5th March 2009, 6.00pm - 8.00pm, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP

Booking essential: www.dajf.org.uk

As the first international conflict of the twentieth-century, the Russo-Japanese War attracted much contemporary global interest. This is the first full-length study to examine the war from the perspective of its impact on Japanese society, and sheds new light on its implications for modern Japan. What did the war mean to the Japanese people and how did they respond to it? Naoko Shimazu, author and Senior Lecturer in Japanese History, Birkbeck College, University of London, presents a fascinating and highly innovative account of the attitudes of ordinary Japanese people towards the war through a wide range of sources including personal diaries, letters, and contemporary images. The seminar will be chaired by

Stephen Large, former Reader in Modern Japanese History, University of Cambridge.

18th March 2009, 6.00pm - 8.00pm, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP

Booking essential: www.dajf.org.uk

This second seminar in the 2009 seminar series, Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan looks to North Asia and the territorial and maritime disputes that are the focus of diplomatic efforts in the region and beyond. Guest speakers include Professor Reinhard Drifte, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Politics at Newcastle University

and Dr Heonik Kwon, Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. The meeting will be chaired by freelance writer and broadcaster Dr Jim Hoare

1 April 2009, 6.30pm - 8.00pm, the Asian Music Centre, 1-2 Bradford Road, Acton London

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Dr Ayako Hotta-Lister has taught and performed in Japan, Britain and Hong Kong. She will introduce the ��koto�� and give a brief history with illustrations. There will be demonstrations on both traditional and contemporary koto composition and the art of singing. Members of the audience will also be invited to play the koto with her.

18 May 2009, 6.30pm, Embassy of Japan, 101-104 Piccadilly, London W1J 7JT

The last of three seminars in the JAPAN-UK 150 History Seminar series, looking at the process from trade friction to Japanese large-scale UK investment to the present-day global partnership.

This lecture will be led by Mr. Hideya Taida, former Executive Director of the Japan Foundation Centre for Global Partnership and Mr. Bill Emmott, former Editor of the Economist

Tel: 07931 812774; lesfleurs_london@yahoo.co.jp

www.lesfleurslondon.co.uk

Japanese flower arrangement course instructed by Keiko Yoshino, master of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana.

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