Associated Programs of “The 150th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Italy and Japan”

*The programs may be changed without notice due to unavoidable circumstances.
*The Japan Foundation=JF
*Updated on April 28, 2015

detailed information
Program City Date(s) Organizer(s)
Temple Tastes - Talk by Kakuho Aoe, Buddhist priest at Ryokusen-ji Temple Rome January 25, 2016 JF
Japanese Film Screenings: Women Protagonist in the screen Rome January 29 - March 18, 2016 JF
Exhibition: Manga Hokusai Manga: Approaching the Master’s Compendium from the Perspective of Contemporary Comics Rome February 5 - April 7, 2016 JF
Japanese Studies Follow-up Conference: “Seventy Years in Peace: Japan and Memory of War“ by Stefano Romagnoli, researcher at Sapienza University of Rome Rome February 9, 2016 JF
Symposium on Macrobiotic: Georges Osawa, Yukikazu Sakurazawa – The Life Dedicated to the Pursuit and Spread of the Real Liberty Rome February 19, 2016 JF, Italy UPM Association
Japanese Studies Follow-up Conference: “Women Proposing to Men in Ancient Japan“ by Carolina Negri, Associate Professor at Venice University Rome February 26, 2016 JF
Mini-performance of Bunraku (Japanese traditional puppet theater) – Kanjuro Kiritake III European Tour Rome March 5, 2016 JF
Yusuke Hishida Photo Exhibition Rome March 10 - 11, 2016 JF, Friends of Rome for Tohoku
Symposium: Fukushima in Digital Age and Communication in Emergency – between Reason and Emotion Rome March 11, 2016 JF, Milano University
Japanese Tee Ceremony Demonstration Rome March 30, 2016 JF, Embassy of Japan in Italy
Shamisen Talk and Demonstration by Kenichi Yoshida Rome April 8, 2016 JF, Embassy of Japan in Italy
Vivid Meisen: Modern Kimono Exhibition Rome April 22 - June 4, 2016 JF, Ashikaga Museum of Art
Japanese Film Screenings: Power of Music Rome April 26 - June 9, 2016 JF
Exhibition: Manga Hokusai Manga: Approaching the Master’s Compendium from the Perspective of Contemporary Comics Bologna May 3 - 22, 2016 JF, Future Film Festival
Commemorative Light up Project: “Colosseum” by Motoko Ishii Lighting Design Inc. Rome May 11 - 13, 2016 Committee for Light up Colosseum Project
International Symposium on Literature: From the roots to the flowering branches of Japanese Lieterature Bologna May 12 - 13, 2016 JF, Sapienza University of Rome, AISTUGIA, Embassy of Japan in Italy
Japanese Pavilion at the 15th Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia: “en: art of nexus” Venice May 28 - November 27, 2016 JF
Exhibition: Uncountable Singularity: Genealogy of House Architecture in Japan 1945-2015 Rome October 20, 2016 - February 26, 2017 JF, Museo nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI)
Exhibition: The Dolls of Japan: Shapes of Prayer, Embodiments of Love Rome October – December 2016 JF
Opera: Hanjo Rome November 17-18, 2016 JF, Roma Sinfonietta, Festival di Nuova Consonanza 2016, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre
Japanese Film Screenings: Food in Film Rome January – March 2017 JF
Kenji Sakai Lecuture & Concert Rome TBD JF
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