EVENTS
Academia & Science
Avant-Garde Calligraphy between Postwar Japan, Europe, and the United States
17 January 2019
Weston Room, Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
As the French theoretician of abstract art Michel Seuphor wrote in 1962, “in the 1960s, every abstract painter is fascinated by the East, dreams of visiting Japan, perhaps to find the delights of Japanese calligraphy.” This talk is dedicated to the artists who launched and fuelled this fascination....
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The Importance of Cultural Diversity. A long-term comparative perspective between prehistoric Japan and Britain – with Junzo Uchiyama
21 January 2019
The Swedenborg Society, London
The most distinct characteristic of human beings is our ability to create various cultures. While genetic studies have confirmed that modern humans are biologically a species which emerged a relatively recent 200,000 years ago....
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Talk: Portland Japanese Garden: An American Interpretation of a Japanese Artform
28 January 2019
Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London
The Japanese Portland Garden is a traditional Japanese garden in Portland, Oregon. The Garden, which was designed in 1963, covers 12 acres and has eight separate garden styles..
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School visit to celebrate the UK-Japan Season of Culture 2019-2020 and to highlight Japanese culture in Wales
31 January 2019
Sony UK Technology Centre, Bridgend
A special event for local school children to experience Japanese culture first hand; Japan of the past, present and future.
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Japan-UK Symposium on 3D Active-site Science in London
4 February 2019
Embassy of Japan, London
"Active site" is a keyword indicating the atomic structures of the active centers, which govern functions in all inorganic-, organic- and bio-materials.
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Shogi Lecture & Workshop
4 February 2019
University of Stirling, Stirling
The University of Stirling will be holding a seminar and workshop to introduce the Japanese chess game, Shōgi.
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Dartford Grammar School and Japan Foundation GCSE and IB Meeting
8 February 2019
King's College, London
There will be a Japanese GCSE and IB Meeting at King’s College London on Friday 8th February 2019. This will be an opportunity for teachers teaching GCSE Japanese and/or IB Japanese to share and discuss schemes of work and resources; conduct moderation and share good practice in preparation for upcoming changes to the GCSE and IB syllabus.
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Starting new joint Research funded by UKRI-JSPS
14 February 2019
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) are pleased to invite applications to the first UKRI-JSPS Joint Call....
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International symposium: Japan in the World and the World in Japan:
A Methodological Approach
15-16 February 2019
Sainsbury Institute, Norwich
An international symposium on teaching Japanese Studies and Japan-related topics around the world.The “Japan-in-the-World Forum” is an organization of young researchers and instructors seeking to establish a network/ discussion forum for young researchers and instructors...
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Translating Yukio Mishima’s The Frolic of the Beasts – with Andrew Clare
18 February 2019
The Swedenborg Society, London
The Frolic of the Beasts (Kemono no tawamure) is a gripping short novel from the acclaimed Japanese author Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, it tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle between a former university student, Koji...
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Book Launch: The Unmaking of An American
20 February 2019
Daiwa Foundation, London
The Unmaking of an American is Roger Pulvers’ cross-cultural memoir spanning decades of history on four continents. He explores the nature of memory through connections created from people and places, both past and present....
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Sake Symposium: Understanding the Unique Aspects of Sake
20 February 2019
Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London
The Japan Foundation and SOAS are hosting a special symposium looking at the Japanese phenomenon that is sake. Widely seen as the national drink of Japan, sake exports have been booming in recent years, with its unique taste and wide range of flavours, it has been appearing more and more on UK menus....
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Japan and the United Kingdom – A Collaborative Future
21 February 2019
Royal Society of Edinburgh
A panel discussion on the opportunities and challenges for future Japan-UK cooperation in a post-Brexit environment at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the 21st of February.
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Talk: Re-imagining Akutagawa
22 February 2019
Daiwa Foundation, London
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan’s great writers – author of the stories ‘Rashōmon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’, most famously – who lived through Japan’s turbulent Taishō period, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927 ....
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Author Talk: Kyoko Nakajima
22 February 2019
London Review Bookshop, London
Kyoko Nakajima is a Japanese fiction writer and essayist, who started her career as a novelist with “FUTON” in 2003. Nakajima’s highly acclaimed novels have won multiple prestigious literary prizes in Japan including the Izumi Kyoka Prize for “When My Wife Was a Shiitake” (Tsuma ga Shiitake data koro) ....
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Japan Foundation and British Association for Teachers of Japanese Seminar
23 February 2019
University of Manchester
"Japanese language that brings together" themed seminar by Professor Thomson from New South Wales University, Australia.
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An evening on Fukushima
27 February 2019
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh will be holding an informative evening dedicated to learning about the progress of Fukushima’s environmental recovery.
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Japan-UK Workshop - Overcoming health challenges at different life stages, using big data, biobank and cohort approaches
27 February 2019
University of Bristol, Bristol
"In order to advance research and development on life stage challenges (e.g. influences on timing of dementia onset, effects of fetal exposure in adolescence), we will hold a joint workshop between researchers..."
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Japanese-British Lawyers Networking Reception
28 February 2019
Embassy of Japan, London
A networking opportunity for Japanese and British lawyers in the UK in association with British Japanese Law Association (BJLA).Invitation Only.
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Japan UK Technology and Humanity in Education 2019
1 March 2019
The Royal Institution, London
With the aim of further developing awareness and understanding of the impact that emerging new technologies would have on our economy and wider society, the event will be held with leading Japanese and UK IoT companies.
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The 14th Japanese Speech Contest for University Students
2 March 2019
Great Hall, Kings' College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
This contest gives students the chance to make their voices heard in Japanese, and win some fantastic prizes! Finalists will all perform their speeches on Saturday 2nd March 2019 at King’s College London.
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Japan-UK infectious disease symposium
6 - 7 March 2019
Embassy of Japan, London
The Core-to-Core program of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) works to create world-class research hubs through networking to advance multilateral collaboration in cutting-edge fields of science.
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University of Leicester-Tokyo Metropolitan University Joint Symposium “Multilateral Approaches to Life and Environments”
6 - 8 March 2019
University of Leicester
The University of Leicester-Tokyo Metropolitan University Joint Symposium “Multilateral Approaches to Life and Environments” showcases the cutting-edge research work in astrophysics, neuroscience, structual biology, mechanobiology, biosensing and anthropology areas. Invitation only.
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JF/BAJS Japanese Studies Postgraduate Workshop 2019 : Career Progression
8 March 2019
Cardiff University, Wales
This workshop aims to assist the development of the next generation of Japanese Studies researchers and academics currently studying in the UK. Every year it provides a great opportunity for students to receive practical advice on their own research from senior colleagues, and to get to know fellow postgraduate students and members of the Japanese Studies Community.
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Japan and the Future of the Liberal International Order
8 March 2019
Japan House London
Join us at Japan House for a discussion event held in partnership with Chatham House and the Embassy of Japan in the UK.
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Seminar: Prevention of Recidivism: Trends in Japanese Criminal Policy
13 March 2019
Daiwa Foundation, London
One of the most serious current issues in criminal policy in Japan is the prevention of recidivism. Traditionally, Japan has a unique probation system which has greatly contributed to preventing recidivism,,.....
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Cardiff, Wales – Sakai City, Fukui, Japan school exchange programme
Japan to Cardiff exchange visit: 13 - 22 March 2019
Cardiff to Japan exchange visit: 26 June - 5 July 2019
This is a Cultural pupil exchange programme and has a long-standing partnership of 27 years. It aims to continue to work in partnership with Sakai City’s Board of Education and to create opportunities for their and our young people and families to create life-long bonds and friendships.
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Seminar: Foreign Refugee Flows into Japan: Asylum Seekers’ Circuitous Path
14 March 2019
Daiwa Foundation, London
Japan has positioned itself in paradoxical ways on the issue of refugees. Although it takes very few refugees itself, last year it contributed more than $US 150 million to the UNHCR, the fourth largest behind the US, Germany and the EU,.....
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Kyoto University and Goldsmiths, University of London, Art & Science International Symposium 2019
15 - 16 March 2019
Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan
The Second International Symposium co-organised by Kyoto University and Goldsmiths, University of London, cordially invites you to the symposium on Art Innovation held in Kyoto in March 2019.
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Can a ‘Religion’ Be Translated as ‘Culture’? Tenrikyō’s Cultural Activities in Its Propagation in France – with Masato Kato
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18 March 2019
The Swedenborg Society, London
Masato Kato is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions, SOAS University of London. He received a PhD (2018) from SOAS upon completing his doctoral research on the negotiation of cultural identity of Tenrikyo in relation to its propagation in France...
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MEXT scholarship predeparture orientation and reception
19 March 2019
Embassy of Japan, London
Presentations by outgoing scholars and a reception with alumni and invited guests.
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Seminar: Sustainable Development Goals: Japanese and UK approaches
20 March 2019
Daiwa Foundation, London
Since their adoption by the United Nations in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been embraced with remarkable alacrity by the Japanese government and institutions, including notably Keidanren, the Japanese equivalent of the CBI.....
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Book Launch: The Englishman who saved the Japanese cherry
22 March 2019
Daiwa Foundation, London
Collingwood Ingram, known as ‘Cherry’ for his defining obsession, was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change.....
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What Brexit Means for Japan
28 March 2019
Daiwa Foundation, London
As Brexit day on March 29th rapidly approaches, Japanese companies based in the UK have started to prepare for a no-deal scenario. Honda has recently announced the closure of its UK production line for four-wheeled vehicles by 2021 (though it stated that Brexit was not the reason),..
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OU-UCL Kick-off Workshop for Strategic Partnership
28, 29 March 2019
University College London, London
Workshop for further collaboration between Osaka University and UCL.
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Fukushima Hamadori HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY 2019
March - October 2019
Various Locations
This event will be organised by Specified Non-profit Corporation HAPPY ROAD NET. "We are arranging an educational project which will provide 20 high school students from Fukushima Hamadori an opportunity to visit Sellafield Ltd...."
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“Like Bombs”: Narrative, Memory, and Linguistic Terrorism in Contemporary Okinawan Fiction – with Vicky Young
15 April 2019
The Swedenborg Society, London
In 2002, one year after 9.11, the Okinawan writer Sakiyama Tami published one of her most provocative essays, entitled “Shimakotoba de kachāshī” (“Inciting with Island Words”). Split into three parts, the essay targets standard Japanese (hyōjungo) as a monolithic language symbolic of hegemonic oppression and....
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Book Launch: The Ghost of Namamugi
17 April 2019
Daiwa Foundation, London
In 1862 a British merchant was killed by samurai, in uncertain circumstances, at Namamugi – a quiet village near Yokohama. One year later, a British fleet bombarded the port of Kagoshima in response, reducing much of the city to ash....
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Shinkansen and the Tokyo Olympics
25 April 2019
Daiwa Foundation, London
The Shinkansen, or bullet train, is an icon of Japan. The trains are some of the fastest in the world, reaching top speeds of 200 mph, and are famously punctual.....
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Third Thursday Lectures:Tattoos, homesickness and adventure: British royals in Japan and Japanese royals in Britain in the 19th century
25 April 2019
Norwich Cathedral Hostry
Queen Victoria came into indirect contact with Japan in 1868, but in the following year her second son spent several weeks in Japan and in the early 1870s several members of the Japanese imperial family visited Britain,....
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Talk:Colours, Clothing and the Seasons in The Tale of Genji: A Talk by Dr Jennifer GUEST
29 April 2019
The Hall, Japan House London
Often referred to as the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji is arguably the classic work of Japanese literature. Written by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady-in-awaiting at the imperial court in Kyoto in the early 11th century, the novel tells of the romantic encounters of Shining Prince ‘Genji’, painting a vivid picture of the lifestyles of the noblemen and women of the contemporary Heian court through its detailed descriptions of their colourful clothing...
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The Rise of Populism and Japan
30 April 2019
The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London
Despite growing populism around the world, the rise of Trumpism and the Brexit labyrinth in the UK, Japan seems to be a relatively stable democracy. Japan has successfully advanced free trade initiatives in the Asia Pacific region and with Europe....
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Tokyo 2020 and Japan’s Soft Power
1 May 2019
University of Oxford, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Amidst the flux of the liberal international order, Japan’s public diplomacy, which relies solely on its cultural uniqueness, is inadequate. Professor Yasushi Watanabe of Keio University proposes new principles for an age where the diplomatic sphere is expanding from negotiation tactics to agenda setting and norm setting. In this presentation,....
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Modern Japan in the Comparative Imagination
9 & 10 May 2019
Durham University, Durham
This conference considers how modern Japanese history, literature, and art have been shaped by and understood through comparisons across national and cultural boundaries.....
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Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’: A Two-Day International Conference to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
10 - 11 May 2019
The Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
On the 10th and 11th May 2019, the Nissan Institute will be host to an international conference to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration and mark the imperial transition....
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Hikikomori in Japan and the UK
16 May 2019
Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London
Hikikomori (social withdrawal) is one of the major social problems faced in modern Japanese society. It appeared in the latter half of the 1980s and has become a serious social problem since the 2000s. In March 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare categorised over 610,000 adults as Hikikomori...
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Japan Information Day: Education & Research Opportunities
17 May 2019
Embassy of Japan, London
Targeted at university staff, it aims to provide information about programmes i teaching, studying and researching in Japan as well as network with relevent organisations.
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The Emperor System in Japan. Origins, Evolution and the New Imperial Era – with William Horsley
23 May 2019
The Swedenborg Society, London
Emperor Akihito’s abdication in favour of his son Crown Prince Naruhito has re-ignited a many-sided debate about the fundamental values of Japanese society and the state itself.....
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Japan Room Lecture: A Glimpse into East-West Relations in the Antiquarian Book Trade
28 May 2019
The Freemasons’ Hall, London
Sokol Books has a history with Japan going back some forty years and this has been at times exciting, frustrating but always enjoyable....
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Reiwa – a new era in Japan
29 May 2019
Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London
Japan will enter into a new era of ‘fortunate harmony’ from 1st May, a day after Emperor Akihito abdicates and is succeeded by his eldest son Crown Prince Naruhito, ending the imperial era Heisei. Since the Gengo system began in the 7th century, the country has adopted almost 250 eras. This one, however, will be marked by Japan’s first imperial abdication in more than 200 years...
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Pump It Up!
4 June 2019
Howden Park Centre, Scotland
It is a school project which all high schools in West Lothian participate. Children will create a new idea/product with Heat Pump....
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JSPS-Crick Symposium on Gut Tissue Circuits
11 June 2019
Francis Crick Institute, London
The gastrointestinal tract is a densely innervated organ that also contains the largest number of immune cells in the body.
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York-Tohoku-Kaiserslautern Research Symposium on "New-Concept Spintronic Devices"
12 - 14 June 2019
University of York, York
A symposium on new concept spintronic devices to disseminate results obtained through the JSPS-EPSRC-DFG-funded Core-to-Core programme.
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Family Firms as Institutions: Cultural reproduction and status maintenance among multicentenary shinise in Kyoto
17 June 2019
The Swedenborg Society, London
Shinise are firms that have survived for more than a century (often for three or four), have retained ownership within the family, and focus on traditional line of business such as sake brewing, confectionery, temple ornaments or textiles....
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Europe Goes to Tokyo
21 June 2019
King Edward's Witley School, Surrey
A challenge event for Year 9 and 10 students learning French, German and Spanish and introducing them also to Japanese. Theme will be the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Nihongo Cup 2019
22 June 2019
>Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford
Nihongo Cup, the Japanese Speech Contest for Secondary School students, is accepting applications across three categories: Key Stage 3, Pre-GCSE Key Stage 4/5, and Post GCSE Key Stage 4 and 5...
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Europe Goes to Tokyo
24 June 2019
University of Nottingham, Nottingham
A challenge event for Year 9 and 10 students learning French, German and Spanish and introducing them also to Japanese. Theme will be the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Japan Orientation：An introduction to the study of Japan and its place in the world
29 June - 13 July 2019
University of East Anglia, Norwich
This international undergraduate summer school is dedicated to the study of Japan and its role in world.
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Japan Youth Challenge 2019
20 - 27 July 2019
University College London
Applications are now open for the Japan Youth Challenge 2019.
Hosted at UCL (University College London), the UCL-Japan Youth Challenge (UJYC) brings together pre-university students from the UK and Japan in a 10-day summer school programme. We are currently looking for 50 British students to join their Japanese counterparts..
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Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowship 2019
27 July - 17 August 2019
University of East Anglia, Norwich
The Centre for Japanese Studies at the UEA is hosting an intensive three-week postgraduate level fellowship in Japanese Arts and Cultural Heritage.
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JET programme predeparture orientation and reception 2019
July 2019
Embassy of Japan, London
Travel advice and Japanese language sessions followed by a reception with invited guests.
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MEXT scholarship predeparture orientation and reception 2020
March 2020
Embassy of Japan, London
Presentations by outgoing scholars and a reception with alumni and invited guests.
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Information day on education and Research in Japan 2020
May 2020
Embassy of Japan, London
Targeted at university staff, it aims to provide information about programmes i teaching, studying and researching in Japan as well as network with relevent organisations.
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JET programme predeparture orientation and reception 2020
July 2020
Embassy of Japan, London
Travel advice and Japanese language sessions followed by a reception with invited guests.
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