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03/04/2024ARCHIVED ONLINE EVENT - The Japan Society Film Club: Forever a Woman directed by Kinuyo Tanaka
For our film club in April we invite you to watch Forever a Woman, a touching woman's film directed by star Kinuyo Tanaka.
02/04/2024ARCHIVED Japanese Conversation Group
The Japanese Conversation Group provides a friendly and informal atmosphere for Japanese speakers of all nationalities to come together and speak Japanese. Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of every month.
25/03/2024ARCHIVED Katazome Dyeing Artists and the Mingei Movement in Post-war Japan
This lecture reviews the work of textile artists Samiro Yunoki (1922~2024) and Keisuke Serizawa (1895~1984) and their involvement with the Mingei movement.
13/03/2024ARCHIVED ONLINE EVENT - The Japan Society Book Club: The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto
Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family, but while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she's forgotten something important about her past.
11/03/2024ARCHIVED Lecture by Julia Longbottom CMG, British Ambassador to Japan
We are delighted to welcome the British Ambassador to Japan, Julia Longbottom CMG, to address the Japan Society after three years in post.
06/03/2024ARCHIVED ONLINE EVENT - The Japan Society Film Club: The Boy And The Heron directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Let's chat online about the latest masterpiece directed by Hayao Miyazaki! Please join us in March to discuss the wonderful animation film The Boy and the Heron.
05/03/2024ARCHIVED Japanese Conversation Group
The Japanese Conversation Group provides a friendly and informal atmosphere for Japanese speakers of all nationalities to come together and speak Japanese. Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of every month.
02/03/2024ARCHIVED The Japan Society Spring MiniFest
A free mini-festival of Japanese Culture for young people and their friends and families!
01/03/2024ARCHIVED The Japan Society Activities with Express Yourself 2024
We are pleased to be taking part in Express Yourself 2024 - an online event celebrating languages and cultures in North East England and its connections with the world.
19/02/2024ARCHIVED First Contact: The Earliest Scots in Japan (1613-1623)
In this lecture, Professor Ian Gow will discuss first contacts by Scots with Tokugawa Japan during the English East India Company period in Hirado (1613-23).