08/01/2023ARCHIVED New Year’s Calligraphy Workshop
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. You will come away with your own piece of calligraphy – a positive word encapsulating hopes for 2023. This is a wonderful opportunity to try this quintessential Japanese art led by a professional calligrapher.
04/01/2023ARCHIVED ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Film Club: The Funeral directed by Juzo Itami
Join us on 4 January for the first Film Club of the year to discuss Juzo Itami's award winning comedy, The Funeral.
12/12/2022ARCHIVED IN-PERSON EVENT - Japan Society Book Club: Beautiful Star by Yukio Mishima
Translated into English for the first time, Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was the novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece.
11/12/2022ARCHIVED Make Your Own Japanese New Year Card
In this workshop, artist Aya Burbanks will show participants a selection of her original designs, featuring typical motifs used in Nengajo. She will then teach you the techniques of boku-ga (ink wash painting) before you create your own new year card to mark the start of 2023, the year of the rabbit.
07/12/2022ARCHIVED ONLINE EVENT - Japan Society Film Club: One Cut of the Dead
Join us on 7 December for our Film Club to discuss about One Cut of the Dead directed by Shinichiro Ueda.
06/12/2022ARCHIVED 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.
05/12/2022ARCHIVED Japan Society Christmas Party 2022
This year’s Christmas Party will once again be held in the Ballroom of the Japanese Embassy, by courtesy of The Ambassador. We hope that many members will join us for this festive occasion and to catch up with friends.
30/11/2022ARCHIVED Bilingual Public Speaking ClubARCHIVED バイリンガル・パブリックスピーキングクラブ
The club is open to anyone who would like to improve their skills at speaking in public in Japanese or English and to learn techniques and tricks to expand their communication and presentation abilities.
日本語もしくは英語でのパブリックスピーキングのスキルを伸ばしたい方であればどなたでも対象となり、コミュニケーションやプレゼンスキルを改善するための方法やコツを学ぶことができるイベントです。
30/11/2022ARCHIVED The Future of Corporate Alliances between Japan and Europe, with Jean Barthélemy and Philippe Riès
Four years since the arrest in Tokyo of Carlos Ghosn, then chairman of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi Motors, Bill Emmott is joined by Jean Barthélemy and Philippe Riès to consider the repercussions of this extraordinary event and particularly how attitudes to cross border corporate alliances have changed.
24/11/2022ARCHIVED Making tradition relatable: Kutani Ware in the Modern Era
Japan has had an exceptionally long and successful history of ceramic production and kutani ware, which originates from Ishikawa in the north-western region of Hokuriku, is one of the oldest forms of Japanese porcelain. In the second of our talks by artists from Ishikawa Prefecture, we welcome Keigo Kamide, a sixth-generation ceramicist of Kutani Choemon, a kiln that has been producing Kutani ware for over 130 years.