PAST EVENT
13th May 2025. The Japan Society of Scotland working with the Asia Scotland Institute.
We recently collaborated with the Asia Scotland Institute (ASI), who organized a superb lecture by Haruko Fukuda OBE. She is a former Chair of the Japan Society and a major figure on finance in London and internationally, who has made a major contribution to UK-Japan relations through decades based in London.
JSoS members were delighted to attend this book talk at The New Club, which was about her fascinating memoir My Families and ther Samurai. This was not a lecture on high level financial matters, nor a direct telling of her own story and her own achievements, Roddy Gow founder of ASI paid tribute to her own achievements in his excellent introduction. It was instead a warm, fascinating story of an incredible family over generations set against a background of the story of modern Japan.
It was a story with elegance and candour of the achievements of her family shaped by samurai heritage, diplomatic duty and international ambition. Whilst her book is aimed at a popular audience it should also be recommend to all serious students of modern Japan. Fukuda Sama presented her talk in excellent fashion and took a considerable number of questions, which if anything, whetted our appetite for the book, now on sale and sure to be a best seller.
Website of the Asia Scotland Institute: https://asiascot.com/
