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Registered charity · London

The Japan Society

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £664k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Japan, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.japansociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Japan Society
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£664k£570k
  • 2024£523k£605k
  • 2023£446k£428k
Earlier years
  • 2022£393k£440k
  • 2021£381k£381k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE LEARNING AND ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECT OF AND WITH REGARD TO JAPAN; (B) TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF JAPAN AND ITS PEOPLE IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS, TRADITIONAL AND MODERN, AND TO MAKE THE RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY MORE ACCESSIBLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC; (C) TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF BRITAIN AND ITS CULTURE BY JAPANESE PEOPLE AND TO FURTHER EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGES BETWEEN BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

15 trustees on the board

2.2y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (3)

12
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 15Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 13Finance 5Professional services 4

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£523k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

9
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1063952
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15 MAY 1997 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 30 JUNE 1999, 18 JULY 2005 AND 10 JUNE 2009 as amended on 11 Sept 2024
Companies House
Company number 03371038 · Active
Contact on the register
02079350475 · info@japansociety.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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