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Suzanne Price is an expert at designing, facilitating and implementing training and coaching programmes with a wide range of experience working with SMEs right up to multi-national organisations.

Aspire Communications was established in 2006 with one aim: to help local leaders in Japan communicate more effectively with their global counterparts.

IMS Legal Professional Corporation, and its team of immigration support professionals, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Despite the severe restrictions on immigration and Japan’s isolation during the pandemic, we have received many requests from our clients both domestic and abroad. And now, with the easing of immigration restrictions, we expect the flow of people into the country will only resume with vigor. We remain confident that the demand for visa application support for foreigners will only increase with the renewal of economic activities and growth.

It’s 2009, and Joseph Tame is strapping the recently launched iPhone to his forehead to run his first-ever quarter marathon. While the iPhone was a gamechanger with unprecedented tech, it couldn’t have predicted what lay ahead for Tame over the next decade.

The Scottish and Japanese governments share a solution to the ageing population in their respective countries: boost the participation of their working age citizens through diversity and inclusion (D&I), to drive sustainable economic growth.

The results of the BCCJ’s contested 2022-2023 BCCJ Executive Committee (Excom) Election were announced and approved at last night’s Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Held at the Palazzo Ducale Azabu, the meeting was opened by Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Japan, Julia Longbottom CMG, who highlighted the success of the UK-Japan relationship over the past year.

The Ambassador acknowledged the work achieved by BCCJ members in support of this relationship, and said that the British Embassy was looking forward to continued close collaboration with the BCCJ over the coming months and years.

The BCCJ is delighted to welcome Calderwood Images as an Entrepreneur member. Calderwood Images is offering a one-hour personalized headshot photo session to all Chamber members at a significantly discounted rate from now until the end of June (details below).

The BCCJ was delighted to welcome 60 members and guests to “EGM2022, and Swing into Spring: BCCJ networking”, hosted in the the elegant surroundings of the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa’s Grand Cafe Patio on March 17.

The event, scheduled originally for January 27, as a Shinnenkai and EGM, signalled a new season and also a new leadership era for the chamber.

On March 9, Atkinson took to the stage of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan for the first time, for a hybrid event, presenting an insider’s view on Japanese politics and business in his address, “358 Days Inside the Suga Administration.”

Today the UK and Japan have unveiled details of a new digital partnership to turbocharge their joint working in an era of increasing global competition on tech and data.

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