14 March 2011
Seven Angels
Tadasu Takamine, Artist, in discussion with Jonathan Watkins, Director of Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery and John Fulljames, Artistic Director of The Opera Group.
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10 March 2011
Modern Photography in Japan
Tom Jacobson and Kaori Hashimoto discussed with Tate Modern’s Simon Baker their collection of classic Japanese photographs.
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What the State Provides: Social Security and the Welfare State
This second seminar in the 2011 series, Uncertain Futures: The Individual, Society and the State in the UK and Japan, explored the concepts and issues surrounding social security and welfare provision in the UK and Japan. The speakers considered current arrangements in both countries in the context of longstanding debates on trust and responsibility and what the State should provide to support social needs.
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Photographing Cities: The Diorama Map
Sohei Nishino is a young Japanese photographer whose body of work is centred on the ‘Diorama Map’ project. Supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, he came to London last year to take thousands of photographs of the city. His ever-evolving ‘Diorama Map’ project currently includes the ten cities of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Shanghai, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Istanbul and London.
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Artist talk
Tokyo Story | Meet the Artist
British Artist Emily Allchurch was in conversation with Laura Noble, Writer and Director of Diemar Noble Gallery.
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How Family Norms are Reinforced across Generations in Japan: The Case of Single Mothers and Their Parents
This lecture investigated the relationship between marriage and childbearing in contemporary Japan. Family studies in the industrialised world in the post-war period have come to see the dissociation of marriage and childbearing as a virtually unavoidable consequence of industrialisation, modernisation and the concurrent change in social mores. Yet there is one industrialised country where almost
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Private view
Echoes through Nature: Woodcuts by Katsutoshi Yuasa
A Private View was held to announce the first major solo exhibition in London by Katsutoshi Yuasa with an introduction by Chris Orr RA.
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Japanese Prints during the Edo Period
Japanese woodblock prints have long been appreciated in the West for their graphic qualities but their content has not always been fully understood. In recent years, publications by scholars in Japan, Europe and the United States have made possible a more subtle appreciation of the imagery encountered in them.
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Managing Public Debt and Social Challenges
This first seminar in the 2011 series, Uncertain Futures: The Individual, Society and the State in the UK and Japan, explored the challenges facing Britain and Japan as government spending reviews address fiscal deficits and seek to determine priorities for the future. As the opening event of the series, this seminar looked ahead to some of the themes to be covered during the year from healthcare and education provision to work and pension arrangements, opportunities for youth and the burden of ageing societies.
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Private view
Tokyo Story | Private View
Tokyo Story opened at Daiwa Foundation Japan House. Tim Clark gave some opening remarks.
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Book launch
International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing "Kokusai Kenchiku"
After World War I, architects around the world aspired to transcend national boundaries that had been devastated by conflicts. The result was a flurry of artistic creativity. In Japan, young architects strove to create an “international architecture,” or “kokusai kenchiku”, an expression of increasing international travel and communication, growth of the mass media, and technological
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The Etchings of Bernard Leach by Simon Olding
‘Drawing and etching were Bernard Leach’s calling cards: the means by which his name was first made in Japan and his artistry made visible. The significance of this early work cannot be underestimated’. – Simon Olding
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