For Will Hollingworth's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Tourism officials are preparing for an increase in Japanese visitors to England's Lake District next year with the release of a movie on the life of children's author Beatrix Potter. Potter's most famous book -- "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" -- is read by many ...
British museums and galleries are looking for ways to revitalize their collections of Japanese artifacts and increase the public's interest in them. Britain has one of the largest and most diverse collections of Japanese items outside Japan. There are an estimated half a million objects ...
Slow to take off, "manga" comics have finally hit it big in Britain and are now the fastest-growing sector in the publishing industry here. Many young Brits who think Japan is cool have been drawn to manga through animation films, computer games and toys just ...
Japanese tourists visiting London may feel like they are back at home with the recent introduction of a police box in the center of the capital, similar to the "koban" found throughout Japan. London's police erected a ministation in Piccadilly Circus -- the heart of ...
LONDON (Kyodo) Former Far East prisoners-of-war in Britain have given a mixed reaction to a proposal by an Imperial Japanese Army veteran to have the ruins of the infamous Thailand-Burma railway designated a World Heritage site. Some former POWs are suspicious of the initiative and ...
LONDON (Kyodo) Campaigners on Monday called on Japan to lead efforts to strengthen the international code on the export of small arms. The London-based International Action Network on Small Arms, a group of more than 700 civic organizations around the world, wants the rules to ...
LONDON (Kyodo) Despite her rather formal appearance, Queen Elizabeth is known to enjoy the occasional joke and can take pleasure when formal proceedings don't go exactly as planned. However, one potential slight on Japan's Imperial family was just too much for her, according to a ...
LONDON (Kyodo) BBC Japan, the British Broadcasting Corp.'s channel dedicated to Japanese viewers, has had an encouraging start since its December launch, but senior managers acknowledge that the choice of a digital platform has caused criticism. The channel, a mixture of light entertainment, documentaries and ...
A pillar of the British establishment was passing secret information about aviation design to Japan during the 1920s, according to secret government files declassified Thursday. The British Foreign Office files from 1926 show that Lord Sempill, reputedly one of the founders of the Royal Flying ...
Historians have expressed their delight at the discovery in London of one of the earliest photographs of a Japanese. The photograph, taken either in 1851 or 1852 in San Francisco, is a portrait of Sentaro -- a Japanese sailor who was shipwrecked in the Pacific ...
