Upcoming Events
12/01/2026ONLINE EVENT - The Japan Society Book Club: Strange Pictures by Uketsu
Strange Pictures is a suspense-horror novel built around nine eerie drawings that serve as cryptic clues. It opens with a psychologist analysing a haunting child’s sketch, setting a framework for the book’s visual‑psychological puzzles.
19/01/2026Japan, Britain, and the Globalisation of the Samurai - with Oleg Benesch
In this lecture Oleg Benesch will explore how Britain and Japan became close allies in the early twentieth century, celebrating one another’s Middle Ages and leading to the globalisation of the idealised samurai image that has such an iconic status today.
31/01/2026New Year’s Calligraphy Workshop: Celebrating the Year of the Horse
Suitable even for complete beginners, in this workshop you will learn how Japanese characters were developed, discover different styles of writing, and be guided in the techniques for writing Japanese with a brush.






