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Meet the Authors: SHIBASAKI Tomoka and Polly Barton
Sun 8th March 2026
In celebration of Japanese literature in the UK, join us this March for this rare talk event with multiple award-winning author SHIBASAKI Tomoka and renowned Japanese literary translator Polly Barton. Fluently changing subject between third-person and first-person, SHIBASA...
Voices for a Better Japan: Insights from Anthropology, Religion, Sociology, and History
Wed 11th March 2026
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m., a 9.1magnitude earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a devastating tsunami and a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Marking the fifteenth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, this event will ex...