20/04/2026ARCHIVED Reimagining Shrinking Communities: Rural Agency and Sustainability in Japan’s SDGs Future Cities
In this lecture, Marco Reggiani will explores how rural communities designated as SDGs Future Cities are using global sustainability ideas to craft new narratives of revitalisation.
16/03/2026ARCHIVED Reconsidering the Samurai - with Rosina Buckland
In this lecture, Rosina Buckland, Head of the Japanese Section at the British Museum, will explain the thinking behind the British Museum exhibition on the iconic global figure of the samurai.
16/02/2026ARCHIVED Human Rights in Japan: Why Does Change Lag Behind? - with Sanae Fujita
In this lecture, Sanae Fujita will examine the factors that have shaped Japan’s contemporary human rights landscape and the absence of effective institutional and educational frameworks to promote human rights awareness in Japanese society.
12/02/2026ARCHIVED 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 members once again.
19/01/2026ARCHIVED Japan, Britain, and the Globalisation of the Samurai - with Oleg Benesch
In this lecture Oleg Benesch will explore how Britain and Japan became close allies in the early twentieth century, celebrating one another’s Middle Ages and leading to the globalisation of the idealised samurai image that has such an iconic status today.