Online Book Launch - Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage

Seminar - Domestic AI in the UK and in Japan

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

Missing the Point: The Art of Translating Mishima Yukio

Deadline for Applications - The 17th Japanese Speech Contest for University Students

Astronauts as the Origin of Space Society

Seminar - Gene Technology and Climate Change

Keeping Ourselves Safe in Cyberspace with Mihoko Matsubara and Marcus Willett

Seminar - Between Man and Machine

Seminar - Soft Power Diplomacy in a Post-Covid Era

Online Seminar - AUKUS and Its Geopolitical Implications for Asia

Experience Japan Exhibition 2021 Online

JETAA and JSNW Lecture Series

The UK-Japan Relationship Amid a Troubled World: A Conversation with Ambassador Hayashi

Online Seminar - Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in Japan

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

Deadline for Applications - The 17th Japanese Speech Contest for University Students

UK-Japan Security Cooperation in a Historical Context: From Afghanistan to Afghanistan

Keiichiro Hirano in Live Conversation

Webinar - The US Withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Changing Global Power Balance

Kikuko Tsumura in Live Conversation

Seminar - Net Zero by 2050 in the UK and Japan

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Essays in Idleness and Hojoki by Kenko and Chomei

Webinar - And Now What? The Countdown to Japan’s General Election

Webinar - Health Systems During the Pandemic in the UK and Japan

Japan Foundation Local Project Support Programme - Online Seminar and Q&A Session

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: A Man by Keiichiro Hirano

The History of Sakai: in Conversation with Simon Kaner and Sakai City Museum

The Second "Course on the Application of ICT for Teachers - Learning ICT Through Practice"N

Funding for Japanese Language Education Projects held in the UK - September 2021 Applications OPEN

UK-Japan Student Conference

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

UCL-Japan Youth Challenge

Free introduction to Japanese conversation lesson with Mikiko Miyamoto

Japan & Liberty: In Conversation with Liberty Archivist Anna Buruma

JETAA and JSNW Lecture Series

Kobanashi Workshop for Educators – Sharing Teaching Practices and Learning

AI and the Ainu Language

[Online Talk] Rendering Culture & Conveying Nuance: How Translators Read Japanese Poetry

AI Research in Japan: Challenges at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project

[Online Talk] Women's Voices and Women's Verses

Online Summer Programme in Japanese Cultural Studies 2021, Science, Sport, and Sustainability: Towards an Interdisciplinary Future in Japanese Studies

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda

Nihongo Cup 2021 Finals Day

Britain, Japan and the World in between – A Conversation with Richard Needham and Philip Stephens

Is the West Back?: The G7 Summit and beyond, with Hiroyuki Akita and Gideon Rachman

セカンダリー日本語教師のためのワークショップ - Online Workshop for Secondary School Teachers: How do we equip our students with 21st century skills

Authority, Confidence and Gender in the Post-Pandemic World with Ian Robertson and Mary Ann Sieghart

Vaccines and Communication: the Global and Japanese Context

Japan's Response to COVID-19

SetoMonogatari and other stories: JET/MEXT influence on art and career7

Modern Human Society as seen by Primatologists

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn

Japanese politics and its challenges under the global pandemic

Tokachi Millenium Forest: a Radical Natural Vision

The Japanese Maps Collection of the University of Manchester Library: Digitalising a Mapped Society

Local Project Support Programme 2021-2022 Online Seminar and Q&A Session – Applications Open!

UK Japan Collaboration in Medical Research: Regenerative Medicine

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by Lady Sarashina

British Library Japan Season Event: 'Pico Iyer's Japan'

Suicide and the COVID-19 pandemic: Trends in Japan and around the world

Applications for the Japanese Local Project Support Programme 2021-2022 are open!

Japanese Disaster Narratives: Conservatism and Revisionism - with Christopher Hood

JAXA Series: Part 3 - The International Space Station & Space Exploration with Astronaut Yui Kimiya

Fake News and Social Media: Perspectives from The UK and Japan

The Independence Debate: What are the Future Prospects for Scotland?

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda

Women in Politics in the UK and Japan

Let’s learn “travel Japanese”! with Mikiko Miyamoto

US - China Relations and the Implications for Japan, with Yuka Koshino and Clyde Prestowitz

Net-Zero by 2050: UK and Japan Efforts to Address Climate Change

Women in Classical Japanese Literature

日本の桜を救ったイギリス人(Webinar in Japanese)

British and Japanese Charities Historically Compared

Online Lecture by Paul Madden CMG, British Ambassador to Japan

Poverty in the UK and Japan

How did Elizabeth Anderson learn Japanese in 1943? Wartime language courses & the race against time

BATJ-JF Spring Seminar Exploring and Reflecting on Classes in an Online Setting: How can we cultivate ICT literacy for teachers of Japanese?

World Speech Day Japan 2021 – bringing language learning out to the world

JLGC Seminar 2021 Housing policy in the UK and Japan -Homes Made for Everyone

Japan Society Book Club: Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima

The 16th Japanese Speech Contest for University Students - Finals Day

National Security Challenges Facing Japan and Europe in 2021

3/11 and Fukushima Dai-ichi 10 years on with Yoichi Funabashi and David Warren

ONLINE TALK - Visualising Numbers: Soroban as a tool for the maths classroom

10 years from the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

Postgraduate Workshop 2021

New COVID-19 Variants: The Race between Vaccines and the Virus

Third Thursday Lecture: Cultural Properties Recovered? 10 Years on from the Great East Japan Disaster

Science communication from Fukushima to COVID

JAXA Series: Part 2 – Space Transportation & Earth Observation Satellites

Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami

シャーロック・ホームズで読み解く英国 (Webinar in Japanese)

Japan Society Book Club: Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe

UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership: The View from Both Sides

The Brexit Agreement, One Month On, with David Henig and Pernille Rudlin

The Japan Affair: 40 years of engagement in UK - Japan relations: in conversation with David Howell

The Second Zoom Online Get-Together

Book launch - Pleasure in Profit

Japanese Pilgrimages: Experiences and Motivations behind Cultural, Spiritual and Religious Peregrinations from and to East Asia

The Path to Net Carbon Zero in the UK and Japan, with Naoko Ishii and Adair Turner

Book launch - Beyond Kawaii: Studying Japanese Femininities at Cambridge

British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1922 - with Antony Best

Japan Society Book Club: If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura

Third Thursday Lecture: Reflections on four decades of fascination with Japan

Nihongo Cup 2021 - Applications Open!

Responding to COVID-19: Prospects for UK-Japan Cooperation

No Laughing Matter. The Role of the Comedian in Japan – with Till Weingärtner

Japan Society Book Club: Breasts & Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

The Future for Higher Education in Japan and the UK with David Richardson and Yuko Takahashi

UK Free Trade Agreement -what does it mean? with Hiroshi Matsuura and Minako Morita-Jaeger

Sixth Form Japan Week 2020

The Shogun’s Silver Telescope

Business, Japan, and the World in Pink: a conversation with Lionel Barber

‘Visas for Life’: The Story of Sugihara Chiune

The New Global Order after the US Election

Book Launch: Health in Japan 1960-2020

Experience Japan Exhibition 2020

JAXA Series: Part 1 – Searching for the Origins of the Universe

“Course on the Application of ICT for Teachers - Learning ICT Literacy Through Practice” org

‘Singleness of purpose’: Sir Harry Parkes, British Minister to Japan, Korea and China, 1865-1885

Security and geopolitical consequences of the US election, with Nobukatsu Kanehara and John Scarlett

Japan Society Book Club: The Tale of Heike

The future of human-robot interaction

The US Election: Implications for International Trade

Kobanashi Workshop for Educators – Kobanashi Performance Instruction Methods to Teach Japanese Language Learners

Global collaboration against the pandemic

Book Launch-Ishikawa Sanshir?’s Geographical Imagination

The Future of Democracy in the USA with David Runciman and Hitoshi Tanaka

ONLINE LECTURE - 70 years in Japan’s Postwar History: Individual Memories, Collective Experiences

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Japan’s Far More Female Future, with Kathy Matsui and Bill Emmott

US Election: the Implications for Asia Policy

Japan Society Book Club: The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata

ONLINE TALK - Zaido: Documenting a 1,300 year old ceremony

Sayaka Murata Exclusive Recorded Interview at Cheltenham Literature Festival + LIVE Q&A

Japan After Abe

Reporting the world in Japan and the UK, with Aiko Doden and John Simpson

The Politics of Governmental Reform in Japan and the UK, with Bronwen Maddox and Koji Tsuruoka

The 16th Japanese Speech Contest for University Students

The State of the Economy in Japan and the UK, with Noriko Hama and Gerard Lyons

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: The Frolic of the Beast by Yukio Mishima

UK-Japan Student Conference

Japan Literatures of Remembering. A Panel Discussion on Fiction, Poetry and Anime

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: No-no Boy by John Okada

75 years on: A survivor of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb

Japan's Regional Role: How Tokyo is Pressing its Interests in Asia

The Pandemic and its Impact on Gender Equality in Japan and the UK

The UK-Japan Relationship: Security and Political Cooperation

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: The Little House by Kyoko Nakajima

Nihongo Cup 2020

Online Event: Japan, UK and the US: Our Relationship with our Closest Allies with Kim Darroch and Kenichiro Sasae

Travel Books and Travelling Books: How the West Met the East in the History of the Book

How Do They Read? Voices and Practices of Japanese Literature Translators

Ninja: Their Philosophies and Duties - A Talk by Prof Yuji Yamada

ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: A Cat, a Man, and Two Women by Junichiro Tanizaki

Pico Iyer on Japan

Engelbert Kaempfer: Observer and Collector in 17th-century Japan

Online Lecture: The intimacy of minor sounds: an anthropologist’s journey into the private, insular worlds of amateur music in Tokyo

A CONVERSATION WITH JAY RUBIN

What We Know Now: Medical Science and the Response to COVID-19 with Kiyoshi Kurokawa and Peter Piot

WEBINAR - International Responsibilities and the Pandemic with Mark Malloch-Brown and Mami Mizutori

Samurai: History and Legend

Postponed

Japan Information Day: Education & Research Opportunities

Webinar: Soft power in the era of the pandemic - challenges and possibilities

WEBINAR - Covid-19: The Political Economy of the Pandemic with Robert Feldman and Robert Ward

Performing Memory: Artistic Production and Religious Practice at the Kofukuji Nan’endo – with Yen-Yi Chan

Postponed

WEBINAR – Covid-19: Policy, Financial Markets and Business with Yuko Kawai and Leo Lewis

In Ghostly Japan

WEBINAR – Governments, covid-19 and the public response in the UK and Japan

Soroban Workshop – Soroban and its benefits (*Online workshop)

Cancelled

A Real Fukushima – describing the nine-year journey

A CONVERSATION WITH MORGAN GILES

Postponed until 31 March

Talk & Panel Discussion: Japan’s Role in Building Global Peace, Stability and Prosperity

Cancelled

No Laughing Matter. Matayoshi Naoki’s Success as a Comedian and Novelist – with Till Weingärtner

Cancelled

MEXT scholarship predeparture orientation and reception

JLGC Seminar 2020: Social Care in the UK and Japan – Perspectives on Dementia and Support –

History Lecture: The Lady Samurai

History Lecture: The Secrets of Japanese Mathematics

Chiori: Talk by Alex Kerr

Lecture by Paul Madden CMG, British Ambassador to Japan

Crisis thinking in regional Japan – the case study of Kamaishi City

The 15th Japanese Speech Contest for University Students

Society 5.0 - A new model for an ageing society? A Talk by Professor Harayama Yuko

JAPAN AND BRITAIN: ISLES OF INNOVATION

Love and Whisky - The story of Rita Cowan and Masataka Taketsuru

Japan Now

New A-Level Workshop! "Motto Yomu CHIKARA Workshop" Part 2 - Material Development

Fathoming Fragility and Seeking Stability: Understanding Prime Ministerial Leadership in the 21st Century

The Siberian Captivity of Japanese Soldiers and the Transnational History of War and Empire, 1945-1956 - with Sherzod Muminov

Japan Foundation/BAJS Postgraduate Japanese Studies Workshop

Whose right to life? The ethics of suicide prevention in the UK and Japan

Japanese After-school Clubs at Chiddingstone Castle

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro – an international conference

The University as a Platform for Social Change – Prof. Makoto Gonokami, President, University of Tokyo

Book launch: The Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds

Burakumin and Human Rights – with Ian Neary

Third Thursday Lectures: Mount Fuji: Changing Landscapes in Japanese History

Japanese Online Course for Teachers

Introduction to Data and Resources Available at Statistics Bureau Japan

Third Thursday Lectures: Japan’s First Economic Miracle: Coins and Trade in Twelfth Century East Asia

Nature Symposium: Neutrino Physics, Past, Present, and Future

Neutrino Physics & the Future: Talk by Nobel Laureate Prof Kajita Takaaki

Colin Alexander McVean, a Scottish engineer in early Meiji Japan – with Colin Houston

RENKEI researcher workshop on Climate Change

How Japan sees China

Experience Japan Exhibition 2019

Why does Japan still use ‘orphanages’ rather than family-based foster care and adoption? – with Michael Rivera King

Japan Foundation at the Language Show London 2019

National Memories and Norms in International Politics in East Asia

The Technology Revolution in Education

Japanese in Britain – Wasurena-gusa Oral Histories

Sixth Form Japan Day 2019

JANET FORUM 2019 "Demographic Change and Higher Education in the Global Context"

Go! Gender Go! Japan: Media Narratives of Identity

Japan Room Lecture: Nazani Tea Time from Ancient Greece to Mugicha

The Challenge of Migration in the UK and Japan

Skilled Migration: Solving Japan’s demographic crisis?

Oral Histories: Wasurena-gusa Project Film Screening

International conference ‘Okinawan Art in its Regional Context: Historical Overview and Contemporary Practice’

Archaeology of the Fut

Over Here, Over There

Space Exploration – the Future of Human Progress?

Henry Dyer Memorial Event

Third Thursday Lectures: Book Launch: East Asian Art History in a Transnational Context

Re-Inventing Modernity: Franco-Scottish Encounters With Japan

The Art of Culinary Diplomacy in the Mid-19th Century. Britain and Japan at the Table

Plea Bargains – Japan’s approach to corporate crime, similar to DPAs?

Cardiff University Japanese Education Seminar

What is Manga?

International comparison and collaboration in medical sociology: Research initiatives, challenges, and future prospectsI

Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowship 2019

Manga Speaks Japanese!

Cancelled

Japan's Economic Diplomacy

Flintshire Optec Japanese Youth Exchange Trust

Wavell Shoei Schools Summer Exchange Hosted by The University of Winchester

Carmen Blacker Lecture 2019: Dragon Bones, Sacred Pillars and Holy Tombs: Some Archaeological Observations on Traditional Japanese Religion – with Professor Simon Kaner

Japan Youth Challenge 2019

JET programme predeparture orientation and reception

The role of design in a new digital era

Japan Orientation臀・E障n introduction to the study of Japan and its place in the world

The spread of hate speech

Europe Goes to Tokyo

Nihongo Cup 2019

Seminar: Depicting the future of AI through Art

Digital technology as a bridge between art and society

Europe Goes to Tokyo

Family Firms as Institutions: Cultural reproduction and status maintenance among multicentenary shinise in Kyoto

UK-Japan University Dialogue 2019

York-Tohoku-Kaiserslautern Research Symposium on "New-Concept Spintronic Devices"

JSPS-Crick Symposium on Gut Tissue Circuits

Pump It Up!

Reiwa – a new era in Japan

Japan Room Lecture: A Glimpse into East-West Relations in the Antiquarian Book Trade

The Emperor System in Japan. Origins, Evolution and the New Imperial Era – with William Horsley

Japan Information Day: Education & Research Opportunities

Hikikomori in Japan and the UK

Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’: A Two-Day International Conference to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration

Modern Japan in the Comparative Imagination

Tokyo 2020 and Japan’s Soft Power

The Rise of Populism and Japan

Talk: Colours, Clothing and the Seasons in The Tale of Genji: A Talk by Dr Jennifer GUEST

Shinkansen and the Tokyo Olympics

Third Thursday Lectures: Tattoos, homesickness and adventure: British royals in Japan and Japanese royals in Britain in the 19th century

Book Launch: The Ghost of Namamugi

“Like Bombs”: Narrative, Memory, and Linguistic Terrorism in Contemporary Okinawan Fiction – with Vicky Young

Fukushima Hamadori HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMY 2019

What Brexit Means for Japan

Book Launch: The Englishman who saved the Japanese cherry

Seminar: Sustainable Development Goals: Japanese and UK approaches

MEXT scholarship predeparture orientation and reception

Can a ‘Religion’ Be Translated as ‘Culture’? Tenriky?’s Cultural Activities in Its Propagation in France – with Masato Kato

Seminar: Foreign Refugee Flows into Japan: Asylum Seekers’ Circuitous Path

Cardiff, Wales – Sakai City, Fukui, Japan school exchange programme

Seminar: Prevention of Recidivism: Trends in Japanese Criminal Policy

Japan and the Future of the Liberal International Order

JF/BAJS Japanese Studies Postgraduate Workshop 2019 : Career Progression

Japan-UK infectious disease symposium

The 14th Japanese Speech Contest for University Students

Japan UK Technology and Humanity in Education 2019

Lecture on Fukushima

Japan Foundation and British Association for Teachers of Japanese Seminar

Talk: Re-imagining Akutagawa

Author Talk: Kyoko Nakajima

Sake Symposium: Understanding the Unique Aspects of Sake

Translating Yukio Mishima’s The Frolic of the Beasts – with Andrew Clare

International symposium: Japan in the World and the World in Japan: A Methodological Approach

Starting new joint Research funded by UKRI-JSPS

Dartford Grammar School and Japan Foundation GCSE and IB Meeting

Shogi Lecture & Workshop

Talk: Portland Japanese Garden: An American Interpretation of a Japanese Artform

The Importance of Cultural Diversity. A long-term comparative perspective between prehistoric Japan and Britain – with Junzo Uchiyama

Avant-Garde Calligraphy between Postwar Japan, Europe, and the United States

The Arrival of Tango in Japan: Allure, Fear, and Morality in Early Twentieth-Century Japan – with Yuiko Asaba

‘Port Towns & Diplomacy: Japanese naval visits to Britain and Australia in the early 20th century’

The Fukushima Accident & Its Aftermath

Approaching a new nuclear threat age - what can we learn from Hiroshima?

New approaches to security: Does Japan have other options than the US?

The Arrival of Belief at the Extremities of the Silk Roads: Recent work on the archaeology of the interface between incoming and local religions in Eurasia 400 – 1000 AD

Imamura Shohei: How to Win Fans and Influence People in the Postwar Japanese Studio System – with Jennifer Coates

Talk: Looking Back in Time at the Shikoku Pilgrimage

Third Thursday Lecture: A Pair of Scroll Paintings: the Triple Images of Yosa Buson’s “Kite and Crows”

Japan Room Lecture: The Curious Case Of Japan Leads To Deep Revelations About Money

Talk: The Forgotten War 1914-18

New approaches to addressing climate change in the UK and Japan

Third Thursday Lecture: The Prism of Youth: Life Writing by Japanese Children and Teenagers during WWII

Beyond Fukushima: capturing untold stories of nuclear disasters

Health and Care Systems in the Era of Super Ageing

Author's Talk: Sayaka Murata

Author's Talk: Genki Kawamura

New Approaches to Ainu Contemporary Art

Images with and without Texts: The Photographic Magazine in 1930s Japan – with Jelena Stojkovi?

Archives and secret papers: uncovering hidden truth
Drinks reception

BAJS 2018 Conference: Crisis? What Crisis? Continuity, and Change in Japan

Political Leadership and Policy-Making Processes under the Abe Administration: What has gone wrong?

Tiny Objects can tell the Truth. British Influence on the Birth of Japanese Archaeology – with Tomoaki Nakano

Public Symposium: Our Life in an Ageing Society - How the young generation solves various problems associated with ageing

Japanese Artists in London

150 Year Anniversary of Meiji Restoration

Talk: Zen Buddhism

Carmen Blacker Lecture in conjunction with the Third Thursday Lectures: Thinking for Oneself:Individuality in Early Modern Japan, with some memories of Carmen Blacker

Talk:Kokeshi from Tohoku with Love

Carmen Blacker Lecture 2018: Thinking for Oneself. Individuality in Early Modern Japan, with some memories of Carmen Blacker – Prof Peter Nosco

The Influence of Japanese Architecture – Royal Academy Architecture Awards Week

Talk: The Power of Calligraphy