Naviar Haiku Fest IV
Naviar Haiku Fest is a day event of workshops, music contests, and live performances, which aims to explore the intersection…
Sumi-E: Japanese Brush Painting, Part 2
Tutor: Takumasa Ono Improve your Sumi-e techniques and deepen your spiritual understanding through exercises to develop the learning in Part…
A Reading Performance of Pearl and Dagger at The Other Palace
Pearl and Dagger is a new musical inspired by the Japanese folktale, A Story of Oki Island, which can originally be found…
Experience Japan Exhibition 2019
Experience Japan Exhibition will be back in London this November for the 9th year, bringing information on the growing range of…
Call for Dreams + Q&A
The UK Jewish Film Festival 2019, our 23rd edition, runs from 6 to 21 November at 12 cinemas across London.…
Why does Japan still use ‘orphanages’ rather than family-based foster care and adoption?
In contemporary Japan, approximately 85 per cent of children in alternative care are placed in large institutions. This contrasts with…
Since World War 2, East Asia has experienced dramatic and complex political and economic transformations. Problems associated with emotions, memories, and narratives of the past – particularly those relating…
Imaginary Solutions is a new collaboration between the Tokyo-based Butoh dancer and martial artist Takahiro Tomatsu, and the acclaimed London-based experimental music ensemble ARCO, led by composer/performer Neil Luck. The…
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Japan Sings! – Japanese musicals at 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…
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Sumi-E: Japanese Brush Painting, Part 2
Tutor: Takumasa Ono Improve your Sumi-e techniques and deepen your spiritual understanding through exercises to develop the learning in Part 1…
Experience Japan Exhibition 2019
Experience Japan Exhibition will be back in London this November for the 9th year, bringing information on the growing range of exciting…
Japanese Ink Painting Course – Ink Landscapes
Learn the foundation of how to paint traditional Japanese ink landscape, known as paintings of ‘mountains and water’. This mixed level…
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In contemporary Japan, approximately 85 per cent of children in alternative care are placed in large institutions. This contrasts with…
Since World War 2, East Asia has experienced dramatic and complex political and economic transformations. Problems associated with emotions, memories,…
Following concert-lectures on 24 and 25 October, these workshops by Tenri University Gagaku Music Society present a rare opportunity for…
Japan Room Lecture: Nazani Tea Time from Ancient Greece to Mugicha
Author Talk with Kanako Nishi
An Introduction to Japanese Kagura by Professor Terence Lancashire
The Art of Culinary Diplomacy in the Mid-19th Century. Britain and Japan at the Table
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Call for Dreams + Q&A
The UK Jewish Film Festival 2019, our 23rd edition, runs from 6 to 21 November at 12 cinemas across London. We then screen highlights on tour in 15-20 cities across the UK until 12 December. The UK Jewish Film…
Japan Sings! – Japanese musicals at 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. This is a rare chance for UK based audiences to see these…
Screening of Singing Lovebirds (1939)
The Japan Foundation is delighted to partner with the BFI in presenting Singing Lovebirds as part of the Musicals! The Greatest Show on Screen season. This pre-war produced warm-hearted musical about the tangled love lives of a samurai is a very rare treat. Catch it…
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‘I hope food can boost inter-Korean relations’
Bibimbap mixed rice with meat, and some greens with an eobok jaengban (어복쟁반) boiled meat platter. ’ These are the menu items that Director Yoon…
