Past Events

Japan’s Middle East Security Policy: Theory and Cases

This study examines how Japanese policy toward Middle East security issues is shaped by the need to both maintain Japan’s security alliance with the US and its oil relationship with states in the Middle East. Yukiko Miyagi introduces the historic roots of Japan’s policy, and then focuses on the major contemporary cases – the Iraq war, the Iranian nuclear crisis, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, to expose and explain how clashing interests and dilemmas were negotiated to arrive at policy outcomes.

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Annual Seminar Series Seminar

International Diplomacy Challenges for Britain and Japan: An Overview

‘International Diplomacy Challenges for Britain and Japan’ was the first in the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’. Summary The Chair, Sir Graham Fry, British Ambassador to Japan from 2004-2008, opened proceedings by positing that the UK and Japan tend to have the same aims

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A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day

‘A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors’, published by Stone Bridge Press, was launched at the Foundation with a presentation by Alexander Jacoby, chaired by David Robinson.

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Lecture

Daiwa Japan Forum Prize Lecture - Ethnography and Literature: the Colonial Journey of Satō Haruo

This lecture, based on Dr Robert Tierney’s article in Japan Forum, examined the early development of Japanese anthropology and its influence on colonial literature.

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Why Japan Can't Reform: Inside the System

At the start of the 1990s, Japan’s post war economic success came to an abrupt end and the country slid into a decade-long recession from which it has, on many levels, still not recovered.

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The Lord Roll Memorial Lecture

On 18 November at Chatham House, Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, gave a lecture entitled ‘Central banks and the public: the importance of communication’.

The lecture was in memory of Lord Roll of Ipsden, KCMG CB (1907-2005).

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Artist talk

Tetsuo Fujimoto in conversation with Lesley Millar

Tetsuo Fujimoto discussed the exhibition with Lesley Millar (Professor of Textile Culture, University for the Creative Arts).

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Private view

Surface Matters: Machine Drawings by Tetsuo Fujimoto

The Private View was held to mark the opening of the exhibition.

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Annual Seminar Series Seminar

The Global Economy: Perspectives from the UK and Japan

As the deterioration in global economic and financial conditions takes its toll, reflections on the past and concerns about the future continue to dominate national and international headlines.

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Artist talk

Kishio Suga: in conversation with Simon Groom

Kishio Suga discussed the exhibition with Simon Groom

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Private view

Kishio Suga

The Private View was held the mark the opening of the Exhibition.

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Seminar

New Ideas of the Dancing Body

A seminar discussion examining the ways in which the body has been reconceived in contemporary performance, from the perspectives of choreographer, designer and producer.

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