Events by year: 2005

24 May 2005

Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan

Although best known for his landscape print series, Hokusai also excelled in book illustration, erotica, privately commissioned woodcuts, and paintings of historical and legendary themes. This volume provides new insights into the diverse aspects of Hokusai’s life and work in essays by Asano Shugo, Gian Carlo Calza, John T Carpenter, Timothy Clark, Doris Croissant, Julie Nelson Davis, Roger Keyes, Kobayashi Fumiko, Kobayashi Tadashi, Kubota Kazuhiro, Naito Masato, David Pollack, John M Rosenfield, Timon Screech, Henry D Smith II and Tsuji Nobuo.

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12 May 2005

Japan’s Global Role: the Diplomacy of Aid, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

The March 2005 meeting of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group, held in Tokyo and Nagoya, highlighted various areas of UK-Japan cooperation in responding to global challenges. Peace and security, as well as aid issues, increasingly dominate the geopolitical agenda. How both countries might work together in future to share knowledge and experience and to meet these global challenges were addressed by the speaker, Professor Akiko Yamanaka, a former Member of Japan’s House of Representatives with an extensive portfolio of involvements relating to international diplomacy and security and crisis management.

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3 May 2005

New Paradigm in Macroeconomics

‘New Paradigm in Macroeconomics’ is published by Palgrave Macmillan. It is both a powerful and important book, which challenges both much received wisdom and the role of the Bank of Japan.

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7 April 2005

UK-Japan Overtures: Developments and Collaborations in Music

From the introduction of the Western classical tradition to Japan in the Meiji period to the study of Japanese traditional music in the West, the cross-currents of influence have evolved in a range of performance contexts. Music education in Britain has been enriched by the influence of Yamaha and Suzuki methods while Japanese artists and musicians have become central to the international music scene.

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16 February 2005

Europe and Asia: Cultural Policy and National Identity

To mark the EU-Japan Year of People-to-People Exchanges, this seminar addressed the subject of cultural policy and national identity. How national image and culture may be projected abroad and how cultural policy is adapted to different overseas contexts were explored from the perspectives of the British Council, the German Embassy and the French Institute. The

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1 February 2005

A Tale of Two Countries: higher education 'incorporation’ in the UK and Japan

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, in association with the Japan-UK Higher Education Collaboration Programme, hosted a joint seminar given by Professor Sir David Watson, Vice Chancellor, University of Brighton, and Professor Fujio Ohmori of the Research Centre for Higher Education, Kumamoto University. Sir Howard Newby, Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, was

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