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See photos from Earth Sense: Artists' Talk with Hamish Fulton and Masako Yasuki.

Watch the recording of the conversation with Rebecca Salter, artist and President of the Royal Academy of Arts, about her long-standing fascination with Japan.

Watch a series of presentations from the Japan400 Conference, which took place at the Embassy of Japan in December 2023, celebrating 400 years of Japan-British relations. Supported by The Japan Society.

Watch the recording of another edition of our regular quarterly webinars on business and current affairs with The Japan Society chair Bill Emmott and Jesper Koll, who were joined in this edition by one of Japan's top political writers, Keiko Iizuka.

Watch the recording of another edition of our regular quarterly webinars on business and current affairs with The Japan Society chair Bill Emmott and Jesper Koll, who were joined in this edition by special guest Founder & Chair of Monex, Oki Matsumoto.

Watch the recording of the fifth of our regular quarterly webinars on business and current affairs with Japan Society chairman Bill Emmott and Jesper Koll, who were joined in this edition by special guest Professor Takako Hikotani.

Watch the recording of the fourth of our regular quarterly webinars on business and current affairs with Japan Society chairman Bill Emmott and Jesper Koll, who were joined in this edition by special guest Nobukatsu Kanehara.

Watch the recording and read the report of our conversation with Yasuhiro Matsuda, professor at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia and Meia Nouwens, Senior Fellow for Chinese Defence Policy and Military Modernisation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Watch the recording and read the report of our conversation with Noriyuki Shikata, Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, considering what might be in store for Japan in 2022.

Watch the recording and read the report of our first webinar in 2022, in which Bill Emmott was joined by two expert analysts, Jesper Koll in Japan and Jim McCafferty in Hong Kong, to discuss whether we can expect it to bring ‘strength, vitality and growth’ to the Japan and East Asian in this Year of the Tiger.