17 February 2011
Artist talk
Tokyo Story | Meet the Artist
British Artist Emily Allchurch was in conversation with Laura Noble, Writer and Director of Diemar Noble Gallery.
Events by year: 2011
15 February 2011
How Family Norms are Reinforced across Generations in Japan: The Case of Single Mothers and Their Parents
This lecture investigated the relationship between marriage and childbearing in contemporary Japan. Family studies in the industrialised world in the post-war period have come to see the dissociation of marriage and childbearing as a virtually unavoidable consequence of industrialisation, modernisation and the concurrent change in social mores. Yet there is one industrialised country where almost
4 February 2011
Private view
Echoes through Nature: Woodcuts by Katsutoshi Yuasa
A Private View was held to announce the first major solo exhibition in London by Katsutoshi Yuasa with an introduction by Chris Orr RA.
1 February 2011
Japanese Prints during the Edo Period
Japanese woodblock prints have long been appreciated in the West for their graphic qualities but their content has not always been fully understood. In recent years, publications by scholars in Japan, Europe and the United States have made possible a more subtle appreciation of the imagery encountered in them.
27 January 2011
Managing Public Debt and Social Challenges
This first seminar in the 2011 series, Uncertain Futures: The Individual, Society and the State in the UK and Japan, explored the challenges facing Britain and Japan as government spending reviews address fiscal deficits and seek to determine priorities for the future. As the opening event of the series, this seminar looked ahead to some of the themes to be covered during the year from healthcare and education provision to work and pension arrangements, opportunities for youth and the burden of ageing societies.
20 January 2011
Private view
Tokyo Story | Private View
Tokyo Story opened at Daiwa Foundation Japan House. Tim Clark gave some opening remarks.