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Considered a dystopian novel, The Memory Police focuses on an unknown, surreal setting of an unnamed island. With Orwellian themes such as rule by terror and state control.

Given that the pandemic is a truly global crisis, what has been notably missing so far has been concerted international co-operation to deal with its consequences whether for health or economies.

At the end of April, four months since reports began to reach us of a new coronavirus emerging in Wuhan, and with ‘normal’ life beginning to feel like a distant memory, commentators are focussing increasingly on the differing responses by national governments in handling the crisis.

The club is open to anyone who would like to improve their skills at speaking in Japanese or English and to learn techniques and tricks to expand their communication and presentation abilities.

Boro (more accurately ‘Boro boro’), meaning ‘rags or tatters’ is the art of repairing fabric using scraps and stitching.

As the UK seems set to enter an extension to the period of ‘lockdown’ and Japan has declared a state of emergency, we reflect on how the COVID-19 panic might lead to change in global economic systems and what recovery might look like.

This talk explores the interplay between memory and materiality, examining the process in which memory of the Northern Fujiwara clan became identified with the Nan’endo at Kofukuji temple.

Members are invited to join the second in our webinar series, when Japan Society chairman, Bill Emmott, will be joined in discussion by Yuko Kawai, General Manager for Europe for Bank of Japan and Leo Lewis, Tokyo Correspondent of the Financial Times.

Japan Society members are invited to join us for a special online event in which Japan Society chairman, Bill Emmott, is joined in discussion by two former Ambassadors to the UK and Japan, Koji Tsuruoka and David Warren.

The river is the Ganges, where a group of Japanese tourists converge, each wrestling with their own demons. In this novel, the renowned Japanese writer Shusaku Endo reaches his ultimate religious vision.