12 Oct 11
On Saturday 1st October the annual Collar Cup was held at the Buckinghamshire Golf Club in the presence of Ambassador Hayashi. The annual golf match between the Japan Society and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce featured 12 players on each side and was this year won by The Japan Society.
15 Jul 11
UK RELEASE DATE: 19 August 2011 With over twenty companies bidding for the film adaptation rights, and many of Japan’s top directors vying for the project, Lee Saing-li’s adaptation of Shuichi Yoshida’s award-winning novel Villain was one of the most hotly anticipated films of 2010. A critical hit at festivals both at home and abroad, [...]
10 Jun 11
Richard Hammond reveals the surprising engineering connections in Japan’s Bullet Train, the world’s first high-speed train. It could not run without ancient charioteers, a crowbar, a medieval clock, the electric telegraph, and a 19th-century luxury racing car.
3 May 11
The Short-Circuit Festival organization have kindly offered Japan Society members the chance to win on of 5 pairs of tickets to the Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto event.
24 Jan 11
The Japan Foundation have kindly offered Japan Society members the chance to win on of 3 pairs of tickets to a screening of one of the films in this year’s programme at your local venue.
11 Jan 11
Win free tickets to see ‘Confessions’ (Kokuhaku) by Tetsuya Nakashima (‘Kamikaze Girls’, ‘Memories of Matsuko’) at the ICA! Following the critical acclaim of his previous features, ‘Kamikaze Girls’ and ‘Memories Of Matsuko’, genre-busting auteur Tetsuya Nakashima returns with Confessions, a notably darker but equally absorbing and typically idiosyncratic work, this time adapted from the award [...]
3 Dec 10
The Commons & Lords, sponsored again by Fujitsu, kicked off the 2010/11 season with a match against one of our oldest Parliamentary rugby playing friends, an invitation XV from the Embassy of Japan and the Japan Society.
8 Oct 10
Congratulations to the Japan Society team for their victory in the Collar Cup on Saturday. After being defeated by a strong Japanese Chamber of Commerce team in 2009, The Japan Society regained the trophy with great match play at Buckinghamshire golf course. Michael Conaghan for the Japan Society was the top scorer for the day! [...]
8 Sep 10
Having recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, the Tokyo String Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall on Sunday 12th September 2010, boasting its remarkable complement of all-Stradivari instruments.
3 Jun 10
Date:1-30 June Venue: BFI Southbank, South Bank, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT Tickets: please visit www.bfi.org.uk/go/japansocietykurosawa In June, the BFI celebrates Akira Kurosawa’s centenary with a season of the great Japanese director’s finest films at BFI Southbank and the nationwide release of a new restoration of Oscar winner Rashomon. This hugely influential and visually stunning masterpiece, [...]
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