6 February 2009
This seminar will reveal the lengthy collaborative process involved in the creation of Shun-kin and the contemporary significance and challenges faced in staging the Japanese modern classic by Jun-ichiro Tanizaki. The production of Shun-kin was supported with a UK-Japan 2008 grant from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
5 February 2009
Katsutoshi Yuasa with his fellow artist, Sara Lee gave a talk and a woodcut demonstration.
27 January 2009
This study examines how Japanese policy toward Middle East security issues is shaped by the need to both maintain Japan’s security alliance with the US and its oil relationship with states in the Middle East. Yukiko Miyagi introduces the historic roots of Japan’s policy, and then focuses on the major contemporary cases – the Iraq war, the Iranian nuclear crisis, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, to expose and explain how clashing interests and dilemmas were negotiated to arrive at policy outcomes.
21 January 2009
‘International Diplomacy Challenges for Britain and Japan’ was the first in the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’. Summary The Chair, Sir Graham Fry, British Ambassador to Japan from 2004-2008, opened proceedings by positing that the UK and Japan tend to have the same aims
4 December 2008
‘A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors’, published by Stone Bridge Press, was launched at the Foundation with a presentation by Alexander Jacoby, chaired by David Robinson.
27 November 2008
This lecture, based on Dr Robert Tierney’s article in Japan Forum, examined the early development of Japanese anthropology and its influence on colonial literature.
20 November 2008
At the start of the 1990s, Japan’s post war economic success came to an abrupt end and the country slid into a decade-long recession from which it has, on many levels, still not recovered.
18 November 2008
On 18 November at Chatham House, Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, gave a lecture entitled ‘Central banks and the public: the importance of communication’.
The lecture was in memory of Lord Roll of Ipsden, KCMG CB (1907-2005).
14 November 2008
Tetsuo Fujimoto discussed the exhibition with Lesley Millar (Professor of Textile Culture, University for the Creative Arts).
12 November 2008
The Private View was held to mark the opening of the exhibition.
27 October 2008
As the deterioration in global economic and financial conditions takes its toll, reflections on the past and concerns about the future continue to dominate national and international headlines.
17 October 2008
Kishio Suga discussed the exhibition with Simon Groom
