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Still celebrating Nadeshiko Japan's Football World Cup victory, we include some sporting challenges in this edition with Japan's Triathletes competing in a London 2012 practice event and Captain Bill Kawai-Calderhead's Fukushima 100 mile challenge. Also in August, the Embassy hosts a photographic exhibition Vibrant Africa and screens the film Haru, Japan features prominently at this year's Edinburgh International Festival and Japanese artists are featured in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. We interview Oscar-winner Emi Wada and report on Ambassador Hayashi's visit to Tatton Park and the Japan Self-Defence Forces Day Reception at the Embassy. This summer we wave off 195 new JET participants and we also bid a fond farewell to JICC Director Ken Okaniwa, who is leaving this month for a post in South Africa. |
Spotlight on.. 'The Bow Tie Man' Minister Ken Okaniwa has been Director of the Japan Information and Culture Centre since December 2008. He will be departing in August to take up a position at the Embassy of Japan in Pretoria, South Africa. |
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 Films at the Embassy: Haru 31 August, The Embassy of Japan Director Morita Yoshimitsu skillfully shows us that a computerised society has not destroyed human love...more |
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Japan at the Edinburgh International Festival A performance of Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Hiroshi Sugimoto's Lightning Fields and Photogenic Drawings...more |
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THE FUKUSHIMA 100 MILE CHALLENGE: One Man, One Cause, One Day! 10-11 August 2011, London Bill Kawai-Calderhead will run 100 miles around London in 24 hours...more |
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Oscar-winner Emi Wada to visit UK "My work takes me all over the world, but the basis of my designs is Japanese, particularly my native Kyoto"...more |
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Tatton Park's Japanese Garden celebrates 100th Anniversary Ambassador Hayashi planted a tree to mark the occassion...more |
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JET-ing off to Japan |
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Embassy hosts the Japan Self-Defence Forces Day Reception "I would certainly hope to see morevigorous interaction and cooperation between our two countries"...more |
