Start the week right with Japanese jokes! Worried that the Japanese you’re learning isn’t funny enough? Come to the Japan Foundation and work on developing your sense of humour with kobanashi—Japanese one man stand up comedy. In this class we … Continue reading →
Dir. Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954, 156 min. An elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher’s unwavering commitment to her students, her profession, and her sense of morality. Set in a remote, rural island community and spanning decades of Japanese history, from 1928 … Continue reading →
Speaker: Professor Francesco Campagnola (Ghent University) with an introduction by Professor Thomas Keirstead (Chair, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto) How did seventeenth and eighteenth century European documents, maps and journals represent Japan? How did the Republic of … Continue reading →
*This class is currently full. Thank you for your interest* Our Japanese Language and Culture Sampler courses are a series of courses offering a window into both Japanese language and culture. Please come and sample various aspects of Japanese culture … Continue reading →
co-presented by The Japan Foundation and the Gardiner Museum Speaker: Professor Nicole Rousmaniere (University of East Anglia and Curator, Department of Asia, British Museum) NEW (Dec. 1): Lecture slides available for download This talk will address the history of collecting … Continue reading →
Dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2007, 118 min. Based on the popular manga Tennen Kokekko, A Gentle Breeze in the Village transports us to the world of a teenage girl growing up in a small country village. Soyo is the only eighth … Continue reading →
A talk by Professor Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu (Rice University) & screening of Sleeping Tigers “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” This oft-quoted observation about baseball’s special place in American culture and society … Continue reading →
Continuing Learning Japanese XVII Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (Ontario Chapter) The Japan Foundation, Toronto Japanese is taught at several secondary schools in Toronto and its surrounding areas. Yet, it appears that teachers do not … Continue reading →
‘Til the Break of Dawn Dir. Yuichiro Hirakawa, 2012, 129 min. An urban legend tells of the existence of a human, the Connector, who has the ability to arrange meetings between the living and the dead. Hatada, a cynical middle-aged … Continue reading →
Kids Police Dir. Yuichi Fukuda, 2013, 100 min. The elite detectives of the Special Investigations Division (SID) of the Kanagawa Police Department have fallen into a trap set by notorious crime broker Red Venus and inhaled a special gas which … Continue reading →
