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 on12 June 2012
Little Sunshine and Little Rainfall invite you to their magic garden. But trouble is afoot for the two gardeners when naughty Storm Fox comes to visit…
Read on25 May 2012
Last night, Frances Morris, Head of Collections (International Art) at Tate and former Head of Displays at Tate Modern, spoke at the Japan Foundation about curating the Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Tate Modern, which is open until 5 June in London, before touring to the Whitney in New York in July. For Morris, there
Read on24 May 2012
Yesterday’s ‘PechaKucha for Japan’ event at Logan Hall, Institute of Education brought together an exciting, talented and eclectic mix of presenters and an audience of 500, according to the host and additional speaker for the evening, Michael Johnson (johnson banks).
Read on10 May 2012
On 23 May there will be an event at Logan Hall in Bloomsbury, London, called PechaKucha: Japan. Just over a year after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, in conjunction with D&AD, a collection of the design and communication world’s greatest stars are being gathered to share stories about Japan.
Read on26 April 2012
It was a cold, wet and miserable day in London yesterday, and with storms threatening I have to say I wasn’t overly keen to spend my evening in a crypt. Fortunately, the artists and designers who are a part of LOOCHOO ‘Time’ which was opening at The Crypt Gallery in London brought all of the warmth of Okinawa with them, along with music, dancing and live painting.
Read on4 April 2012
Direct from Japan to attend Mr Punch’s 350th birthday celebrations, two masters of kugutsu – Shiro Ito and Eimei Katami – will be appearing at the Little Angel Theatre in London on Thursday, 10 May, to present an evening of puppetry, including a Japanese-style Punch and Judy show.
Read on14 March 2012
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting Shūji Terayama ‘who can say that we should not live like dogs?’ at the Tate Modern, Friday 16 March to Sunday 25 March 2012.
Read on8 December 2011
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting Shakespeare’s Globe’s staging of Coriolanus, in Japanese, by Chiten, a 15-member theatre company from Kyoto on 21 and 22 May 2012 as part of the six-week Globe to Globe Shakespeare Festival.
Read on23 November 2011
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting Premiere Japan 2011.
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