15 March 2007
Seminar
Fashion in Japan
After the USA, Japan is the second largest export market outside the EU for British fashion designers and companies. It is a highly competitive but generally very rewarding market.
Events category: Seminar
22 February 2007
Seminar
The Role of the Prime Minister in the UK and Japan
Within the space of a year, both the UK and Japan will have seen new prime ministers coming to power – and this has focused attention on their roles and influence in both countries.
18 January 2007
Seminar
Systems of Government in the UK and Japan
As the opening event in a year-long series, this seminar will set the scene and define the structures and systems of government in the UK and Japan.
15 July 2008
Seminar
Outside the Box - Japanese Contemporary Architecture
Inspired by the current exhibition at Daiwa Foundation Japan House, this seminar will explore the relationship between architecture, media and photography in the innovative contemporary architecture of Japan.
11 July 2008
Seminar
Japanese Gardens: Ancient and Modern
Japanese gardens featured strongly at the Chelsea Flower Show again this year. This seminar will look at the underlying themes that continue to make Japanese gardens so appealing, and how one designer in the UK, Maureen Busby, used Japanese aesthetics in creating stunning designs appropriate for our very different settings and architecture.
3 July 2008
Seminar
Artist in Residence - 20 years as an illustrator in Japan
John Shelley, an illustrator based in Japan for 20 years, returned to the UK this year. His talk covered his experience working in Japan as an illustrator and how the Japanese creative market differs from that in the UK.
2 October 2009
Seminar
Victorian Architecture in Meiji Japan
This lecture by the eminent architectural historian, Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki, explored the Victorian face of Meiji Japan through the work of Josiah Conder (1852-1920), a British architect invited by the Japanese government to teach at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1877.
9 July 2009
Seminar
Emerging from the Global Financial Crisis: Lessons from Japan
This seminar looked to the past and the future in assessing the key issues relating to financial crisis management; what can be learned from the Japanese experience and what may the future hold for Japan and the global economy.
3 May 2011
Challenges for Post-Crisis Japan
The 11 March earthquake and tsunami have produced a human tragedy, to which the Japanese have responded with stoicism. However, this is also an economic crisis, made more complicated by the damage done to the Fukushima nuclear complex and disruption to other east coast facilities, including nuclear and thermal plants.
6 February 2009
Seminar
Shun-kin: An International Co-production and Staging of Literature
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.