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22 March 2019 The Perth USAsia Centre in partnership with the Consulate-General of Japan, Perth present a public forum featuring diplomats and experts from Japan, Australia, and ASEAN to discuss opportunities and challenges in the Indo-Pacific region for Australian organisations and businesses. Australia and Japan have adopted the Indo-Pacific as a guiding concept of their foreign policymaking. The concept puts the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) [...]

28th-30th June 2019 The Japan Association of Translators (JAT) will hold its 30th International Japanese-English Translation Conference (IJET-30), its flagship professional-development-and-networking event, in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia on June 28-30, 2019. This year, our theme is Life, Style, and Translation ― ことばを繋ぎ、未来を紡ぐ. The Japan Association of Translators (JAT) was founded in 1985 to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas among translators working between Japanese and English, and to [...]

19th March 2019 Join Asialink Business and Monash College for a panel event on�Japan's�Society 5.0: Transforming Digital Innovation. Japan has embarked on a bold initiative named �Society 5.0.� Spearheaded by the Abe government, the nation is embracing the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, big data and artificial intelligence to create smart solutions to resolve various social challenges, such as, the increasingly ageing population. Leveraging the innovations of the fourth industrial [...]

03 Apr 2019 | presented by the AJS NSW A cultural exchange trip to Japan at the age of 17 sparked a lifelong love of the country, opening the door to a successful career of public service for Bruce Miller. After more than 30 years working for his country, including six years as ambassador to Japan, Mr Miller was recognised in 2017 , with an appointment as an Officer of [...]

11 March 2019 | presented by Japan Club of Sydney / Rainbow Project Film Screening and Tohoku Exhibition Tohoku Photo Exhibition , Tohoku Local Food and Products Sale etc(Free to Attend except food & film ) About Film Screening [ Life Goes On ] (English Subtitle) True stories of ordinary people struggling to rebuild their lives after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011.Courage and compassion in the [...]

to 21 Jul 2019 | Art Gallery of South Australia? ARTISTIC INNOVATION FROM THE MEIJI ERA OF CHANGE AND EXCHANGE. Export Empire explores a transformative era in Japanese art and culture coinciding with rapid political and industrial changes that forged modern Japan. Known as the Meiji era (1868�1912), this period is defined by the emergence of innovative media and the creation of opulent and extravagant export wares for western tastes, [...]

9th March 2019 The Perth Japan Festival is a cultural event held every summer (around February or March) in Perth since 2013. A cultural event to promote friendship between Japan and Perth. Includes Japanese food stalls, small goods, and exhibits of cultural information. Stage events include Japanese martial arts, music and pop culture. view more

13 Mar 2019 Sino-US relations experienced a strategic turning point in 2018. The Chinese expectation that the United States would continue to support free trade, and the US expectation that economic liberalisation in China would eventually lead its democratisation, which had been the foundation of bilateral relations, crumbled. Has a new Cold War started? The United States is the only security ally of Japan, while China is its biggest trading [...]

8 Mar 2019 In this symposium, prominent Australian and Japanese artists, cultural commentators and scholars speak about their personal relationship with an object that embodies a connection between Japan or Australia. They reflect on their own role as intermediaries between Australia and Japan and Australia in their own professional worlds. As narrators, creators, distributors, interpreters and consumers of these objects, they - and we - are transforming everyday life and [...]

from 27th Feb 2019 Japan Foundation We humans love �love�. Popular culture and media across the globe testify to our collective enthusiasm, feeding us constant streams of romance, love and sex in all its forms. It�s everywhere�and Japan is no exception. But declining birth and marriage rates in Japan suggest a disconnect between the consumption of romantic narratives for entertainment and the presence of romance in real life. This is [...]