Upcoming Events

Onigirazu is a modern take on Japanese rice balls or onigiri. Instead of the usual triangle, it is shaped into a flat rectangle, almost like a sandwich. Wrapped in nori seaweed and easily adaptable to whatever filling takes your fancy, onigirazu is easy to make and is perfect for picnics in the spring and summer seasons.  

For the Film Club in May we invite you to watch the confronting and haunting film The Ballad of Narayama directed by Shohei Imamura in 1983.

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography written by an anonymous writer known only as Lady Sarashina, born in AD 1008.

Boro (more accurately ‘Boro boro’), meaning ‘rags or tatters’ is the art of repairing fabric using scraps and stitching. In this online workshop suitable for beginners participants will learn how to repair a garment using scraps, both modern and vintage and how to use sashiko stitching to enhance your work.

Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn is a collection of 28 stories inspired by Japanese folk tales. The stories span a wide range of genres, from fantastical ghost stories to love stories with a twist.

We are delighted to announce that with the easing of restrictions on Golf and other outdoor sports, The Japan Society’s Annual Golf Tournament, for the Asprey and Garrard Plate, will go ahead as planned this year. The Tournament will be held at Essendon Country Club. The format will be Stableford.

Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of traditional ghost stories by one of Japan’s most exciting writers.

Published in 2017, Pachinko, the second novel by Korean-American author Min Jin Lee, is an epic historical novel following a Korean family who eventually immigrates to Japan.

Keiichiro Hirano’s A Man has all the trappings of a gripping detective story: a bereaved wife, a dead man whose name belongs to someone else, mysterious coded letters, a lawyer intent on uncovering the truth.

Written by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, these two works on life's fleeting pleasures each show a different world-view.