[Special] 🕊 UK-Japan WWII Reconciliation with Mary-Grace Browning, MBE

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Beyond Japan with Oliver Moxham

Centre for Japanese Studies at UEA

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Beyond Japan is an interdisciplinary podcast which invites you to take a look at the broad reach of Japanese Studies, both within and beyond Japan. The series is hosted and produced by Oliver Moxham (@OllieMox on Twitter), researcher of language and Japanese war heritage, and brought to you by the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia in collaboration with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Visit https://JapanInNorwich.org/Beyond-Japan to get in touch, find more episode-related resources, watch with subtitles and get PDF transcriptions.

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[Special] 🕊 UK-Japan WWII Reconciliation with Mary-Grace Browning, MBE

Beyond Japan with Oliver Moxham

26 minutes 34 seconds

3 months ago

[Special] 🕊 UK-Japan WWII Reconciliation with Mary-Grace Browning, MBE

2025 marks the 80th year since the end of the Second World War. On the 50th anniversary in 1995, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama announced “the Peace, Friendship and Exchange Initiative, consisting of two parts, promoting: support for historical research into relations in the modern era between Japan and neighbouring countries of Asia and elsewhere [and] to further strengthen the relations of trust between Japan and those countries.” One such initiative was the Pacific Venture programme which saw British grandchildren of former POWs invited to Japan to reconcile their personal conflict history through cultural exchange.

On this special episode of Beyond Japan, Oliver is joined by Mary-Grace Browning MBE who was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun in 2016 for conducting the exchange programme alongside Dr John Pritchard. Mary-Grace shares with us her personal experience of furthering post-conflict reconciliation between the UK and Japan.

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Intro-outro music: ⁠jasonszklarek⁠ / ⁠MotionElements.com⁠

[L] Commemoration, Remembrance and Reconciliation through Arts and Heritage logo. A Sainsbury Institute project.

[R] Royal Legion wreath of the Burma Star Association laid at a memorial for the Imperial Japanese Army 60th Infantry Regiment which served in Myanmar. Ryozen Kannon, Kyoto, 2023. Photograph by Oliver Moxham.