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The Frost Fair
5 & 6 December 2020
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
The Frost Fair is the free-entry biannual winter festival produced by the Whitworth as a weekend-long celebration of winter, art and togetherness. ...
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Doki Doki The Manchester Japanese Festival
7 & 8 November 2020
Sugden Sports Centre, The Bread Shed, Manchester
An event celebrating both traditional and modern Japanese culture.
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Art & Design
Reflections of Japan in East Riding
19 September – 21 November 2020
Beverley Art Gallery, Beverley
‘Reflections of Japan in East Riding’ is an exhibition showing cultural connections between Japan and East Yorkshire using the collections of East Riding of Yorkshire Museums Service. ...
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Go Japan!
13 September 2020
Brands Hatch Circuit, Kent
Go Japan! is the first show of its kind in Europe. It is a one day celebration and host of all things Japanese. ...
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Coventry Young Ambassadors
Until July 2020
Coventry – a variety of venues
City wide project including creation of project called Coventry Young Ambassadors who will promote Japanese education and culture in their schools and wider community.
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Art & Design
Tokyo: Art & Photography
16 July – 22 November 2020
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Tokyo: Art & Photography will explore Japan’s capital city through the varied and vibrant arts it has generated over 400 years, ...
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Sports
Park House School Education Ekiden
13 July 2020
Park House School, Newbury
To apply the concept and traditions of the Ekiden to a school context to create a physical activity event alongside a learning activity ...
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Art & Design
Japan: Water
4 July - 19 September 2020
GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn
A contemporary art exhibition held in a gallery which specialises in art and the environment. Its focus will be on the purity of water in Japan and ...
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JAPAN DAY 2020
4 July 2020
Liverpool Guild of Students, Liverpool
The type of events will be similar to previous Japan Days which included, for example in 2014, formal opening, taiko drummers and awa odori, kyudo, kendo and aikido ...
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Academia & Science
Nihongo Cup 2020
27 June 2020
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford
Nihongo Cup is the Japanese Speech Contest for Secondary School students across three categories: Key Stage 3, Pre-GCSE Key Stage 4/5, and Post GCSE Key Stage 4 and 5.
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Japanese Weekend
13 & 14 June 2020
RHS Garden Rosemoor, North Devon
A weekend celebrating everything Japanese, including an exhibition and demonstration of ikebana by the Ichiyo School of London, calligraphy, Koi carp, Taiko Drumming, an indoor Zen garden, ...
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Theatre & Music
Reiko Fujisawa presents Beethoven – pianist, prophet and dreamer
30 May 2020
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
In an evening of words and music, acclaimed pianist Reiko Fujisawa and Crawford Logan (narrator) explore Beethoven’s extraordinary contribution to musical development and his unmatched legacy ...
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Art & Design
Monogatari: the art of storytelling in Japanese woodblock prints
POSTPONEND
29 May – 4 October 2020
Oriental Museum, Durham University, Durham
A partnership with the National Museum of Japanese History, this exhibition will display parts of the J P Scott Collection of Japanese woodblock prints for the first time. ...
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Theatre & Music
Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra concert performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, featuring Japanese soprano Eri Nakamura
28, 30 May 2020
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
"Japanese company, Brother International, have been sponsors of the Hallé for many years and in 2019 we are celebrating 30 years of consecutive sponsorship –..."
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Theatre & Music
Nobu plays Rachmaninov
14 May 2020
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Liverpool knows and loves Nobuyuki Tsujii – the Japanese pianist, whose artistry and charisma leaves audiences cheering and critics lost for words.
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Theatre & Music
Nobuyuki Tsujii piano
10 May 2020
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
‘His performance had the power of a healing service. It was truly divine’. That’s how the American piano legend Van Cliburn described Nobuyuki Tsujii – and every time he plays with the Orchestra, he brings the house down. But this is Nobu’s first ever solo recital in Liverpool, ....
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Theatre & Music
NOBUYUKI TSUJII – SCHUBERT, SCRIABIN & CHOPIN
9 May 2020
Town Hall, Birmingham
“His performance had the power of a healing service. It was truly divine”. That’s how the American piano legend Van Cliburn described Nobuyuki Tsujii, and you can’t have missed the buzz around this wonderful Japanese pianist, ...
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Academia & Science
Samurai: History and Legend
POSTPONEND
4 May - 26 September 2020
Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge
Samurai are one of the most famous images of Japan, but they are as much legend as history. The great warriors of Japan’s medieval period gave way to an early modern warrior class that ruled in a long time of relative peace, ...
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Koinobori Workshop, Chiddingstone Castle
3 May 2020
Chiddingstone Castle, Edenbridge
Join in with a Japanese Children’s Day holiday tradition – making colourful koi carp flags, or koinobori. ...
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Brogdale Hanami Festival
CANCELLED
18 & 19 April 2020
The National Fruit Collection, Kent
For 2020 our Hanami Festival has increased from a one day event to a two day event due to its rapidly increasing popularity. ...
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Art & Design
Japanese Room Tours, Chiddingstone Castle
POSTPONEND
8 & 26 April 2020
Chiddingstone Castle, Edenbridge
Our curator will be giving tours of the Castle’s Japanese Room focused on the collection which includes samurai arms and armour, lacquerware, ancient tomb figures, and articulated animals or jizai okimono. ...
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Art & Design
Ikebana Demonstration at Chiddingstone Castle
POSTPONEND
5 April 2020
Chiddingstone Castle, Edenbridge
A drop-in demonstration of ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, by masters of the Ohara School of Ikebana, England Chapter. ...
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Theatre & Music
Cherry Blossom Concert – John Cage’s Ryoanji
POSTPONED
29 March 2020
Outside Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Raked gravel, a gurgling stream and an elegant stone arch framed by delicate cherry trees in the heart of Birmingham – it’s Brindleyplace’s Cherry Blossom Garden, a place for reflection and contemplation. ...
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Sports
Coventry Torch Relay – Lighting the Flame of Friendship
POSTPONEND
26 March – 3 July 2020
Coventry
On Thursday, 26th March the Olympic Torch for the 2020 Games will begin its journey in Japan. On the same day, Coventry’s own Torch Relay will begin to make its journey between 54 Coventry schools from the Cathedral ruins. ...
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Art & Design
Manga Workshop Masterclass with Shango Part of The Superlative Artistry of Japan touring exhibition
CANCELLED
21 Mar 2020
Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Salford
Shangomola Edunjobi is an award winning British Manga artist living in London. As part of our celebration of Japanese arts with The Superlative Artistry of Japan exhibition....
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Bunkasai at UEA - Japanese Cultural Festival
CANCELLED
19 March 2020
University of East Anglia, Norwich
“Bunkasai at UEA” is a Japanese cultural festival at the University of East Anglia where you can share your passion for Japan! ...
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Art & Design
Third Thursday Lectures: Kôgei [Craft] in Japan today, a personal perspective
CANCELLED
19 Mar 2020
Norwich Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
Art crafts or kôgei are thriving in modern Japan, building on a long and vibrant history of localised craft production. The dynamism and technical prowess of Japanese artists who work in a wide variety of craft media can be traced to many factors but in no small part have been sustained by formalised systems of patronage....
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Art & Design
Toward the Sunrise
16 March – 2 May 2020
Grierson Galleries, Kent
The literal meaning of the word ‘east’ is incredibly romantic and descends from the old English, ēast, (auest) which itself comes from the Germanic ‘austra’: "East, toward the sunrise," ...
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Japanese Story & Craft Time: A Discover Sundays Activity
CANCELLED
15 March 2020
Millennium Library, Norwich
Students majoring in Japanese language at the University of East Anglia will read Japanese children’s stories (traditional and modern), translated into English by themselves. ...
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University of Sheffield Japan Day of Culture
15 March 2020
The Octagon Centre, Sheffield
Japan Day is an entire day dedicated to celebrating Japanese culture, as well as cherishing our wonderful Japanese exchange students.
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Theatre & Music
Geisha
14 - 21 & 24-28 March 2020
Leeds Grand Theatre & Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
Northern Ballet’s new production for 2020 is Geisha, a ballet by Kenneth Tindall with music by Alexandra Harwood.For geisha, beauty and honour is everything.Two young women, bound by vows of friendship, find themselves in the midst of a collision between East and West....
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Sakura Festival in Leeds Vol.4
14 March 2020
Left Bank Leeds, Leeds
When we ask this question, many people say Sushi, Manga, Anime ..... We would like British people and people from other countries to know Japanese culture has other charms than those well-known images. Moreover, Japanese local culture is also fascinating....
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Theatre & Music
Missing People
12 – 21 March 2020
Leeds Playhouse, Leeds
A thrilling, bilingual show and first co-production between Leeds Playhouse and Kani Public Arts Center in Japan, performed in Japanese and English with surtitles.
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Theatre & Music
Shiki - music celebrating the four seasons of Japan
29 February, 21 March, 26 September 2020
Malton, Easingwold & Pocklington
In evening of music from, and inspired by, Japan, Kaminari UK Taiko Drummers will showcase a range of musical pieces, both traditional and self-composed. ....
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Theatre & Music
Handel’s Messiah
23 February 2020
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
A very special performance of Handel’s Messiah by the Handel Festical Choir.
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Art & Design
Third Thursday Lectures:Word Embodied: Entangled Icons in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Art
20 February 2020
Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
Dr O’Neal’s project on the Japanese jeweled pagoda mandalas reveals the entangled realms of relics, reliquaries, and Buddhist scripture engendered through intricate interactions of word and image. ...
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Japanese Tea Tasting in Oxford
16 February 2020
Britton Room at Trinity College, University of Oxford
Oxford University Tea Appreciation Society (OUTAS) and Oxford University Japan Society (OUJS) are going to host the event of Japanese tea tasting ...
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Theatre & Music
Kodo: Legacy
13, 14, 16 February & 15 March 2020
Basingstoke, Warwick, Dorset & Liverpool
Japan’s legendary Kodo drummers return to their roots with Legacy, a physically stunning and musically sensational show which puts their huge drums centre stage and reworks their treasure trove of signature pieces created across almost 40 years of international touring.
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Academia & Science
Japanese After-school Clubs at Chiddingstone Castle
10, 11 February, 2 - 4 March 2020
Chiddingstone Castle, Edenbridge
As part of our Year of Japan we are running a series of free Japanese after-school clubs for children (recommended age 8 - 11).
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Theatre & Music
The Between the Stones Project
Phase 3: the 2020 performance tour
6 February 2020
Coventry
The 2020 Takasago & Between the Stones tour will involve 18 collaborating artists from Japan, the USA and the UK.
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Theatre & Music
Lunchtime Recital: “Japan in the West, the West in Japan”
3 February 2020
University of Southampton
A Japanese-themed lunchtime recital performed by the Japanese pianist and musicologist Ikuko Inoguchi.
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Academia & Science
Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro – an international conference
1 February 2020
Chancellor's Hall, City Campus, Wolverhampton
The early twenty-first-century presents us with a host of pressing contexts and challenges, from concerns about climate change and technological innovation to diversity issues and shifts in geopolitical power....
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Awaken your zen… Retreat Day
1 February 2020
Chiddingstone Castle, Edenbridge
Welcome the New Year with a retreat day in the Castle and grounds, inspired by Japanese Zen Buddhism. ...
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Film
Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2020
31 January - 29 March 2020
Various
The UK’s largest festival of Japanese cinema is back for its 17th edition under the concept of ‘happiness’.Happiness, though universal in its importance, is felt so subjectively by humankind that the definition of the concept is still very elusive.......
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Academia & Science
Third Thursday Lectures: Mount Fuji: Changing Landscapes in Japanese History
16 January 2020
Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
Fujisan, or Mt. Fuji, is a freestanding volcano and the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776m. Well known as Japan’s national icon, it has been of cultural significance throughout Japanese history and was inscribed as UNESCO Cultural World Heritage in 2013....
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Academia & Science
Introduction to Data and Resources Available at Statistics Bureau Japan
9 January 2020
Nuffield College, Oxford
The symposium aims to showcase data collected and made available to researchers by the Japanese Statistical Bureau.
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Academia & Science
Third Thursday Lectures: Japan’s First Economic Miracle: Coins and Trade in Twelfth Century East Asia
19 December 2019
Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
The twelfth century was a pivotal time in Japan’s history. It witnessed the rise of warriors to national prominence, culminating with the establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate...
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Academia & Science
RENKEI researcher workshop on Climate Change
2 - 4 December 2019
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
The workshop will bring together around 50 researchers at all career stages and across all disciplinary fields interested in developing and proactively taking forward Japan-UK research collaborations in “climate change”...
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Theatre & Music
Ongaku Kyogen Scrooge – Dicken’s A Christmas Carol as Japanese Kyogen with Chamber Ensemble –
27 November 2019
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Music Kyogen Scrooge, produced by Noriko Kawamura, is an innovative theatrical production that combines Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Japanese traditional comedy play Kyogen, and contemporary music.
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Art & Design
Third Thursday Lectures: The Expression of the Four Seasons in Japanese Paintings
21 November 2019
Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
The Japanese climate is customarily represented by four distinctive seasons. Over the centuries, Japanese people have appreciated paintings with subjects of those four seasons; some are depicted on byōbu (folding screens) and kakejiku (hanging scrolls) formats.....
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Art & Design
The Sake Vessel - Contemporary Interpretations
16 November - 4 December 2019
The Stratford Gallery, Stratford on Avon
The Stratford Gallery is delighted to announce that it will be holding an international Sake ware exhibition this coming November.
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Art & Design
Fogscape #03238 Installation at Lumiere Durham 2019
14 to 17 November 2019
Riverside Between Fulling Mill & Framwellgate Bridge, Durham
The Japan Foundation is delighted to support this collaborative installation piece as part of Lumiere Durham 2019!....
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Christmas at Chatsworth
9 November 2019 – 5 January 2020 (closed on 24, 25, 26 December 2019 and 1 January 2020)
Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Discover lands afar at Chatsworth this Christmas, following in the footsteps of explorers Phileas Fogg and Amelia Earhart. Our guides will lead you on a festive adventure around the globe as you travel from a Nordic winter wonderland, through blossom trees in Japan....
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Doki Doki The Manchester Japanese Festival
9 - 10 November 2019
Sugden Sports Centre, Manchester
An event celebrating both traditional and modern Japanese culture to raise awareness of Japanese Culture in the Manchester and around the UK and to support the charity Aid for Japan.
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Film
Japan Sings! – Japanese musicals at QUAD - Derby
7 - 9 November 2019
QUAD, Derby
As part of the British Film Institute’s national season of musicals, QUAD-Derby’s regular Asian movie night Satori Screen will be screening 5 Japanese musicals over three days....
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Theatre & Music
OUTLANDS PRESENTS: ENSÕ SONE - IMPATV & QUJAKU With special guests group A (presenting a new AV set)
6 - 14 November 2019
Variouse in the UK
OUTLANDS experimental music touring network present an original audio-visual collaboration between Japanese psych band Qujaku and UK visual artists IMPATV....
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Bristol Japan Cultural Showcase 2019
3 November 2019
Ashton Court Manor, Bristol
We are providing you Japanese cultural showcase and activities for attendees to enjoy.....
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Japanese Cultural Festival
2 November 2019
Brighthelm Centre, Brighton
This one day event will take place in a central location in Brighton with the aim of celebrating unique Japanese culture through music, performance, food and taster language lessons.
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Academia & Science
Go! Gender Go! Japan: Media Narratives of Identity
2 November 2019
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
The University of Manchester in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University and the Economic and Social Research Council bring to the audience media narratives of gender & identity in Japan.
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Academia & Science
Skilled Migration: Solving Japan’s demographic crisis?
28 October 2019
St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford
In the past decade, skilled migration policies in Japan have undergone some major transformations through the points-based system and the regional migration scheme....
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Art & Design
Textile installation by artist Seiko Kinoshita
18 October - 3 November 2019
Strutts North Mill Museum & Visitor Centre, Belper
Artist Seiko Kinoshita is creating an illuminated lantern walk through the historic Clusters housing in Belper, alongside a contemporary textile installation which will be in the fascinating basement of the North Mill – we can’t wait for this!
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Art & Design
Third Thursday Lectures: Ukiyo-e Printmaking and the Arts and Crafts Movement
17 October 2019
Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
Ukiyo-e prints have inspired many Western artists, and it is particularly well known that some Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists incorporated the motifs and compositional devices of ukiyo-e prints into their paintings....
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Academia & Science
The international conference, ‘Okinawan Art in its Regional Context: Historical Overview and Contemporary Practice’
10 & 11 October 2019
University of East Anglia, Norwich
The international conference, ‘Okinawan Art in its Regional Context: Historical Overview and Contemporary Practice’, to be held at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK.
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Discover Japan
5 October 2019, 14 March 2020
World Museum, Liverpool
At World Museum in Liverpool, alongside a presentation of works by Taki Katei, Japan Society North West will organise: Shamisen playing, Awa Odori dancer, Tengu Taiko, Liverpool Jujitsu, Samurai Armour presentation, Shodo, ...
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Art & Design
Taki Katei – Japanese Paintings
4 October 2019 - 13 April 2020
World Museum, Liverpool
In 2019 National Museums Liverpool will host the first-ever exhibition of Taki Katei’s work outside Japan as part of the Japan 2020 Cultural Olympiad.
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Kodōsai Cultural Event
4 - 6 October 2019
Holiday Inn Basildon, Basildon
A weekend of Japanese cultural workshops delivered to the public in Basildon, Essex. This years event will see Shodo (calligraphy) workshops, Kyujitsu (archery), Cosplay, Japanese language, Ikebana and various traditional martial arts demonstrations.
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Art & Design
Floating Worlds: Japanese Woodcuts
28 September 2019 - 12 January 2020
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton
Come with us on a journey to explore the ‘floating worlds’ of Japan through woodblock prints from the Edo period (1615-1868).
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Academia & Science
Over Here, Over There
26 - 29 September 2019
The Settlement at Castle Hill, Cumbria
A festival in conjunction with Maryport Maritime Museum celebrating migration in Victorian Maryport.
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Theatre & Music
From the Dust of This Wretched Earth
26 September 2019
Phipps Halls, Huddersfield
A collaboration between the Uchledre Centre and dance practitioner Melissa Prasut, this full-length dance production will combine traditional and non-traditional art approaches and involve a number of international artists,...
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Art & Design
Powerful Nature: Inspiring Japanese Art and Culture
20 September 2019 - 26 January 2020
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby
An exhibition of Japanese watercolours and prints from Derby Museums’ own collection, including works made by two of Japan’s most famous artists, Katsushika Hokusai (c.1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).
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Art & Design
Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Woodblock Prints from the Ashmolean Museum
20 September 2019 - 26 January 2020
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby
Giant spiders, dancing skeletons, winged goblins and hordes of ghostly warriors are among the subjects depicted in this display of striking 19th century woodblock prints, drawn from the Ashmolean Museum’s rich collection of Japanese art.
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Academia & Science
Third Thursday Lectures: Book Launch: East Asian Art History in a Transnational Context
19 September 2019
Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
At this book launch Professor Watanabe will firstly introduce the book by explaining why it is so important to understand Japanese art and culture not as something isolated, but as part of a larger context of East Asia.....
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Art & Design
Shrines
17 September - 3 November 2019
Upfront Gallery, Cumbria
Sumi-e, suiboku-ga and photographs of a journey around Japan visiting beautiful and mysterious Shinto shrines....
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Art & Design
Museum of the Moon - coinciding with Tsukimi
16 September - 6 October 2019
Derby Cathedral, Derby
Museum of the Moon is a fusion of lunar imagery, moonlight and surround sound composition created by BAFTA and Ivor Novello award-winning composer Dan Jones and it will be with us from Monday 16 September to Sunday 6 October.
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Art & Design
Kuroko
14 - 29 September 2019
Yorkshire Hub, Leeds
Kuroko is a group exhibition of artists based in UK and Japan working in sculpture. The exhibition is supported and presented by Index Festival Leeds, the artist led fringe festival during the inaugural Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019.
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Film
A season of Japanese Cinema
8 September 2019 - 23 February 2020
Altrincham Little Theatre, Altrincham
In autumn 2019/winter 2020, Altrincham Little Theatre will be hosting a season of Japanese Cinema. Following the success of our recent Italian Film Seasons, we will be joined by regular presenter Maggie Hoffgen, who will introduce the films and lead a discussion session after each screening for anyone who wishes to join in.....
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Will Adams Festival
7 September 2019
Gillingham Park, Medway
At the festival you will experience both maritime history and Japanese culture in the 17th and the 21st century.
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Business
Deloitte Japanese Business Dinner
5 September 2019
HSBC UK National Cycling Centre, Manchester
This is the flagship Japanese business dinner held annually to celebrate the UK & Japan business links in Manchester.
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Theatre & Music
Canary English Rakugo Company: English Rakugo at St Peter's Chaplaincy
1 September 2019
St Peter's House Chaplaincy, Manchester
English Rakugo at St Peter's Chaplaincy presented by Kanariya Eiraku (Sudo Tatsuya), a performer of English Rakugo.
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Theatre & Music
“Noh” Introductory Workshop
24 August 2019
The Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool
The master noh actor of the Kita School, Akira Matsui, will offer a 2-hour workshop on noh singing, movement, and perhaps a demonstration piece for performance as well.
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Tanabata Festival
17 August 2019
Tatton Park, Cheshire
Tanabata, or the Star Festival, is typically held on the evening of 7 July throughout Japan, but the festival can be celebrated from June through to August. The festival traces its origins to a romantic legend that....
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Film
Third Thursday Lectures: Japanese Cinema At Home and Overseas 1950-1970
15 August 2019
Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
The 1950s was a period called ‘the golden age of Japanese films’. Japanese film-makers won a string of awards, starting with Kurosawa Akira’s Rashomon, which received the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, and followed by Mizoguchi Kenji’s successive prizes at Venice.....
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Sports
Cowes SailGP
10 & 11 August 2019
Cowes, Isle of Wight
The new SailGP is re-defining the sport of sailing. The racing takes place in some of the world's most iconic city waterfronts, ....
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Japanese Season of Culture at Chichester College
6 August 2019 - 24 July 2020
Chichester College campus, Chichester
Chichester College will hold several Japa related events throughout 2019 and 2020.
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Coventry Hiroshima Day 2019
6 August 2019
Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
On Tuesday 6th August at 5.30 for 6pm, there will be a service of reflection at Coventry Cathedral and Capel of Unity Coventry Cathedral to remember the dropping of the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
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Theatre & Music
Taiko Drumming Workshop
6 August 2019
Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
Coventry Lord Mayor’s Peace Committee for Peace & Reconciliation and Coventry Cathedral invite you to a Taiko Drumming Workshop run by Taikowest on Hiroshima Day on 6 August 2019.
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Theatre & Music
SCORED IN SILENCE
6 August 2019
Ditchling Museum, East Sussex
"Scored in Silence” is an intimate new solo digital performance artwork for 40 people that unpacks the untold tales of Deaf hibakusha – survivors of the A-Bombs that fell in Hiroshima in 1945.
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Pure Land Japanese Garden - lantern-lit evening garden
3 August - 29 September 2019
Pure Land Japanese Garden, Nottinghamshire
In the present day, the traditional Japanese lantern-lit evening garden is increasingly rare even within Japan, and Pure Land Japanese Garden is the only place in Europe where one may take part in this beautiful experience.
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Academia & Science
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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Academia & Science
Wavell Shoei Schools Summer Exchange Hosted by The University of Winchester
24 - 27 July 2019
University of Winchester, Hampshire
Summer Exchange Camp over 4 days with a variety of activities.
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Art & Design
The Chief, The Missionary, His Wife & Her Brother
13 July - 2 November 2019
Hertford Museum, Hertford
Discover the amazing family of the Hertford Museum founders and their fascinating lives amongst the Ainu, the indigenous people of Hokkaido, North Japan......
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Japanese Star Festival Tanabata
7 July 2019
The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath
We plan to hold a one-day Festival at The Museum of East Asian Art on Sunday 7 July 2019 to cerebrate Japanese Star festival, Tanabata.
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Art & Design
A Drunk Pandemic
5 - 21 July 2019
Victoria Station Tunnels, Manchester
Here at the invitation of Contact Young Curators, five emerging local artists brought together by MIF and Contact, Tokyo’s Chim↑Pom are building a temporary brewery underneath Manchester Victoria Station.
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Art & Design
Kaku Hayashi at International Ceramics Festival
5 - 7 July 2019
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
The Japan Foundation is proud to be supporting the appearance of Kaku Hiyashi at International Ceramics Festival. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1978, she quickly rose to become one of Japan's leading ceramicists.....
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Leicestershire Young Ambassador Japan Conference
3 July 2019
the University of Leicester
On Wednesday 3rd of July, Year 5 pupils from various schools in Leicestershire will take part in a day of sports and Japanese culture to celebrate the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. As part of the Leicestershire Young Ambassador Japan Conference,....
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Academia & Science
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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Academia & Science
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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Art & Design
Solo Exhibition by Nobuko Tsuchiya at Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019
22 June - 29 September 2019
The White Gallery, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
Nobuko Tsuchiya uses a variety of media to create imaginative sculptures that evoke an arresting narrative quality. Her work incorporates found household objects including mop buckets, table legs, rags and plastic tubing....
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Academia & Science
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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Academia & Science
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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Art & Design
Third Thursday Lecture: Manga at the British Museum
20 June 2019
Norwich Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
This talk gives a behind the scenes look at the creating of The Citi exhibition Manga マンガ (23 May to 26 August 2019) currently on display in the Sainsbury Exhibition Gallery at the British Museum. Manga is a visual form of narrative storytelling that employs the power of line to literally draw the reader into the story....
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Art & Design
Flower Shows and Japanese Dress Shows for the Purpose of International Artistic and Cultural Exchanges
16 June 2019
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead
“From seven years ago we have held a flower show twice a year and have opened a new workshop for the Japanese flower arrangement...
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Art & Design
YOKO ONO: LOOKING FOR… - SKY PIECES
15 June - 6 October 2019
The Heong Gallery, Cambridge
Demonstrating Yoko Ono’s use of the ‘sky’ since the early 1960s, the exhibition Sky Pieces will fill The Heong Gallery with pieces of the sky, featuring over thirty works, ...
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Theatre & Music
YOKO ONO: LOOKING FOR… - SKY PIECE TO JESUS CHRIST
15 June 2019
Howard Theatre, Cambridge
In Sky Piece To Jesus Christ (1965/2019), a group of musicians play a score, whilst another group of performers begin to wrap medical gauze around each member of the orchestra along with their instruments, as well as the conductor.
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Academia & Science
UK-Japan University Dialogue 2019
13 June 2019
University of Manchester
As the UK and Japan agree to forge a new strategic alliance, there are strong prospects for greater collaboration between the Japanese and UK higher education sectors....
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Academia & Science
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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Sakura Festival in Leeds VOL.3
8 June 2019
Leeds Kirkgate Market, Leeds
"We would like to introduce Japanese culture through stage performance, food, and culture experience booth especially by featuring ‘traditional side’ of Japan and ‘present-day’ or ‘modern side’ of Japan..."
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Theatre & Music
A Night of Music
25 May 2019
St Botolph’s Church, Colchester
The Colchester Military Wives Choir are being joined by The Amici Mixed choir from Okinawa, Japan and the Bao-Lai junior High School Chorus from Taiwan, for A Night of Music.
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Demolition Memorial Keepsake for LightNight 2019
17 May 2019
Performance Space, Bluecoat, Liverpool
Demolition Memorial Keepsake is a participatory project undertaken by Japanese artist anti-cool. A series of public workshops will explore memorial objects, funerals and ceremonies from different cultures. Inspired by Japanese cremation ceremonies, burning rituals will be held with local participants..
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Art & Design
Fujita Tsuguharu: a classical painter?
16 May 2019
Norwich Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
After being neglected by critics and historians for about half of a century, the work of Fujita Tsuguharu (Léonard Foujita, 1886-1968) is being rediscovered as suggest recent exhibitions in Tokyo and Paris. But points of view have changed as the importance of vanguardism in 20th century art history has receded into the background....
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Art & Design
Common Cause: John Ruskin, Japan & the Craft Tradition
15 May – 5 August 2019
Brantwood, home of John Ruskin
15th May 2019 JapaneseTea Ceremony & Presentation. Celebrating the friendship of Japan and Great Britain through the inspirational legacy of John Ruskin, the Urasenke Foundation will present and demonstrate the ancient Japanese art of tea. Brantwood Coach House.
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Academia & Science
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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Academia & Science
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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Academia & Science
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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Art & Design
Lifelines: the Woodcuts of Naoko Matsubara
16 April – 6 October 2019
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, Oxford
This exhibition celebrates the remarkable artistic career of Naoko Matsubara, a distinguished Japanese print artist based in Canada. 40 joyful woodcuts created over six decades demonstrate the remarkable innovation and variety of her work.
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Theatre & Music
Japanese Folk Music (minyo) Taster Workshop
13 April 2019
International Society, William Kay House,Manchester
A taster session where you will learn how to sing and play Japanese folk songs.....
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Theatre & Music
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra The sixth Europe Tour 2019
13 April 2019
Town Hall(Leeds)
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and Chief Conductor Pietari Inkinen are planning Europe tour in April 2019, which will be the first Europe tour in 13 years for JPO. It will be the first time for the orchestra to visit Finland, and other visits include cities in Germany, Austria, and the United Kingdom.
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Art & Design
Exhibition: Samurai : Ancient warriors of Japan
6 April - 13 July 2019
Buckinghamshire County Museum, Buckinghamshire
Exhibition of a private collection of historical Japanese arms and armour, from the 16th – 19th century, as well as some stunning modern swords by accredited high level swordsmiths.
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Hanami Festival & Hanami Experience
4th -28th April 2019
Brogdale Farm, the home of the National Fruit Collection, Kent
Brogdale will be hosting a day long festival of the blossom to encompass all things Japanese along with the chance for the public to picnic under the blossom throughout April 2019..
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Academia & Science
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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Theatre & Music
Hand in Hand
22 March 2019
Dance City, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Hand In Hand is choreographed by Chisato Minamimura and is produced by Nicole Vivien Watson of Surface Area Dance Theatre and Paul Miller of Rory Studio and supported by Moving Art Management.
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Art & Design
Third Thursday Lectures: Thinking about Late Hokusai
21 March2019
Norwich Cathedral Hostry, Norwich
“Our exhibition Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave, held at the British Museum and Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka in the summer and autumn of 2017, proposed that the older the artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) became, the more powerful and sublime was his art....
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Sports
UK Paralympic Performance Conference - Japanese culture session and reception (Invitation Only)
12 March - 13 March 2019
Hilton Manchester Deansgate, Manchester
This is a conference for coaches, practitioners, and national federation staff who will be attending 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games to be exposed to basic Japanese language, culture, and Sake. This is an invitaion only programme.
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Theatre & Music
“Falling Family “ contemporary dance performance
9 March 2019
Nothern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds
A double-bill of contemporary dance performance.Two rising female choreographers share personal stories of illness, love and loss in a moving and inspiring double bill.
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Academia & Science
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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Art & Design
Potters From Japan
2 March - 19 May 2019
Leach Pottery, Cornwall
Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada’s endeavours, in establishing the Leach Pottery nearly a century ago, cemented a lifelong friendship and strong bonds between subsequent potters and their communities in the UK and Japan....
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Cherry Trees for Schools
Until 28 February 2019
Cherry Trees for Schools, The Japan Society, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP
We are now inviting schools in the UK to apply to be part of the Sakura Cherry Tree Planting Project in the UK, a project to celebrate the friendship between Japan and the UK.
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Theatre & Music
“Falling Family “ contemporary dance performance
28 February 2019
DanceXchange, Birmingham
A double-bill of contemporary dance performance.Two rising female choreographers share personal stories of illness, love and loss in a moving and inspiring double bill.
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Academia & Science
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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Academia & Science
Seminar co-organized by JF/BAJS
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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Japan Now 2019
20 - 21 February 2019
Bath, Nottingham, Manchester, Cambridge, Norwich
Japan Now returns this February with a series of events around the UK celebrating the most exciting Japanese literature and culture...
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Academia & Science
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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Theatre & Music
Flight Paths
5 February - 5 March 2019 (See details for touring schedule.)
Various
Two of Britain’s leading theatre companies, Extant and Yellow Earth have joined forces to present an exciting new play called Flight Paths.
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Film
Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019
2 February - 28 March 2019
Various
Since 2004, the Japan Foundation, London has organised a Japanese film programme in close partnership with distinguished film venues and programme advisors in the UK.
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Business
Lecture and Demonstration of Japanese culinary culture
2 February 2019
University of Oxford
Lecture and demonstraion showcasing Japanese culinary culture and techniques.
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Business
JLGC Seminar 2019
"New Roads to Japan – Forging better business links through the Toyota-Derbyshire Partnership –"
1 February 2019
The Roundhouse, Derby College, Derby
This year’s JLGC(Japan Local Government Centre) seminar, as part of the recent 20th Anniversary of Toyota-Derbyshire Twinning activities, will focus on creating local business opportunities through international municipal twinning links.
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Business
University of Oxford Internships and Work Placements in Japan
Until December 2020
The Oxford Alumni Club of Japan is currently running a campaign to expand the number of intern host companies and organisations in Japan.
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Academia & Science
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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Art & Design
Masters of Japanese Prints: Life in the City
12 January – 12 May 2019
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
Featuring original woodblock prints from Bristol’s collection, this exhibition explores the sophisticated urban culture of Japan in the 18th and 19th centuries, from fashion and day trips to geisha and the kabuki theatre.
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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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