Ambassador's Activities

2023

• Memorial Reception for Ambassador Katsuhiko Oku and Bestowal Ceremony for Decoration of Mr Reg Clark, and Oku Memorial Trophy rugby matches (24 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s Meeting with The Rt Hon David Lammy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (22 November)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi’s attendance at the opening event of KABUKI KIMONO: Costumes of Bandō Tamasaburō V at the Ashmolean Museum (21 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at SMBC Client Reception (20 November)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi's attendance at Japan House London’s opening event of “Ainu Stories: Contemporary Lives by the Saru River” (15 November)
• Ambassador’s Commendation - Mr Steve Dalton OBE, Former Managing Director of SONY UK Technology Centre (10 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s visit to Wales (10 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with the Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, Minister of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Indo-Pacific) (30 October)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi’s attendance at the 25th Anniversary Ceremony between Derbyshire & Toyota City (24 October)
• British-Japanese Parliamentary Group Reception (23 October)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi’s visit to Balliol College, Oxford (20 October)
• Reception for 150th Anniversary of UK-Japan Railway Friendship (17 October)
• Japanese British Lawyers’ Networking Reception 2023 (12 October)
• Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering and Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the Award Ceremony (12 October)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the Labour Party Conference (10 October)
• UK JET Programme Returnees Reception 2023 (6 October)
• Japanese Government honours Miss Janice Brennan, Barrister, Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (5 October)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the Conservative Party Conference (4 October)
• Japan Matsuri 2023 (1 October)
• Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Professor Roger Goodman and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford (29 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s visit to Scotland (28 September)
• Ambassador’s Commendation - Mr John Gordon-Smith, Former Chair of the Friends of Japanese Garden at Hammersmith Park (26 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at a symposium on traditional sake brewing (25 September)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi’s visit to Merton College, Oxford (22 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the opening of Toshiba’s Quantum Technology Centre (22 September)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi’s attendance at Japan House London’s 5th Anniversary Reception (21 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the Parliamentary Reception hosted by Hitachi (13 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the World Coffee Summit London (13 September)
• Film screening: 'Sympathetic Souls – A Biography of Hokiichi Hanawa' (11 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the International Symposium on Economic Crime at Jesus College, University of Cambridge (7 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the reception commemorating the MOC between JAEA and NNL (6 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Mr Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester (5 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Nusrat Ghani MP, Minister of State at the Department for Business and Trade (29 August)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with the Rt Hon Mark Harper MP, Secretary of State for Transport (21 August)
• Japan Self-Defense Forces Day Reception (18 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi Deposited Japan’s Instrument of Acceptance of the 2022 International Coffee Agreement (17 July)
• Ambassador HAYASHI Hajime's congratulatory message for Mr ODA Tokito on his Wimbledon Championships victory (17 July)
• Ambassador HAYASHI Hajime’s message on the UK’s Accession to the CPTPP (Signing of the Protocol of the UK’s Accession) (16 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the Completion Ceremony of 8 Bishopsgate (14 July)
• Pre-Departure Reception for 2023 JET Programme Participants (7 July)
• IWC 2023 Award Winning Sake Tasting (5 July)
• Japan House London 'WAVE: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts' Exhibition (5 July)
• 26th Summer Reunion for Peace and Friendship (30 June)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the MOC signing ceremony between SCARDA and CEPI (23 June)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with the Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice (15 June)
• Ambassador’s Commendation – Professor Alessio Patalano (15 June)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with the Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, Minister of State (Overseas Territories, Commonwealth, Energy, Climate and Environment)  (12 June)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at Invertek Drives 25th Anniversary celebration (9 June)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi attend launch event for the Atomic Bomb Exhibition in Durham (6 June)
• The Japan-UK Financial Networking Reception (23 May)
• Ambassador’s Commendation - Dr Helen Macnaughtan (16 May)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s visit to Imperial College London (11 May)
• Ambassador Hayashi's attendance at the Kyoto Prize at Oxford (9 May)
• Ambassador Hayashi's attendance at the launch of Ocean Census (27 April)
• Ambassador Hayashi's attendance at “Japan-UK Symposium Celebrating the 150 years of Iwakura Mission” hosted by the Institute of Directors (24 April)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi’s attendance at the 2023 World Marmalade Awards Ceremony (22 April)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi’s visit to Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (19 April)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi attend a reception celebrating Japan-UK exchange in Newmarket (19 April)
• My Neighbour Totoro wins six Olivier Awards; Ambassador Hayashi conveys congratulations to the Royal Shakespeare Company (4 April)
• Ambassador’s Commendation - UK-Japan Music Society (30 March)
• Ambassador Hayashi's attendance at the “Asia-Pacific Ambassadors Roundtable” (29 March)
• The Japan-UK RENKEI 10th Anniversary Event (28 March)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s deposit of Japan’s instrument of accession to the Cape Town Agreement of 2012 with IMO in London (27 March)
• Japanese Government honours Sir Michael Arthur (24 March)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with the Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (21 March)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi's attendance at All England Open Badminton Championship (19 March)
• JET Programme Reunion Reception (3 March)
• Ambassador Hayashi's attendance at Japan House London’s Annual Members’ Event (1 March)
• Ambassador’s Commendation - Robin Wilson, Director of Oxford University Japanese Kiln (28 February)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi’s visit to Eton College (27 February)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi's attendance at Japan House London’s private viewing of “KUMIHIMO: Japanese Silk Braiding by DOMYO” (24 February)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at a conference on Japan’s society and economy organised by the University of Oxford (17 February)
• Ambassador Hayashi signed 2022 International Coffee Agreement (8 February)
• Emperor's Birthday Reception 2023 (7 February)
• Foreign Minister’s Commendation – Lady Victoria Borwick and the Sakura Cherry Tree Project Committee (31 January)
• 13th Green Park Youth Concert (24 January)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with the Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, Minister of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Indo-Pacific) (9 January)
• New Year’s Greeting from Ambassador Hayashi (1 January)

2022

• Ambassador Hayashi hosts Japan-Wales Kizuna Reception (14 December)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with the Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, Minister of State (Overseas Territories, Commonwealth, Energy, Climate and Environment) (30 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s visit to the Oxford Union (24 November)
• Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Mr Adrian Shooter (23 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Alicia Kearns MP, Chair of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs (22 November)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi’s visit to Manchester (18 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi hosts the Japanese British Lawyers Networking Reception 2022 (16 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with the Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, Minister of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Indo-Pacific) (15 November)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi’s attendance at the Oku Memorial Trophy and England vs Japan rugby matches (12 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Mayor Khan (9 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s visit to Wales (7-8 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Professor Sir Andrew Pollard and Professor Sir John Bell at the University of Oxford (1 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi's attendance at Japan House London’s Welcome & Farewell Reception (26 October)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the private viewing of the exhibition “Shoji Hamada: A Japanese Potter in Ditchling” (21 October)
• Ambassador HAYASHI Hajime’s meeting with Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg (4 October)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi's attendance at the opening of the exhibition "Circles of Stone: Stonehenge and Prehistoric Japan" (29 September)
• Japanese Government honours Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (28 September)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi's attendance at Japan House London’s private viewing of “The Carpenters’ Line: Woodworking Heritage in Hida Takayama” (28 September)
• The JET Alumni Careers Fair 2022 (online event) (28 September)
• Ambassador's Message on the Passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (9 September)
• Thank you from Fukushima Reception (7 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the Fukushima Garden 10th anniversary ceremony (7 September)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi's visit to Chatsworth Country Fair, Derbyshire (2 September)
• Japanese Government honours Lady Arden of Heswall (Mary Howarth Arden) (1 September)
• Pre-Departure Reception for 2022 JET Programme Participants (3 August)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with The Rt Hon Nigel Adams, Minister of State (Minister without Portfolio) (22 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi's meeting with The Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg, Minister of State (Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency), and Japanese business representatives (20 July)
• Cocktail Party with the Parliament League of Japan for Revitalizing the Aerospace Industry (17 July)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi's visit to Newmarket Racecourse for the July Cup 2022 (9 July)
• IWC 2022 Award Winning Sake Tasting (8 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the 50th anniversary ceremony of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company (Europe) Limited (6 July)
• 25th Summer Reunion for Peace and Friendship (1 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s message on the UK's removal of imports controls for food products from Japan (29 June)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Japan Lunch (27 June)
• Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) ships visit the UK (25 June)
• Ambassador and Madame Hayashi's attendance at the 35th Anniversary Dinner of the Canon Foundation in Europe Fellowship Programme (24 June)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi's attendance at the opening of the exhibition “ASH, EMBER, FLAME: a Japanese Kiln in Oxford” (7 June)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi’s visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 (25 May)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi's attendance at Japan House London’s private viewing of “Symbiosis: Living Island” (19 May)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s visit to the University of Oxford (13 May)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi's attendance at the opening of the exhibition “Kasimir Malevich Raku Kichizaemon XV” (12 May)
• Ambassador Hayashi's attendance at the Kyoto Prize at Oxford” (10 May)
• Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Dr Clare Pollard (29 April)
• 12th Green Park Youth Concert (25 April)
• Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Dr Mike William Weightman (8 April)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi's attendance at the opening of the Royal Collection Trust exhibition “Japan: Courts and Culture” (7 April)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s visit to University College London (5 April)
• Ambassador HAYASHI Hajime’s remarks at the launch event of Telehouse’s new data centre (24 March)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi’s attendance at the opening of Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection (15 March)
• The 17th Japanese Speech Contest for University Students (online event) (5 March)
• Ambassador HAYASHI Hajime's phone call with the Rt Hon Amanda Milling MP, Minister of State (Minister for Asia and Middle East) (26 February)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s visit to the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and the University of East Anglia (25 February)
• Ambassador HAYASHI Hajime’s meeting with COP26 President, the Rt Hon Alok Sharma (24 February)
• Event on the occasion of His Majesty the Emperor’s Birthday in 2022 (23 February)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi’s visit to the sakura tree planting ceremony at Chartwell (4 February)
• New Year’s Greeting from Ambassador Hayashi (4 January)

2021

• Meeting between Ambassador HAYASHI Hajime and Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Elizabeth Truss MP (9 December)
• Ambassador's message on the return of the UK Carrier Strike Group (CSG21) (9 December)
• Japanese Government honours Mr MITSUYAMA Yoshio (8 December)
• Japanese Government honours Sir Michael Rake (2 December)
• Oku Memorial Trophy Rugby event (27 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi speaks at the Jiji Press Top Seminar (22 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi spoke at the Japan Society webinar (17 November)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s Attendance at the Opening Event of AFL’s New Fibre Optic Cable Factory (12 November)
• Japanese Government honours Sir Jeremy Farrar (27 October)
• Ambassador Hayashi Presented Credentials to Her Majesty the Queen (19 October)
• The JET Pre-departure Orientation (online event) (14 October)
• Manchester’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Celebration Event (12 October)
• Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Ms YAMANAKA Masumi (7 October)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi’s attendance at the opening of “Japan” festival at Kew Gardens (7 October)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Chairman of the Conservative Party, the Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE (5 October)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Secretary of State for International Trade, the Rt Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan (5 October)
• Meeting between Ambassador HAYASHI Hajime and the Rt Hon Amanda Milling MP, Minister of State (Minister for Asia) (4 October)
• Japanese Government honours Dr Rupert Faulkner & Foreign Minister’s Commendation - Ms Anna Jackson (1 October)
• The JET Alumni Careers Fair 2021 (online event) (29 September)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi’s attendance at the opening of the British Museum’s “Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything” (28 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Thérèse Coffey (23 September)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s attendance at the International Symposium on Economic Crime at University of Cambridge (9 September)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi’s visit to the sakura tree planting ceremony at Capel Manor College (2 September)
• Tokyo 2020 Paralympic heritage flame lit at Stoke Mandeville Stadium (19 August)
• Online opening event for the Ashmolean Museum’s new exhibition - Tokyo: Art & Photography (29 July)
• Medal rush expected! (Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games) (26 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi's meeting with Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Sport and Tourism) Nigel Huddleston MP (22 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with The Rt Hon Greg Hands, Minister for Trade Policy (15 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with the Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons (14 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with the Rt Hon Lord McFall of Alcluith, Lord Speaker (13 July)
• Japanese Government honours Mr Timothy Thorburn Clark (12 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s visit to Wales (10 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Lord Grimstone of Boscobel Kt, Minister for Investment (7 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi's meeting with Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, David Williams (6 July)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi’s visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (5 July)
• Ambassador's Commendation - Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation (2 July)
• Opening of the Japanese Peace Garden in Coventry (2 July)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Dr Graham Turnock, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency (UKSA) (25 June)
• Ambassador Hayashi's meeting with Secretary of State for International Trade, The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss (23 June)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s meeting with Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwasi Kwarteng (22 June)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s Keynote Speech at an online event held by Greater Manchester, Honorary Consul of Japan in Manchester Ahmed, and Deloitte (21 June)
• Ambassador & Madame Hayashi’s visit to the World Marmalade Awards Presentation Ceremony at Dalemain (20 June)
• Ambassador`s message on the decision to commence the accession process of the CPTPP with the United Kingdom (3 June)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s courtesy call on the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Robert Buckland (24 May)
• Ambassador's message on the departure of the UK Carrier Strike Group (CSG21) (24 May)
• Tokyo2020 Paralympic Games Wheelchair Basketball Draw (12 May)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s courtesy call on Defence Secretary Ben Wallace (27 April)
• Ambassador Hayashi’s Keynote Speech at an online event held by Asia House (10 March)
• Online event on the occasion of His Majesty the Emperor’s Birthday in 2021 (26 February)
• Greetings from Ambassador Hayashi (12 February)