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On Friday 31 October 2025 at 6pm we’ll meet for dinner in central Tokyo. Professor Dominic Lieven has kindly agreed to give us a short talk and discuss around the topic “Do wars always end in negotiations?”

• 6:00pm – 7:00pm Dominic Lieven “Do wars always end in negotiations?”
• 7:00pm – 9:00pm dinner
• 9:00pm – nijikai

Professor Dominic Lieven

Dominic Lieven is Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow of Trinity 
College Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy, and Honorary 
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Dominic Lieven was Distinguished Professor in International History at the London School of Economics LSE, 1978-2011.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Lieven
• London School of Economics, Former Distinguished Professor in International History (1978-2011)
• Professor Lieven, London School of Economics (LSE), Visiting Professor at LSE, Department of International History
• Professor Lieven, Chair of the Paulsen Programme (currently suspended) at the LSE
• And here, Dominic Lieven on “The European Crisis” in Nikkei

Registration and prepayment until one week before on Friday 24 October 2025. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

To register:

All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:

On Saturday 20 September 2025 at 6pm we’ll meet for dinner in central Tokyo – please note its Saturday this time –

Amanda Talhat (Trinity 2006) will join us this time. Amanda studied Natural Sciences and then stayed for a PhD in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, all at Trinity. 

Amanda is research leader at Nestlé, most recently leading a group of 50+ as Head of Physics and Technology at Nestlé.

You’ll be able to ask Amanda everything you always wanted to know, and never dared to ask, about food!

• 6:00pm – 8:30pm dinner
• 8:45pm – nijikai

Registration and prepayment until one week before by Friday 12 September 2025. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

To register:

All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:

On Friday 29 August 2025 at 6pm we’ll meet for dinner in central Tokyo

• 6:00pm – 8:30pm dinner
• 8:45pm – nijikai

Registration and prepayment until one week before on Friday 22 August 2025. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

To register:

All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:

On Friday 11 July 2025 at 6pm we’ll meet for dinner in central Tokyo

• 6:00pm – 8:30pm dinner
• 8:45pm – nijikai

Registration and prepayment until one week before on Friday 4 July 2025. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

To register:

All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:

Lunch meeting with Frank Stajano, Professor of Security and Privacy, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Director and Founder of Cambridge Cyber, for discussions on cybersecurity, e-money and other topics in Tokyo.

On Friday 27 June 2025 at 6pm we’ll meet for dinner in central Tokyo.

Three Cambridge medical students (two from Trinity) doing clinical electives in Tokyo, one stem-cell PhD researcher, and pharma/medical device professionals joined us, for discussions on neurosurgery, cancer surgery, stem-cell research, medical devices, and UK/Japan comparisons.

• 6:00pm – 8:30pm dinner
• 8:45pm – nijikai

Registration and prepayment until one week before on Friday 20 June 2025. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

To register:

All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:

On Friday 30 May 2025 at 6pm we’ll meet for dinner in central Tokyo.

• 6:00pm – 8:30pm dinner
• 8:45pm – nijikai

Registration and prepayment until one week before on Friday 23 May 2025. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

To register:

All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:

Discussing Japan’s economic growth, national debt, Piero Sraffa and Trinity with Peter Poole-Wilson (Trinity 1988) 24 May 2025.

More about Trinity Fellow Piero Sraffa here: Lord John Eatwell on “Piero Sraffa: the Trinity enigma who placed a time bomb under economic theory”, 21 May 2021

Discussing corporate governance reforms, decarbonization, and investments in Japan with Joyce Yim (Trinity 1991) over Trinity dinner in Tokyo on 22 May 2025.

Trinity Japan discussing investing in AI and ventures in Japan, 9 May 2025 and 11 May 2025

Meeting with Trinity Fellow Per Ola Kristensson in Yokohama on 3 May 2025 with discussions on AI, Trinity in Japan and many other topics.

About Professor Per Ola Kristensson

Per Ola Kristensson is Professor of Interactive Systems Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Per Ola leads the Intelligent Interactive Systems group, at the Engineering Design Centre, and he is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge

• https://pokristensson.com
• Engineering Design Centre: https://www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk
• Centre for Human Inspired Artificial Intelligence: https://www.chia.cam.ac.uk
• https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/pok21
• publications: https://pokristensson.com/publications.html

On Friday 25 April 2025 at 6pm we’ll meet for dinner in central Tokyo.

• 6:00pm – 8:30pm dinner
• 8:45pm – nijikai

Registration and prepayment until one week before on Friday 18 April 2025. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

To register:

All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:

On Thursday 3 April 2025 at 6pm we’ll meet for dinner in central Tokyo.

• 6:00pm – 8:30pm dinner
• 8:45pm – nijikai

Registration and prepayment until one week before on Friday 28 March 2025. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

To register:

All Trinity College Cambridge Fellows, students, alumni or members living in or visiting Japan are more than welcome to join us. To register, or for any enquiries contact us here:

Trinity Japan dinner with Trinity PhD alumnus Ambassador Ra Jong-Yil on 18 December 2024.

Ambassador Ra Jong-Yil

Ambassador Ra Jong-Yil served as South Korea’s ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2003 and as its ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2007, and is former head of the Republic of Korea’s national intelligence service.

Ambassador Ra Jong-Yil donated the “Ra Jong-Yil Distinguished Lecture in Korean Studies” to the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/ra-jong-yil-distinguished-lecture

He is also Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall Cambridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra_Jong-yil

• Ambassador to the UK
• Senior National Security Advisor to President
• Ambassador to Japan
• Chancellor, Woosuk University
• University Distinguished Professor, Gachon University

Select publications

• Road to Hanoi (Co-authored, Korean), 2022
• The Life and Death of a Terrorist (Japanese), 2021
• Discovery of Korea (co-authored, Korean), 2021
• Unhappy Presidents of Korea (co-authored, Korean), 2020
• Inside North Korea’s Theocracy (English), 2019
• The World and Korean War (Korean), 2019
• Our Beautiful Country (Chinese), 2019
• Dynasty of Purge (Japanese), 2017

Trinity Japan dinner with Dame Carol Black (Chair of The British Library Board) and Sir Roly Keating (Chief Executive of The British Library) on Thursday 31 October 2024 in Tokyo.

The British Library is the national library of the UK, and also hosts The Alan Turing Institute.

Dame Carol Black (Chair of The British Library Board)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Black_(rheumatologist)

and

Sir Roly Keating (Chief Executive of The British Library)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roly_Keating

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