Japan, like all developed countries, is facing challenges providing healthcare services to those living outside its major centres. Japan spends about 11% of its GDP on healthcare, the same as in Canada. As is well known, overall already 27% of … Continue reading →
Takahiro KONDŌ Ceramic Artist Throughout his career, Takahiro KONDŌ has striven to determine his own independent artistic identity through extensive experimentation. Born in Kyoto into a family celebrated for its traditional sometsuke (cobalt blue-and-white porcelain), he first began working … Continue reading →
Lu Xun (魯迅), 20th-century China's most famous writer, spent the last nine years of his life in Shanghai (1927-1936). An avid reader of Japanese from his school years there at the start of the century, he soon befriended Uchiyama Kanzō … Continue reading →
Coffee has been a beverage of significance in Japan since it was first brought to Japan by Portuguese and Dutch traders in the 17th century. It configured social and personal spaces from the late 19th century, well before the current … Continue reading →
Noh Theatre Lecture by Masayuki Nakamura In conjunction with with the current exhibition Masks Onstage: Noh Theatre Photography by Yoshiaki Kanda, the Japan Foundation, Toronto will be hosting a lecture by the director of the Yokohama Noh Theatre Masayuki Nakamura. Reservations are … Continue reading →
This event will relate two Studio Ghibli films, "My Neighbor Totoro" and "From Up On Poppy Hill", to the works of Kenji Miyazawa, a well-known Japanese children's literature writer. "My Neighbor Totoro" has been described as "one of the most … Continue reading →
Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931) is regarded as the father of Japanese capitalism. He founded nearly 500 enterprises and economic organizations, most of which operate to this day. Equally dedicated to social and public welfare, he launched 600 philanthropic programs in many … Continue reading →
In the early 1970s Japan was in the grip of an “occult boom” that exploded across popular media. This was a fad, but also something more: A popular media theory that tried to come to terms with a new media … Continue reading →
The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair was a global spectacle unlike anything the world had ever seen. To showcase its history and culture at the Fair, Japan sent a myriad of arts, crafts, and other treasures. Among these were eight iki … Continue reading →
Packaging, the wrapping of goods and materials, indeed “wrapping” even in its widest sense, is integral to human exchange and interaction. There are of course direct functional reasons for both personal and commercial packaging: physical protection; containment or agglomeration; security; … Continue reading →
