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6 July 2016

Edinburgh Festival 2016 - Japan related highlights

In this year’s Edinburgh Festival there are many acts that take you on a journey through Japan’s art, culture and sounds. See our 2016 highlights here.

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25 November 2015

Events

Talk at Warwick University: UK - Japan Relations in light of China's Ascendancy on 26 November

The Warwick University International Relations Society, in co-operation with the Warwick University Japan Society, are hosting a talk by Jason James, the Director General of the Daiwa-Anglo Japanese Foundation on 26 November from 6pm at H0.52 (Humanities Block), Warwick University. Come along for a greater insight into UK-East Asia affairs; all are welcome to attend! https://www.facebook.com/events/190205307987928/

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16 November 2015

Cultivating UK-Japan Research Collaboration through Sports, 18 December 2015 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

JSPS* London office will be co-sponsoring an event with the Japan Sport Council (JSC)** and Loughborough University on Friday 18th December 2015 from 13:00 until 17:35, followed by a reception until 19:00. The venue will be the new Loughborough University Campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.

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29 October 2015

Events

British Association of MEXT Scholars (BAMS) Christmas Talk, 11 December 2015

The British Association of MEXT Scholars (BAMS), presents its inaugural BAMS Christmas Talk, Japanese Diasporas followed by a drinks reception on Friday, 11 December, 6pm to 8:30pm at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 13-14 Cornwall Terrace, NW1 4QP.

There are more than three million Japanese people living abroad, yet relatively little is known about this diaspora. Where have people of Japanese descent (Nikkei) settled around the world? What might the Japanese

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26 October 2015

"Madam Butterfly Returns" at the Landor Theatre, Clapham, 4-22 November 2015

Madam Butterfly Returns is based on the story of Tomisaburo, the son of Cio-cio San and B. F. Pinkerton as told in the famous Puccini opera. This new work is set 35 years later, and brings together Japanese art forms with western Opera to tell the story of Madam Butterfly’s son who is on the search for his father.

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14 October 2015

Events

The Inaugural Daiwa Ichiban Lecture: Sir Paul Nurse on" Trust in Science"

The inaugural Daiwa Ichiban Lecture was held on Thursday 8^th October 2015, in collaboration with the British Embassy in Tokyo, at Ambassador Tim Hitchen’s Residence. Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society and a Nobel Prize laureate, spoke on the subject of “Trust in Science”. In his lecture, he stressed the enormous benefits that science has delivered to mankind, but argued that trust between scientists and the broader community is vital in maximising both the speed of scientific progress and its value to society.

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13 October 2015

UK – Japan Seminar on Disaster Risk Reduction at Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation on 23 October 2015

We have the pleasure to announce that the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University and the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), University College London will be holding a bilateral symposium on Friday, 23 October 2015 at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation to reflect and expand UK-Japan collaborative efforts on Disaster Risk Reduction. The participants will include leading researchers of the universities of Cambridge, Bristol and Oxford Brookes, as well as UCL and Tohoku.

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17 September 2015

Deconstructing Boundaries: Is 'East Asian Art History' possible?; 10 & 11 October at SOAS

The aim of this symposium is to give insight into the changing boundaries and concepts of ‘art’ in Japan and East Asia and to illuminate the exchanges and dialogues that took place among the artists of Japan and other East Asian nations.

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11 August 2015