The Japan Society

Upcoming Events

08/06/2026IN-PERSON EVENT - The Japan Society Book Club: Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami

08/06/2026

In Sisters in Yellow, Hana, now in her forties, reflects on her youth in Tokyo’s “Yellow House” during the 1990s.

15/06/2026Exploring Visual Counterculture in Japan - with Marco Bohr

15/06/2026

Join us for a lecture on the role that visual art played in relation to countercultural movements in Japan from the turbulent 1960s to the present day.

01/07/2026ONLINE EVENT - The Japan Society Film Club: Summer Wars directed by Mamoru Hosoda

01/07/2026

Join us for our July Film Club to dive into the imaginative animated movie, Summer Wars, directed by Mamoru Hosoda in 2009, which explores friendship, family and the digital world, set against the backdrop of a virtual crisis that blurs the line between reality and cyberspace.

07/07/2026Japanese Conversation Group

07/07/2026

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.

13/07/2026ONLINE EVENT - The Japan Society Book Club: Set My Heart on Fire by Izumi Suzuki

13/07/2026

Through stark, fragmented narratives, Set My Heart on Fire portrays women navigating unstable relationships and emotional isolation in postwar Japan.

04/08/2026Japanese Conversation Group

04/08/2026

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.

05/08/2026ONLINE EVENT - The Japan Society Film Club: Fires on the Plain directed by Shinya Tsukamoto

05/08/2026

For our Film Club in August, we invite you to explore Shinya Tsukamoto’s brutal and devastating war film, Fires on the Plain (2015), a haunting portrayal of Japanese soldiers wandering through the Philippines during the final days of WW2.

01/09/2026Japanese Conversation Group

01/09/2026

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.

02/09/2026ONLINE EVENT - The Japan Society Film Club: Campaign directed by Kazuhiro Soda

02/09/2026

In the September Film Club, we will discuss Kazuhiro Soda’s political documentary Campaign (2007), an unvarnished portrait of a novice candidate navigating the rigid world of Japanese local elections.

14/09/2026ONLINE EVENT - The Japan Society Book Club: Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata

14/09/2026

Vanishing World imagines a near‑future society in which artificial reproduction replaces sexual relationships, reshaping ideas of love, family, and identity.