“Big in Japan” [日本でビッグ]

John Maloney

 Jane Cox has recently been in Japan and mention of it prompted me to reminisce about my connection with that country. In 1992, through the ‘good offices’ of Dr. Akira Matsu, a leading Japanese archaeologist, I was invited by the Japanese Ministry of Culture to go on an all expenses paid three week lecture tour of major museums and archaeological units in Japan [generously, Cath’s costs for a one week stay were also covered]. Akira and a number of colleagues had visited London on fact finding missions about the approaches to excavation techniques, raising developer funding and public archaeology of the Dept. of Urban Archaeology, Museum of London [for which I was the Principal Archaeological Excavations Officer, City of London]. At that time the DUA (which covered the City of London, the historic core of London) was the largest and leading urban archaeology unit in the world.

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