Tokyo
22/08/2024
Contact our UK P&I Club Japan Branch/TMKK Office for more information on our Shipowners Liability Insurance or to lodge a claim
Daisuke Ozawa
15/07/2024
Daisuke Ozawa graduated in Law from Waseda University before training with an IG P&I Club in both underwriting and claims
Tsuyoshi Shiraki
05/07/2024
Tsuyoshi Shiraki is a Senior Claims Executive and joined TMKK in September 2019, having completed 6 years in the service of the Club's correspondents, ISS P&I Japan mainly worked for Japanese Members
Takehiro Endo
12/06/2024
Takehiro Endo graduated from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology and then worked in an IG P&I Club for 11 years in claims, loss prevention and underwriting
Masaaki Hishiki
12/06/2024
Masaaki Hishiki joined the UK Club's Japan Branch in October 2017, prior to him transferring to TMKK in July, 2020
Japan office closures for Golden Week
19/04/2024
Please note that our Japan offices will be closing for three days to celebrate a collection of National holidays known as 'Golden Week'.
Toshiyuki Kawana
07/11/2023
Toshiyuki Kawana is a Senior Underwriting Executive for the UK Club working from the Tokyo office
Hiroshi Sekine
07/11/2023
Captain Sekine joined TMKK in July, 2019
Career Summary
11/05/2022
Hironobu Bekku is the Manager of Imabari Office for the UK P&I Club
On 24 March, the UK P&I Club Japan branch hosted a hybrid loss prevention seminar on the theme of 'Management Responsibility in Marine Casualties' at Tokyo Port City Takeshiba to approximately 200 attendees both online and in person.
UK P&I Club participated in SeaJapan 2022
05/05/2022
On 20-22 April 2022 Sea Japan made a welcome return and we were delighted to participate for the very first time and show our support to one of the biggest maritime tradeshows in Japan.
This article examines what happened when a powerful typhoon passed directly over Osaka Bay, resulting in the dragging of anchor by a Tanker which eventually collided with the connecting bridge to Kansai International Airport
There have been many collisions between cargo ships and fishing vessels near Japan due to the large number of fishing vessels that operate in the waters in this region
On September 18, 2020, the COVID-19 Prevention Guidelines for Operators of Oceangoing Passenger Ships (in Japan) were announced
Nairobi - The Wreck Removal Convention
27/10/2020
To protect parties damaged by pollution and wreck incidents the Japanese government requires P&I insurance for all ships that visit Japanese ports
Japan acceded to International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2001, and Nairobi International Convention on Removal of Wrecks.
The following table lists countries which have imposed bans on vessels fitted with open-loop SOx scrubbers calling at their ports, and on the discharge of washwater from these scrubber systems within their port waters.
Lookout: Issue 1
19/10/2017
We would like to extend a warm welcome to all of our readers to this first edition of Lookout, a new publication looking at some of the main industry issues the Club has been tackling, and to introduce some of the talented people within the Club who advise and help find innovative and creative solutions to some of the most challenging problems that our Members face on a daily basis.
Japan - Time Bars
20/01/2017
Understand the time bar system in Japanese maritime law with key concepts and specific time limits for various claims