17 April 2008
‘Innovation and Change: Challenges for Industry in the UK and Japan’, the fourth in this year’s seminar series, ‘Economic Futures: Wealth and Well-Being in the UK and Japan’, brought together complementary knowledge on innovation and the role of government.
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The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation was pleased to announce an exhibition of installation and photography by Yukako Shibata.
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‘Saving and Spending: Banking Crises and Consumer Confidence’, the third in this year’s seminar series, ‘Economic Futures: Wealth and Well-Being in the UK and Japan’, could not have been more timely, coming in the wake of the nationalisation of Northern Rock and on the eve of the announcement that the American bank, Bear Stearns, had received emergency funding, raising fears that one of Wall Street’s biggest names was on the brink of collapse.
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This series of three volumes focuses on comparative politics and international relations in Asia and Europe from a citizen-based perspective. The speakers drew on themes and comparisons from these studies to highlight differences in attitudes and relationships in contemporary political life in Asia and Europe.
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Japan’s traditional folk songs (min’yō) have strong links with local identity and particular places. The growth of domestic tourism actually strengthened this trend: even the professionally-composed ‘new min’yō’ of the 1930s, commissioned by railway companies and the like, usually included local place names in their titles.
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‘A Tale of Two Cities: London and Tokyo in the 21st Century’ was the second in this year’s seminar series, ‘Economic Futures: Wealth and Well-Being in the UK and Japan’.
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One of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) in late-eighteenth-century Japan, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?–1806) was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women.
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This first seminar in the series set the scene and provided a context for the full 2008 programme by offering an overview of the British and Japanese economies and an outlook for the future.
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The book launch of Santō Kyōden’s famous early nineteenth-century novel ‘The Straw Sandal, or The Scroll of the Hundred Crabs’ was a celebration of Carmen Blacker’s career as scholar and writer.
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The Private View was held to mark the opening of the exhibition.
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Inspired by the rich woodland surrounding his birthplace of Nagoya, Japan, Kazuhito Takadoi creates ‘organic art’ using materials he has grown and selected in his own garden.
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