22 March 2010
Japan under the DPJ Government
Former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hitoshi Tanaka, shares his views on the changes in Japan’s foreign policy since the DPJ came to power.
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Former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hitoshi Tanaka, shares his views on the changes in Japan’s foreign policy since the DPJ came to power.
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Gill discussed recent developments in printmaking with Nana Shiomi and talked about her book, ‘Prints Now’.
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Nana Shiomi demonstrated woodcut printing with water-based ink and hand printing using contemporary Baren.
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This second seminar in the 2010 series, ‘States in Change: National Identity in the UK and Japan’, explored the historical development of national identity in modern Japan, situating the Japanese experience in a wider comparative framework with particular reference to Germany and Italy.
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Talk and book launch by Professor Paul Coldwell, Chelsea College of Art and Design, to coincide with Nana Shiomi’s Exhibition, “Looking into the Mirror Pond”. Professor Coldwell and Nana discussed contemporary printmaking.
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This book casts new light on the struggle for Buraku liberation, the international peace movement and the left wing in Japan between 1945-1966.
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This first seminar in the 2010 series, ‘States in Change: National Identity in the UK and Japan’, explored the impact of political change or its prospect on society, its values and aspirations. The Democratic Party of Japan’s recent election victory has overturned over fifty years of nearly unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party. Does this major political upheaval represent a rejection of the past or does it point to a profound change in Japanese society and its expectations of government?
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