Upcoming Events

Discover Noh’s haunting music, poetic texts and subtly powerful movement in a workshop. Get a taste of Noh in a short, stripped-back performance alongside Opera North's artists. A collaboration between Noh Reimagined (Mu Arts), University of Leeds, DARE and Opera North.

Six courses. One conversation between Peru & Japan. For WORLD SAKE DAY. Join a special Nikkei-inspired evening at LIMA, created in collaboration with Anza Asahara, Sake Sommelier, exploring the connection between our cuisine and the world of sake.

Discover Noh’s haunting music, poetic texts and subtly powerful movement in a workshop. Get a taste of Noh in a short, stripped-back performance alongside Opera North's artists. A collaboration between Noh Reimagined (Mu Arts), University of Leeds, DARE and Opera North.

On Sunday 4 October 2026 Ura Matsuri is venturing out to Oxford after their very successful tour to Leeds, Domino Club, with the usual vibrant line up of story telling, music, dancing and unknown! At the Old Fire Station in Oxford, OX1 2AQ - Doors open 7pm; Live performance from 7:30 pm.

Screening at Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford as part of UK Tour October – November 2026, musician and filmmaker Hugo Max will accompany this masterpiece of silent cinema with live soundtracks on solo viola. Teinosuke Kinugasa’s silent 1926 avant-garde film employs dazzling, expressionistic visuals to explore the fractured reality inside a Japanese asylum.

This October, the Japan Foundation will welcome acclaimed Japanese mystery writer Akane Araki to the UK for the first time to celebrate the English publication of her debut novel, Murder at the End of the World. The novel won the prestigious Edogawa Rampo Prize, Japan's leading award for unpublished crime fiction. During her UK tour from 10-14 October, Araki will appear at events in Manchester, Cheltenham, Sheffield, Cambridge and London.

Screening at Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle as part of UK Tour October – November 2026, musician and filmmaker Hugo Max will accompany this masterpiece of silent cinema with live soundtracks on solo viola. Teinosuke Kinugasa’s silent 1926 avant-garde film employs dazzling, expressionistic visuals to explore the fractured reality inside a Japanese asylum.

Keiko Uchida presents THE GREAT INHERITANCE, an exhibition of new work by the renowned Mashiko potters Tomoo Hamada and Kan Matsuzaki. Both will join Keiko Uchida in London for the launch of the exhibition, and will be taking part in a programme of events, offering the chance for collectors, guests and enthusiasts to meet the artists and share in conversations, gatherings and a talk show.

Kotatsu Animation Festival returns for its 15th anniversary, offering Welsh audiences a rich selection of Japanese animation. Highlights include classics such as Akira and Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, alongside modern favourites Children of the Sea and All You Need is Kill. The programme also features an exclusive talk by CGI animator Masaya Inaba on the use of CGI in anime. To mark puppeteer Kihachirou Kawamoto's 101st birthday, the festival will screen Dōjōji, a rarely seen stop-motion film making a rare UK appearance.

Award-winning Japanese author Nao-cola Yamazaki will tour the UK this October to celebrate the recent English translations of their bestselling novels Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives and Beautiful Distance. Widely regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Japanese literature, Yamazaki is known for their thoughtful exploration of identity, relationships and individuality. Yamazaki will appear at events in Cheltenham, Manchester, London, Oxford, Bristol and Sheffield.