2025 June Event T.B.D.

Following the great success of last year, the Early Summer Party will be held on Thursday May 29th, at Tsunamachi Mitsui Club, in a spectacular mansion designed by Josiah Conder (1852-1920), originally as the guesthouse for the opulent Mitsui Family.

The participants will have an opportunity to explore its beautiful gardens before the Buffet Dinner in the mansion.

This event will be extremely popular. A notice of the event with the Google Form to register will be going out in early May, so please check your inbox regularly.

*GENERAL NOTE ON BRINGING GUESTS
You are welcome to bring 1 guest to this event. Please write the name of the guest when registering on the Google Form. Unspecified guest will not be accepted. If your original guest cannot make it to the event, please contact Naoko Miyazaki by email. If there is already a waiting list at the time of your guest's cancellation, the spot will go the first C&O member on the waiting list.

On the evening of Saturday, 22nd March 2025, 158 members and guests of The Cambridge & Oxford Society gathered at the Imperial Hotel to celebrate the Society’s 120th anniversary. For this special celebration, it was not only the venue’s name that brought an imperial flair to the evening, but also the attendee list: members and guests were honoured by the presence of HIH Princess Akiko of Mikasa (Merton, Oxford 2004) and HIH Princess Takamado (Girton, Cambridge 1972).

Upon arrival, attendees were naturally drawn into the first gathering hall by the alluring sounds of conversation, champagne glasses clinking, and beautiful live music performed by a string quartet from the Toho Gakuen School of Music.

When the staff opened the doors to the main dining hall, attendees discovered that this delightful beginning was just the prelude to the evening. As if looking through a kaleidoscope, the opening of the dinner hall doors revealed the visual spectacle that is the Fuji Room. This impressive 1,200-square-meter hall adorned with two large chandeliers and a beautiful gold backdrop of its namesake mountain, would serve as the dining hall for the evening. The hall perfectly completed the black-tie dress code of the evening, creating a scene that could easily have been from a different era.

Representative Honorary Secretary Tim Minton (St John’s Cambridge 1977) opened the proceedings by reminding all of the origin and rich history of the society. Some of this history will remain a bit of a mystery, as Tim shared that the first minutes book of the Society likely did not make it through the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. What was however not a mystery was the number of attendees from each college, Tim Minton having shared an excellent overview.

Building on this theme, Princess Takamado and Princess Akiko reminded us in their speeches of how regardless of the unique achievements and experiences we all had at our different colleges, it is the common experience of attending Cambridge and Oxford that keeps bringing members together across borders, generations, and indeed even across the two universities.

This event is full, but members are still welcome to register for a place on the waiting list.

To wind down from the 120th Anniversary Celebration last month, we will be holding a casual dinner with lots of wine at Oenophilia in Meguro, a venue highly rated by members when we went there for the first time in September last year.

Members who wish to attend should register via the Google Form link specified in the notice distributed on 3rd April.

Please address enquiries to Naoko Miyazaki (naoko[dot]miyazaki[at]camford[dot]org]).

This event is full, and we are no longer accepting applications to attend.

Although we are not absolutely sure, we think 2025 marks the 120th anniversary of the founding of The Cambridge & Oxford Society, Tokyo. To celebrate, we are holding a black-tie dinner at the Imperial Hotel on Saturday, March 22nd:

Reception desk opens at 17:15
Aperitifs, Fuji Room (17:45 - 18:30)
Seated full-course dinner, Fuji Room (18:30 - 20:30)
After-dinner drinks, Imperial Lounge Aqua Private Bar (21:00 - 23:00)

Dress code: Black tie (formal evening gowns for ladies)

Attendance fees
Aperitifs & dinner only: members 15,000 yen, guests 20,000 yen
Aperitifs, dinner & after-dinner drinks: members 21,000 yen, guests 28,000 yen

Members who wish to attend should apply via the Google Form link in the information distributed on February 11th. Enquiries may be sent to Tim Minton (t.minton[at]camford[dot]org).

This event is full, and applications to attend are no longer being accepted.

We are now accepting applications from members to attend our first event of 2025, a seated dinner at The Tokyo Club.

The attendance fee is ¥8,000 per person, and the deadline for signing up is January 31st. Members should use the link given in the notice distributed on January 14th to apply.

Please direct any enquiries to Tim Minton (t.minton[at]camford[dot]org).

The list for this event is now full, but members are still welcome to register themselves for inclusion on the waiting list by contacting Tim Minton.

We are now accepting applications from members to attend our December event, a Christmas Party at Kasumi Kaikan with a special lecture by Dr Elisabeth Kendall, Mistress of Girton College, University of Cambridge.

The attendance fee is ¥8,500 for members / ¥10,000 for guests, and the deadline for signing up is November 29th. Members should use the link given in the notice distributed on November 14th to apply.

Please direct any enquiries to Tim Minton (t.minton[at]camford[dot]org).

If you would like to participate in our Autumn Golf Tournament, please contact the Golf Secretary, Steven Thomas, directly (spthomas1961[at]gmail[dot]com).

The list for this event is now full, but members are still welcome to register themselves for inclusion on the waiting list via the Google Form link given in the notice distributed on 17th October.

We are now accepting applications from members to attend our November event, a buffet dinner at The Industry Club of Japan (日本工業倶楽部) in Marunouchi.

The attendance fee is ¥10,000 per person, and the deadline for signing up is October 31st. Members should use the link given in the notice distributed on October 17th to apply.

Please direct any enquiries to Tim Minton (t.minton[at]camford[dot]org).

The list for this event is now full, but members are still welcome to register themselves for inclusion on the waiting list via the Google Form link given in the notice distributed on 24th September.

Applications to attend our October event, a buffet dinner at Kōjunsha, are now being accepted via the link specified in the notice distributed to members on 24th September. The deadline to sign up is 9th October.

Please address enquiries to Tim Minton (t.minton[at]camford[dot]org]).