Foreign Minister's Commendation - Mr Nicolas Maclean, Professor Timon Screech
2025/9/19
On 19 September, Ambassador Hiroshi Suzuki presented the Foreign Minister’s Commendation to Mr Nicolas Maclean and Professor Timon Screech at the Embassy of Japan.
Mr Maclean advocated the idea of the British English Teaching Program (BET) in the late 1970s, prior to the establishment of today’s Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, through which young Britons were dispatched to Japan to work as English teachers.
Professor Screech, as a specialist in Edo-period history and art history, has long contributed to the advancement of the study of early modern Japanese art at SOAS, University of London.
The two also served together as Co-Chairs of “Japan400” in 2013, which commemorated the 400th anniversary of Japan–UK relations.
At the ceremony, Ambassador Suzuki expressed his profound gratitude to the two distinguished “Sensei” and many others whose longstanding efforts have nurtured a sense of closeness between Japan and the United Kingdom, despite the geographical distance between the two countries.
Mr Maclean advocated the idea of the British English Teaching Program (BET) in the late 1970s, prior to the establishment of today’s Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, through which young Britons were dispatched to Japan to work as English teachers.
Professor Screech, as a specialist in Edo-period history and art history, has long contributed to the advancement of the study of early modern Japanese art at SOAS, University of London.
The two also served together as Co-Chairs of “Japan400” in 2013, which commemorated the 400th anniversary of Japan–UK relations.
At the ceremony, Ambassador Suzuki expressed his profound gratitude to the two distinguished “Sensei” and many others whose longstanding efforts have nurtured a sense of closeness between Japan and the United Kingdom, despite the geographical distance between the two countries.
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