10 March 2010
Special event
Woodcut Printing Demonstration with Nana Shiomi
Nana Shiomi demonstrated woodcut printing with water-based ink and hand printing using contemporary Baren.
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23 February 2010
Annual Seminar Series Seminar
Nationhood, Nationalism and Global Citizenship
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.
More info17 February 2010
Artist talk
‘Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective’
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.
More info27 January 2010
Book launch
The Buraku Issue and Modern Japan: The Career of Matsumoto Jiichiro
This book casts new light on the struggle for Buraku liberation, the international peace movement and the left wing in Japan between 1945-1966.
More info18 January 2010
Annual Seminar Series Seminar
Political Change and National Identity in the UK and Japan
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?
More info10 December 2009
Book launch
Conflict and Change: Foreign Ownership and the Japanese Firm
What happens to the traditional work practices of Japanese firms when they are taken over by European and American firms? How do the employees react? What lessons can be learned from examples of successful and unsuccessful acquisitions?
More info26 November 2009
Book launch
Showa Japan: The Post-War Golden Age and its Troubled Legacy
Japan’s Showa era began in 1926 when Emperor Hirohito took the throne and ended on his death in 1989. It was undoubtedly the most momentous, calamitous, successful and glamorous period in Japan’s recent history.
More info18 November 2009
Annual Seminar Series Seminar
Japan’s Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship
The eighth seminar in the 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’, took its title from a recently-published book that examines Japan’s role in ‘a more complicated world’.
More info21 October 2009
Annual Seminar Series Seminar
Japan and Europe: Negotiating the Russian Relationship
This seventh seminar in the 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’, reflected on relations with Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
More info2 October 2009
Seminar
Victorian Architecture in Meiji Japan
This lecture by the eminent architectural historian, Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki, explored the Victorian face of Meiji Japan through the work of Josiah Conder (1852-1920), a British architect invited by the Japanese government to teach at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1877.
More info30 September 2009
Book launch
The Transformation of the Japanese Left: From Old Socialists to New Democrats
‘The Transformation of the Japanese Left’ examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ‘the old socialists’, the Japan Socialist Party, and in its place, the emergence of the Democratic Party of Japan as the leading opposition party.
More info24 September 2009
Annual Seminar Series Seminar
Britain and Japan in the Developing World
This sixth seminar in the 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’, looked at the particular roles played by Japan and Britain in international development assistance.
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