2 August 2012
The Japanese Embassy are currently hosting a Tokyo 1964 Olympics exhibition filled with both exciting memorabilia kept from the games itself, and an excellent bank of information and facts about Tokyo at the time of the games.
Read on25 July 2012
Operating out of Tokyo’s Kusoge suburb, KOSUGE1-16 is a husband-and-wife duo renowned for their adventurous and interactive art. A glance at their website yields works such as a larger-than-life table football assembly, manned by up to 12 competing children, as well as an equally impressive and interactive Scalextric-esque cycledrome.
Read on20 July 2012
In 1964, Tokyo held the Olympics, 24 years after it would have done, if it hadn’t been for the outbreak of the Second World War. Tokyo was still recovering from the war, repairing buildings and train systems in time for the Olympics. In fact, Tokyo went beyond repair.
Read on20 July 2012
Today (20 July 2012) we visited the Japanese Embassy to see the new “Tokyo 1964” Olympics exhibition. This exhibition was filled with all sorts of photos, literature, information and other memorabilia from the 1964 games (and the months preceding them!).
Read on20 July 2012
This is a show that was written in the 60s by Shuji Terayama, the avant-garde director, poet, dramatist, photographer, writer and who knows what else.
Read on19 July 2012
On Tuesday 17th July, we were treated to a fantastic performance at St Martin-in-the-Fields by the brilliant Ueda/Rinaldo duo. Lisa Ueda is a Japanese violinist who graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a First Class Honours. The opening piece, Janacek’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano” was dramatic and heartfelt, and effectively conveyed the feelings of the composer.
Read on19 July 2012
Sumidagawa is a fifteenth century Noh play, while Curlew River, a church parable, is an adaptation of it by Benjamin Britten – both will be performed at Christ Church Spitalfields, London on 7 September at 6:30 pm and at St Bartholomew in Orford, Suffolk on 9 September at 3:00 pm. Details can be found here.
Read on17 July 2012
Acclaimed Japanese artist Shimabuku began his Wide Open Class at the Hayward Gallery by humorously recounting a selection of his previous exhibitions and works of art, often alternative, which somehow included food.
Read on16 July 2012
As a lover of Japanese craft and design, the highlight of my weekend was visiting re:new tohoku at Asia House in London – an exhibition of design and craft products from Tohoku. Unfortunately the exhibition has now finished, but the catalogue is available to download here.
Read on13 July 2012
The Japanese government has recently decided that sake should be actively promoted as an export product, and the word has gone out to Japanese organisations across the world.
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