Japan Research Centre
The events draw a varied audience with an interest in the region.
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.
Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For further information contact the Centres and Programmes Office.
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2013
January
09/01/13
- Growing Up in a World at War: Personal Documents by Children and Adolescents in Wartime Japan
Aaron Moore (University of Manchester)
16/01/13
- The Department Store, the Mannequin Girl, and the Politics of the Gaze in 1930s Japan
Irena Hayter (University of Leeds)
23/01/13
- A Forgotten Buddhist Astronomy: History of "Bonreki" Movement in 19th Century Japan
Professor Masahiko Okada (Tenri University)
30/01/13
- Japanese Literature after March 11th : first approaches
Anne Bayard-Sakai
February
06/02/13
- Cross-dressing as Lady Murasaki: Tokugawa vernacular translations of classical Japanese texts
Rebekah Clements (University of Cambridge)
20/02/13
- Unfitting Parts: the Moral, Political, and Informal Economies of Japanese Organ Transplants
Alessia Costa (2012-13 Tsuda Bursary Recipient)
27/02/13
- Morito Tatsuo’s “Bunka Kokka-ron”: The State, the Citizen, and Democratic Culture in Early Postwar Japan
Peter Siegenthaler (Robert & Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
March
06/03/13
- 'Creating a 'Usable Past' - Japanese Television Drama and the Memory of the Second World War
Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS)
13/03/13
- Prewar revolutionary culture and the Fukushima Catastrophe
Norma Field (University of Chicago, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita)
20/03/13
April
19/04/13
- Wakosho: An Overview of Early Japanese books from the Tenri Central Library
Professor Hideo Yamanaka (Tenri University)
30/04/13
- The Fascination of Japanese Traditional Books
Professor Tadayoshi Ohashi (Vice President of Tenri University)
May
02/05/13
- Sake Tasting
Several types of Japanese Sake tasting with Japanese music AFTER FIVE, which encourage book enthusiast and non-book enthusiasts to come and have a look at the new exhibition at Brunei Gallery.
08/05/13
- Text and Image in Japanese Books
This workshop will focus on examining the relationship between text and image in a variety of Japanese genres. The workshop is in conjunction with the SOAS exhibition of ‘1000 Years of the Art of Japanese Books’ from the Tenri Library.
09/05/13
- Calligraphy
Nobu Takeuchi and others
Nobu Takeuchi and others present your name in Japanese. If you wish, why not have a go and learn how to do it yourself.
10/05/13
- Grammar of Mimetics
Mimetic or “sound-symbolic” words in Japanese (giongo/giseigo/gitaigo) constitute a significant lexical category.
18/05/13
- Gagaku and Japanese Tea ceremony
Dr Hughes (SOAS), Mr Shimizu (Tenri University) and Master Mineko Miura
Gagaku - Dr Hughes (SOAS) and Mr Shimizu, the head of Tenri cultural centre in Koln present Gagaku, the oldest surviving orchestra in the world.
Japanese tea ceremony – Enshuryu School presented by Master Mineko Miura from Holland.
23/05/13
- The Jesuit Mission Press in Early Modern Japan
Professor Ikuo Higashibaba (Tenri University)
June
08/06/13
- Origami
Mr Masa Takeuchi
Mr Masa Takeuchi, Central St. Martin graduate, presents the art of Origami
13/06/13
- Origami
Mr Masa Takeuchi
Mr Masa Takeuchi, Central St. Martin graduate, presents the art of Origami
15/06/13
- Calligraphy
Nobu Takeuchi and others
Nobu Takeuchi and others present your name in Japanese. If you wish, why not have a go and learn how to do it yourself.
20/06/13
- Origami and Calligraphy
Nobu Takeuchi and Masa Takeuchi
Nobu Takeuchi and others present your name in Japanese. If you wish, why not have a go and learn how to do it yourself.
July
October
02/10/13
- TBC
Sharalyn Orbaugh
