11/07/2017
[Event PR] How to Improve our Society through New Business Creation? Memory of Tomoatsu Godai
Our society is facing many problems associated with poverty, cultural conflict, health, environment, technology management and so on. One of the approaches taken to tackle these major issues in modern days is social entrepreneurship, where entrepreneurs intelligently blend profit and social return to establish a sustainable platform in a form of start-up company or other […]
10/07/2017
[Event PR] The Kyoto Tea House Exhibition at Daiwa London
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent’s Park), London NW1 4QP 21 July–22 August 2017 (private view 20 July) From the cultured court of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshima in the eastern hills of Higashiyama above Kyoto, in 15th century Japan, sprung the unique fusion of art and everyday life, beauty in simplicity, […]
29/06/2017
Nara is famous for being Japan’s first permanent capital and one of the country’s most historical destinations, with eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Nara is located in the Kansai region, less than one hour from Kyoto and Osaka. The City of Nara has released a new travel and food website which guides you to unique […]
27/06/2017
[Event PR] ART Festival 2017 – Exhibition of art from Japan and Berlin
This year’s ART FESTIVAL will be held in the “Grosse Orangerie” at Charlottenburg Palace from 23 to 25 July 2017. With more than 400 artworks from Tokyo, Japan, Berlin, and Germany, the exhibition will spotlight a broad range of the artistic directions thriving in both cultures. In Japan the exhibition will be shown in Ikebukuro in Tokyo from […]
27/06/2017
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is preparing a new plan which can be termed as the “Financial System Reform in Tokyo – Tokyo’s Big Bang” in order to regain the status of Asia’s No.1 international financial city, and this new plan will be announced this autumn. Prior to the announcement of the new plan, TMG […]
09/06/2017
Disaster in Japan: 2011 – The Latest Research (UCL-IRDR Seminar 2017)
This event offers a keynote talk, and panel discussions and presentations on the latest Japanese disaster research. UCL-IRDR welcome researchers, practitioners, NGOs, city professionals and members of the public to this international event. Date: June 23 2017 (duration) 09:30-13:15 (registration from 09.00) Location: University College London, Roberts Building 106 (Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT) 09:00-09:30 […]
07/06/2017
A Special Anniversary: Discovering Tokyo’s 23 Wards at 70
In the global perception, Tokyo is a megacity and sprawling metropolis of 13m people. Tokyo itself is governed, separately to the rest of Japan’s prefectures, as the Tokyo Metropolis (the so-called Tokyo-to or Tokyo Metropolitan Government), with a core central area of 23 subdivisions known as ‘special wards’. While the metropolitan government serves as the […]
02/06/2017
Japanese local food and sake marketing training
On 1 June, Rie Yoshitake from Sake Samurai and Mr Kenichi Shimamoto from JETRO London held a seminar for new staff at the Local Government Centre. The aim was to introduce current trends in the UK’s Japanese food and drink scene, and to discuss the most effective methods of sake promotion. For more details please […]
25/05/2017
Okinawa Day 2017 – Spitalfields
Saturday 24 June 10am-6pm Admission Free London Okinawa Sanshinkai is back at Spitalfields this summer for Okinawa Day. Join us to celebrate Okinawan classical and folk music, Eisa dancing, karate, food, drinks and much much more! For further enquiries visit the Okinawa Day website.
24/05/2017
Industrial Strategy: Oldham’s Historic Cotton Links to Japan
‘Follow the Thread’ Gallery Oldham, Oldham Cultural Quarter, Greaves Street, Oldham OL1 1AL Runs 27 May – 8 July Over 150 years ago in 1865 Godai Tomoatsu, one of the Satsuma Students from the western Japanese island of Kyushu and agent of the Prince of Satsuma, secretly came to Oldham, the world’s greatest cotton mill […]
