Gerhard Fasol’s welcome address to The Master, Dame Sally Davies, at the Trinity Japan dinner on 28 February 2023

Dear Master, Dame Sally, welcome to Trinity in Japan, and thank you and Trinity College for the great support.

With the support of then Master Lord Martin Rees, I founded Trinity in Japan on 5 September 2014.
I was about 13 years at Trinity, first for my PhD, then as Research Fellow, then Teaching Fellow and Director of Studies, in parallel to my University Lectureship at the Cavendish. I came first to Japan in 1984 as a Trinity Research Fellow to build research cooperation projects first with NTT Research Labs and later with Tokyo University, and RIKEN.

Since September 2014 we had 69 dinner events, and 40 zoom events, in total more than 100 events.

I founded Trinity in Japan with triple purpose:

1. Serve the Trinity community.

Here some results: for our Trinity Japan zoom conferences I invite selected Japanese research leaders. To my knowledge, this seems to have led to a cooperation between one of the Trinity Fellows, and one of his companies, and a Japanese research leader, who I had invited to one of our Trinity Japan zoom conferences. Or as another example, former Visiting Fellow Commoner Professor YF invited alumnus mathematician AG to a mathematics conference he organized in Kyushu.

2. Make Trinity known in Japan, which serves us all.

You may be surprised, but Trinity with more Nobel Prize winners than all of Japan, is not known in Japan. As example, a Japanese investment banker with whom I recently had lunch, told me that “Trinity College Cambridge is not known to the Japanese Elite”. I invited him to one of our Trinity Japan zoom events, so now at least he knows about Trinity, and I hope he will spread the message to his friends.

In my experience, too many Japanese people when they hear about Cambridge Colleges think about Harry Potter first. We have to change that, and I have a number of ideas for that. So my second purpose is to create mind-share, foot print for Trinity in Japan to help opportunities grow.

By the way, I am doing this in parallel with the Ludwig Boltzmann Forum, which I am building as a global leadership forum, here in Tokyo with the Austrian Embassy, and other locations, and in parallel on zoom, in honor of my great-grandfather Ludwig Boltzmann who is one of the most important physicists. (https://boltzmann.com/forum/)

3. Lastly, UK investment into Japan is dramatically lower than Japanese investment in UK. Japan is difficult, our Trinity community can help.

Gerhard Fasol (Trinity 1978, PhD, and former Fellow), Founder and Chair, Trinity in Japan

See also: “The Fountain, Boltzmann anD Japan” in The Fountain, Issue 29, Summer 2020

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All Trinity members – Fellows, Past Fellows, students, alumni very welcome

On Thursday 22 September 2022 at 6:00pm, Professor Dominic Lieven, Historian and Honorary Fellow of Trinity, has very kindly agreed to join us for a keynote, discussion and dinner on “The Ukrainian crisis”.

The Ambassador of Ireland to Japan, HE Damien Cole, and members of the Ireland Japan Chamber of Commerce will join us for this event.

• 6:00pm – 7:00 pm Dominic Lieven “The Ukraine crisis”
• 7pm-9pm discussion and dinner
• nijikai

Cost of this meeting will be YEN 10,000 including Kaiseki banquet-style dinner and unlimited drinks from a fixed list, nijikai is extra. We will meet in central Tokyo.

This meeting is joint with the Ireland Japan Chamber of Commerce.

Registration and prepayment until Thursday 15 September 2022. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

Given the Covid-19 situation we will follow all Government and restaurant rules on hygiene. If the situation changes and it becomes necessary to postpone I will notify those who have registered.

Professor Dominic Lieven, Trinity Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow

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
• And here, Dominic Lieven on “The European Crisis” in Nikkei

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Meeting on 29 September 2019 with Mike Tehranchi, University Lecturer, Statistical Laboratory, and Trinity Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics.

Mike Tehranchi visited Tokyo for

• a series of lectures at the Tokyo Metropolitan University TMO Workshop on Finance https://www.biz.tmu.ac.jp/quantitative-finance/workshop/tmu2019/ and the
• Marunouchi Quantitative Finance Seminar https://www.biz.tmu.ac.jp/quantitative-finance/qf_seminar/

All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome

Will meet on Friday 30 August 2019 at 7pm in central Tokyo. Professor Dominic Lieven, Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow of Trinity and one of the most eminent Russian and European historians is planning to join.

The charge is YEN 10,000 (prepaid before Friday 23 August 2019) for kaiseki dinner and two hours of unlimited drinks from a fixed menu.

All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome.

Please register and prepay until Friday 23 August 2019. I will let those who registered know of the location.

Professor Dominic Lieven, Trinity Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Lieven
• Professor Lieven at LSE
• Professor Dominic Lieven at Harvard
• And here, Dominic Lieven on “The European Crisis” in Nikkei

Professor Dominic Lieven’s most recent book Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia was selected as FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015, and was awarded the Pushkin House Prize – watch interviews with Professor Dominic Lieven here.

Professor Lieven’s recent book “Russia against Napoleon. The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814“, won the Wolfson History Prize and the Annual Prize of the Fondation Napoléon.

Here are some more of Professor Dominic Lieven’s works

• Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals (Yale Nota Bene)
• Nicholas II: Twilight of the Empire
• Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia
• The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
• Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace
• The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689–1917
• The Aristocracy in Europe 1815-1914
• 帝国の興亡〈上〉―グローバルにみたパワーと帝国
• 帝国の興亡〈下〉―ロシア帝国とそのライバル
• ニコライ2世―帝政ロシア崩壊の真実

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All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome

Will meet on Friday 28 June 2019 at 7pm in central Tokyo. The charge is YEN 10,000 (prepaid before Friday 21 June 2019) for kaiseki dinner and two hours of unlimited drinks from a fixed menu.

All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome.

Please register and prepay until Friday 21 June 2019. I will let those who registered know of the location.

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All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome

Will meet on Thursday 4 April 2019 at 7pm in central Tokyo. The charge is YEN 10,000 (prepaid before Friday 29 March 2019) for kaiseki dinner and two hours of unlimited drinks from a fixed menu.

All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome.

Please register and prepay until Friday 29 March 2019. I will let those who registered know of the location.

Trinity Senior Research Fellow, Professor Dominic Lieven, plans to join us on 4 April.

Trinity Senior Research Fellow, Professor Dominic Lieven

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Lieven
• Professor Lieven at LSE
• Professor Dominic Lieven at Harvard
• And here, Dominic Lieven on “The European Crisis” in Nikkei

Professor Dominic Lieven’s most recent book Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia was selected as FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015, and was awarded the Pushkin House Prize – watch interviews with Professor Dominic Lieven here.

Professor Lieven’s recent book “Russia against Napoleon. The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814“, won the Wolfson History Prize and the Annual Prize of the Fondation Napoléon.

Here are some more of Professor Dominic Lieven’s works

• Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals (Yale Nota Bene)
• Nicholas II: Twilight of the Empire
• Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia
• The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution
• Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace
• The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 2, Imperial Russia, 1689–1917
• The Aristocracy in Europe 1815-1914
• 帝国の興亡〈上〉―グローバルにみたパワーと帝国
• 帝国の興亡〈下〉―ロシア帝国とそのライバル
• ニコライ2世―帝政ロシア崩壊の真実

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JC Swaan and Gerhard Fasol meet in Tokyo

All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome

Will meet on Friday 22 February 2019 at 7pm in central Tokyo. The charge is YEN 10,000 (prepaid before Friday 15 Feb 2019) for kaiseki dinner and two hours of unlimited drinks from a fixed menu.

All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome.

Please register and prepay until Friday 15 February 2019. I will let those who registered know of the location.

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All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome

Trinity in Japan meeting in Tokyo Friday 30 November 2018 at 7pm

• 7pm – 9:30pm dinner meeting
• after 9:30pm – nijikai drinks nearby

The fee including dinner and unlimited drinks will be YEN 10,000, nijikai drinks etc are separate.

All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome.

Registration and prepayment until Friday 23 November 2018. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

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Trinity in Japan meeting on Thursday 25 October 2018 at 8pm in Tokyo

• 8:00pm – 9:30pm dinner
• after 9:30pm – nijikai drinks nearby

This time we split costs at the dinner, no fixed charge.

All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome.

Registration until Friday 19 October 2018. I will send location details to those who register.

Usually we go for nijikai nearby.

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Trinity in Japan members at the historic Takachiho Fluorescent Light Bulb Plant

On Saturday 23 June 2018 some Trinity in Japan members met at the historic Takachiho Fluorescent Light Bulb Plant in the center of Tokyo.

Trinity in Japan meeting in Tokyo Friday 31 August 2018 at 7pm

All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome

The fee is again YEN 10,000 including a kaiseki menu and unlimited drinks for about 2 hours, please prepay the fee as always. Usually we go for nijikai nearby.

Registration and prepayment deadline is Friday 24 August 2018. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

If you are Trinity College Cambridge member living in or visiting Japan and like to register:

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Trinity in Japan meeting in Tokyo Thursday 22 June 2018 at 7pm

All Fellows or members of Trinity College (Cambridge University) living in or visiting Tokyo are very welcome

The fee is again YEN 10,000 including a kaiseki menu and unlimited drinks for about 2 hours, please prepay the fee as always. Usually we go for nijikai nearby.

With kind support from the College, we may be able to offer a subsidized rate for students, interns or comparable, please let me know when you register in case you like to be considered.

Registration and prepayment deadline is Friday 15 June 2018. I will send location details and account details for prepayment to those who register.

If you are Trinity College Cambridge member living in or visiting Japan and like to register:

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