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List of Events


2012

★ Discussion meeting “War in the Wilderness, Chindits in Burma”

Saturday, 31 March 2012

Speaker: Tony Redding
Summary report: see March 2012 newsletter


2010

★ Anglo-Japanese International Symposium “Human Development,
Restoration and Social Development since WWII”

Saturday, 17 October 2009

Location: St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Summary report: see March 2010 newsletter


2009

★ Discussion Meeting: “The Japanese Soldier”

Thursday, 29 November 2009

Speaker:
Masao Hirakubo, Hon OBE, veteran of the Burma War and Chairman of BCS

Anglo-Japanese Symposium “Human Development, Restoration and Social Development since WWII” (COMMEMORATION OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, and of RECONCILIATION AFTER WORLD WAR)

Friday, 17th October, 11:00 AM -5:00 PM
Summary report: see March 2010 newsletter
Photos: see Album


2008

★ Discussion Meeting: “THE POST-WAR RECOVERY OF JAPAN AND ITS FUTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY”

Thursday, 20 March 2008, 6-8pm

Speaker: Dr Keiichiro Komatsu
Summary report: see September 2008 newsletter

Please note that Dr Komatsu is a former banker (at the semi-governmental Central Co-operative Bank for Commerce and Industry in Tokyo and NY) and a development specialist (at the World Bank), but not at the Development Bank of Japan as stated in the original newsletter. Dr Komatsu was awarded a doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford.


2007

★ Discussion Meeting: “MEMORIES OF THE BURMA CAMPAIGN”

Tuesday, 3 July 2007, 6 –8pm

Speakers:
Maurice Franses, 2 British Division
Philip Malins MBE MC, 20 Indian Division
Masao Hirakubo, Hon OBE, 31 Japanese Division
Summary report: see September 2007 Newsletter

★ Discussion Meeting: “PRISONER OF THE JAPANESE”

Thursday 22 March 2007, 6 –8pm

Speakers: George Housego MBE
Summary report: see September 2007 Newsletter


2006

★ Discussion Meeting: “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”

Monday 13 March 2006, 6 –8pm

Speakers: Tomoyo Nakao, Associate Professor, Okayama University
Flyer: see Nakao-Tomoyo-discussion-meeting-March-2006.pdf

★ Discussion Meeting:

Wednesday 17 May 2006

Speakers: Major Terence Molloy MC, 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, a BCS member and author of the newly published
Silchar Track

Summary report: see September 2006 newsletter

★ Discussion Meeting: “Bill Slim: The Very Model of a Modern Manoeuvrist General”

Thursday 30 November 2006, 6 –8pm

Speakers: Robert Lyman, author of Slim, Master of War: Burma and the Birth of Modern Warfare
Summary report: see March 2007 newsletter


2005

★ Symposium “ENEMY & FRIEND BRITAIN AND JAPAN AT WAR AND PEACE”

Wednesday 3 September 2005

Location: The Cabinet War Rooms, London
Seminar Paper: 60th_Anniversary_Papers.pdf
Summary report: see March 2006 newsletter

★ Discussion Meeting: “FILMING THE WAR IN BURMA”

Tuesday, 1 March 2005, 6 –8pm

Speaker: Frank Worth
Summary report: see September 2005 newsletter

★ Discussion Meeting: “YOUNG MEN AT WAR; WITH GURKHAS IN BURMA”

Thursday, 10 November 2005, 6 –8pm

Speaker: Jimmy Evans
Summary report: see March 2006 newsletter

★ Discussion Meeting: “THE USE OF MULES IN THE BURMA WAR”

Thursday 12 May 2005, 6 –8pm

Speaker: Philip Malins MBE MC


2004

★ A Discussion Meeting: “Burma, The Japanese Invasion in Historical Context”

Monday 15 March 2004

Speaker: John McEnery
Summary report: see September 2004 newsletter

★ A Discussion Meeting: “Kelly’s Burma Campaign: Letters from the Chin Hills,

Thursday 8 July 2004

Speaker: Dr Desmond Kelly
Summary report: see September 2004 newsletter

★ A Discussion Meeting: “The Chinese Contribution to Victory over Japan in the Pacific”

Monday 11 October 2004, 6.00 – 8.00 pm

Speaker: Dr. David Steeds


2003

★ Discussion Meeting: “Britain’s Grand Strategy for War Against Japan”

12 March 2003

Speaker: Dr Saki Dockrill of the Department of War Studies, Kings College, London”
Summary report: see September 2003 newsletter

★ Discussion Meeting: “Java as a Japanese Surrendered Personnel”

12 May 2003

Speaker: Sadao Oba
Summary report: see September 2003 newsletter

★ Discussion Meeting: “THE JAPAN RED CROSS BEFORE AND DURING THE
SECOND WORLD WAR”

Monday 21 July 2003, 4–6pm

Speaker: Nobuko Kosuge, Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration, Yamanashi Gakuin University
Summary report: see September 2003 newsletter


2002


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