Number 1 Shimbun magazine
Our August issue commemorates Japan’s acceptance of the Potsdam Agreement in the “Jewel Voice Broadcast” (Gyokuon-hōsō) August 15 1945. The Imperial line and Japan itself were renovated, then reset for the Cold War in Asia.
Number 1 Shimbun magazine.
This issue is all about women in our Club, and in the media and other workplaces in Japan.
So, a serious issue, but one that we have all done our best to make readable.
Number 1 Shimbun magazine
October 2020
On our 75th Anniversary, the past looks simple,
the future more complicated. But the FCCJ will continue.
Thus every kind their pleasure find
The savage and the tender
Some social join and leagues combine
Some solitary wander
~ Robert Burns, Song composed in August, 1783
Number 1 Shimbun magazine
November 2020
After three tightly themed Number 1s, we’re letting our hair down.Read on for a new series on PAC speakers, reflections on our South Asian connections, the making of Marunouchi, intrigue in Itabashi and Pennsylvania Avenue, a heartwarming animal rescue project and Karen Severns on a film portrait of a Tokyo writer going downhill so fast he could almost be a memory.
Number 1 Shimbun magazine
December 2020
In the last month of a very difficult 2020, we’re doing our best to send you some seasonal cheer. The President sees light at the end of the tunnel, and so does Yuriko Koike. Jonathan Watts celebrates the perfect chaos of the best-ever PAC event in Club history. Robert Whiting recalls a romance so doomed you could almost be glad to be in 2020, while Yoshiko Miwa shows us how heart and determination will always win through. Yes, we do have an obituary, but an unusually upbeat . Regular sees one good reason for cheer.
And of course all of us at Number 1 Shimbun wish all of you
a very restful and happy holiday and peace and safety in 2021.
Number 1 Shimbun magazine
2020 was the year in which just about everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. With this issue, the oracle at Marunouchi has spoken on the year ahead and we release our visions to a waiting world, alongside a close view of the troubles at Kusatsu, a retrospective on the rise of the capsule, and two recollections on the passing of the great Takashi Oka.
As BREXIT falters, COVID conquers and China wins the world, the FCCJ will continue as an oasis of wisdom, calm and congeniality, with wonderful dining privileges on the side.
Meanwhile, this editor takes his leave. It has been an honour and a privilege and a lot of fun putting this magazine together with the expertise and inspiration of Julio Kohji Shiiki, our designer. I wish my successor Justin McCurry every possible success, and all of us wish you, our readers, an especially happy New Year. View the full pdf of the magazine here:
1916 Macallaí na Cásca 16 : Peter O’Connor
An tÉirí Amach sa Domhan Thoir: Mar a chonaic an tSeapáin, an tSín agus an Chóiré éirí amach na Cásca is a thionchar (The Rising in the East: How Japan, China and Korea saw the Easter rising and its influence)
Cén scéal faoi Éirí Amach na Cásca a bhí i mbéal an phobal thar lear nó sna meáin i gcéin? sa tSeapáin, An tSín nó an Cóiréa fiú? I 1917 bhí an tuairim ann, gurbh í an Chóiré ‘Éire na Seapáine’, ag teacht chun cinn. Thart ar an am gcéanna maíodh gurbh í
Éire, ‘Cóiré na Breataine’. Sliochtanna as roinnt nuachtáin ón Oirthear. Tá an Cóiré roinnte fós, agus Éire.
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Order the book for €7.50:
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