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See photos from ‘Women in Work: Japan’, where our panel of experts discussed the reasons why Japan lags behind for women in work, drawing on personal experience and their research.

On Saturday 6 April, The Japan Youth Collective hosted an event at Japan House London to mark the end of the of their time on the programme. The event, Discover Japan Day, was designed and organised by the Collective themselves with the aim of promoting Japan and giving other young people a chance to experience Japanese culture first-hand. 

See photos from the 2024 lecture by the British Ambassador to Japan, Julia Longbottom CMG.

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.

On Saturday 2 March 2024, we are pleased to have hosted The Japan Society Spring MiniFest in West Kensington with the aim of introducing young people of various ages to Japanese culture and its various art forms.

See photos from our February woodblock printing workshop, with Hiroko Imada.

We are thrilled to share our plans for 2024, with an exciting line-up of events in business, arts & culture, contemporary issues and special occasions.

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.

For their first Japan Lab after the New Year, the Japan Youth Collective met with graphic novelist Fumio Obata who shared insights about manga and the manga industry.

See photos from our special private tour of Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective, at The Photographers’ Gallery