukoshi Restaurant, Lower Regent Street, London SW1

The Annual General Meeting to be followed by the annual reunion lunch at which The Japanese Ambassador and Minister at the Japanese Embassy, and their wives, will be the Societyfs guests.
17 May
6-8pm		 The Nippon Club Major Terence Molloy will talk about the challenges of commanding a British unit in Burma and the experiences of the 48th, the Ist Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment particularly leading up to the vital defence of Imphal, which proved the turning point of the Burma Campaign. He will draw on his recently published book, The Silchar Track, (one of the few routes leading into India) which brings together accounts of the men who were with him at Imphal, and lists all those who are buried there.
13 March Nippon Club

How Japanese and British Veterans, and Soldiers of Former Colonies, Remember the War Dead in Reunions which Commemorate the War: An Oral History Research Case Study.

Speaker: Associate Professor Tomoyo Nakao.

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2005

Date Location Event
10 November Nippon Club

 

 eYoung Men at War? With Gurkhas in Burmaf; speaker Jimmy Evans who served in the 1st/4th Gurkha Rifles at the Battle of Imphal. Details here.
7 September Cabinet War Rooms, Westminster, London SW1

An outline of the programme is available here, as well as copies of abstracts of the papers presented here.
21 August Canterbury Cathedral
Coventry Cathedral

Evensong at Canterbury and Coventry Cathedrals, dedicated to Reconciliation, and 20 August 2005, The Three Wheels Buddhist Centre, Reconciliation Service.
20 August Three Wheels
Temple, Ealing 		Buddhist Reconciliation Service
12 May Mitsukoshi AGM
12 May Nippon Club The Use of Mules in the Burma War Speaker Philip Malins, MC MBE, former Mule Company Commander Details
1 March Nippon Club Filming the War in Burma - with original film footage of the Pacific War filmed by Frank Worth Speaker, Frank Worth, Commander of a Royal Navy Combat Film Unit Details

2004

Date Location Event
11 October Nippon Club Discussion Meeting --The Contribution of the Chinese to the Allied Victory in Burma, Speaker David Steeds
15 August Coventry Cathedral Evensong at Coventry Cathedral, dedicated to Reconciliation
14 August the Three Wheels Buddhist Centre Reconciliation Service
8 July
 Nippon Club Discussion Meeting --Kelly's Burma Campaign: Letters from the Chin Hills, speaker Dr Desmond Kelly
10 June Mitsukoshi, Lower Regent Street, London W1 AGM
17 May The Royal Military College, Sandhurst Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Battles of Kohima and Imphal and Wreath Laying on the Indian Divisions Memorial by the Japanese Ambassador
7 April The Institute of Contemporary Christianity, Vere Street, London W1 Japan Society lecture
The Battle of Kohima
Speakers: Major General Ian Lyall Grant
Mr Masao Hirakubo MBE
Mr Philip Malins MBE MC
15 March Nippon Club
Samuel House
6 St Alban's Street
London SW1

Burma, The Japanese Invasion in Historical Context
Speaker: John McEnery
3 February Imperial War Museum

Documentary Award Ceremony to view "Grandfather, I am in England" by Yuki Sunada

2003

Date Location Event
15 December Oriental Club, Stratford Place, London W1 BCS Christmas Lunch, with video viewing
14 October
 SOAS, London University, Thornhaugh Street The British Commonwealth Occupation of Japan
Speakers: Ian Nish, Patric Emerson , Peter Bates
14 October St Ethelburga's Church BCFG Unveiling of Reconciliation Plaque
17 August Canterbury Cathedral Service of Reconciliation was held as part of the Evensong Service at Canterbury Cathedral.
16 August Three Wheels Buddhist Centre
55 Carbery Avenue
London
W3 9AB		 Annual Memorial Service for those who died in Burma during the Second World War, followed by a ceremony to pray for reconciliation and world peace.
21 July SOAS, London University, Thornhaugh Street

The Japan Red Cross Before and During the Pacific War Speaker: Nobuko Kosuge, Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration, Yamanashi Gakuin University

Please click here for the Discussion Meeting notes.

22 May Mitsukoshi Restaurant AGM followed by lunch.
12 May Nippon Club
Samuel House		 Java as a Japanese Surrendered Personnel, Sadao Oba
12 March East India Club Britain's Grand Strategy for War Against JapanÅh. Dr Saki Dockrill of the Department of War Studies, Kings College, London*


2002

Date Location Event
15 October
 Nippon Club
Samuel House		 The Battle of Kohima, by Gordon Graham, Masao Hirakubo, Maurice Franses and Philip Malins*
18 August Coventry Cathedrall Service of Reconciliation
17 August Three Wheels Buddhist Centre Annual Memorial Service for those who died in Burma during the Second World War, followed by a ceremony to pray for reconciliation and world peace.
9 May
Nippon Club
Samuel House		 "Was the Pacific War Inevitable?"
By Dr Keiichiro Komatsu*
14 March The Overseas
League		 Inaugural meeting

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