Events by year: 2019

24 January 2019

On Kurosawa: a Tribute to the Master Director

In this book launch, Peter Tasker introduced his latest book ‘On Kurosawa: A Tribute to the Master Director’. Peter explored the body of work and legacy of the film director Akira Kurosawa and look at why Kurosawa’s films are so popular around the world.

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17 January 2019

Industry-academia partnerships: collaborations between UK universities and Japanese enterprises

This talk looked at collaborations between industry and academia, discussing how these partnerships contribute to industrial innovation and the challenges in creating these partnerships. Professor Mikael Adolphson, University of Cambridge, and Kiyomi Hashimoto, CEO of Dojima Sake Brewery, used the example of collaboration between the University of Cambridge and Japanese enterprise to explain how UK universities and Japanese enterprises can effectively work together to promote innovation.

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