This is a partial list of eligible Japan-related events.
Please check often – This page is constantly updated!
Please ask your instructor if what you find online counts for your Language Beyond the Classroom (Culture Pass)!
Recurring Events (in person)
Nihongo Social
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Place: TBA
Please sign up using the QR code on the flyer.
Unaffiliated Recurring Events (in person)
Cultural & Innovative Fridays by Consulate-General of Japan in Boston
The Consulate-General of Japan in Boston organizes a series of cultural events on Fridays. Please check their website for the most updated calendar.
Talks and events organized by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University
Unaffiliated Recurring Events (online)
Japanese/English Language Exchange by the Japan Society of Boston
The Japan Society of Boston hosts a monthly Japanese/English language exchange once every month. Please check their website for the most up-to-date information.
One-time Events (in person)
11/18 (Wednesday), US-Japan Relations in the Wake of the US Midterm Elections by The Japan Society of Boston in partnership with the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia at the Pardee School
Wednesday, November 18, 5:00-6:30 pm @121 Bay State Rd.
The relationship between the United States and Japan remains strong amid an unstable and unpredictable global environment. But the relationship faces many challenges, both foreign and domestic, including the US midterm elections of November 3 and questions about the longevity of the current Japanese government. Join us for a discussion with Glen S. Fukushima, JSB Board member and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, currently a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University. In conversation with Boston University’s Professor William Grimes, Mr. Fukushima will assess the outlook for US-Japan relations following the US midterm elections.
Glen S. Fukushima is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. He was a senior executive in Asia for one European and four American global corporations and was elected twice to serve as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. He also served as Director for Japanese Affairs and Deputy Assistant USTR at the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in Washington, DC. He was educated at Deep Springs College, Stanford, and Harvard and was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tokyo.
Free for BU Students: Show valid BU Student ID at the door
More information from JSB website
4/24 (Friday), Karaoke - Sing in Japanese! by BU Japanese Program
Friday, April 24, 4:30-5:55 pm @CAS 533B (Geddes Language Center)
This is a Language Beyond the Classroom event.
Seats are limited. Please register here.
4/9 (Thursday), Don't be Rude! - Exploration of Politeness and Respect in East Asian Cultures by the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean clusters of the Global House
Thursday, April 9, 7-8 pm @Multi-purpose Room (610 Beacon St.)
This event qualifies for Language Beyond the Classroom.
Please sign up using the QR code in the flyer!
3/31 (Tuesday), Why Ghosts Matter: The Underground History of Japan
Tuesday, March 31, 6 pm @ The Allen & Shirley Leventhal Center (233 Bay State Road)
Speaker: Dr. Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature, Columbia University
Ghosts are a key to understanding anxieties about family, social injustice, and political violence in Japan. Unpacking four types of ghosts in Japan: political ghosts, ancestral ghosts, social ghosts, and non-human ghosts, the talk shows how these “ghost lineages” interlink, how they transform over time, and what they tell us about notions of personhood, community, power, and the non-human in Japanese history.
Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University, is the author of Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts (2012), Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho (1997), The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji (1987), and other books. He is an honorary member of the Japan Academy. The Allen & Shirley Leventhal Center 233 Bay State Road March 31 – 6 PM
3/20 (Friday), Japanese Traditional Games by BU Japanese Program
Friday, March 20, 4:30-5:20 pm @ CAS B20
One-time Events (online)
9/16 (Wednesday), Summer Style Matcha with Edosenke Grand Master Sosetsu Kawakami by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles
Wednesday, September 16, 7:00 -8:15 pm (PDT), Zoom Webiner
(The corresponding EDT is 10:00 -11:15 pm.)
Join Sōsetsu Kawakami, 11th-generation head of the Edosenke School of Tea, for an engaging online introduction to Japanese tea culture and the traditional ways of enjoying matcha in summer. Through this Zoom Webinar, he will explore what tea ceremony is, what a tea school’s head does, and what students learn through tea practice.
He will also introduce the differences and shared principles among various tea schools, the history and traditions of Edosenke, and how to enjoy matcha even during the hot summer months while following the traditional principles and etiquette of Japanese tea ceremony.
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