03/08/2017
UK and Ireland cities’ solidarity with Hiroshima and Nagasaki
PRESS RELEASE As the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic weapon attacks approaches, NFLA welcomes events all around the UK and Ireland. The Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) welcomes events being held in the UK and Ireland, and across the world, which commemorate and share in solidarity with the cities of Hiroshima and […]
27/07/2017
Motomiya City Visits Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for Sister Garden
On 20 July, a delegation from Motomiya City in Fukushima Prefecture led by the city’s mayor, paid a special visit to Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for the Sister Garden Memorandum of Friendship Signing Ceremony. The occasion marked the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima Garden in Holland Park’s which will be twinned with the […]
11/07/2017
[Event PR] Natsume Soseki versus William Shakespeare (open lecture)
Tuesday 25th July 2017 16:00-17:30 Soseki Public Lecture “Natsume Soseki versus William Shakespeare: Two Heavyweights of World Literature” Speaker: Dr Damian Flanagan Venue: the Gustave Tuck LT, 2nd Floor, South Junction, Wilkins Building, Gower Street WC1E 6BT https://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/gustave-tuck-lt 18:00-Reception -Library exhibition on Japan-UCL interaction -Presentation by Matsuyama Higashi High School students -Herb tea demonstration etc. Venue: North Cloister, Wilkins […]
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 […]
