Events

Performance

8/24/2019
Dublin (OH)

Dublin Taiko 15th Anniversary Concert

Exhibition

6/2/2019 - 8/18/2019
Washington (DC)

The Life of Animals in Japanese Art

Exhibition

4/16/2019 - 8/18/2019
Philadelphia (PA)

Yoshitoshi: Spirit and Spectacle

Workshop

8/12/2019 - 8/16/2019
New York (NY)

Manga Madness! Summer Workshop for Students

Film

7/26/2019 - 8/11/2019
New York (NY)

Machiko Kyo Retrospective

Cultural Event

8/3/2019
Raleigh (NC)

Nippon Club of the Triangle’s Natsu Matsuri

Film

7/3/2019 - 7/28/2019
Washington (DC)

Animals in Japanese Cinema

Talk

7/24/2019
Philadelphia (PA)

Yoshitoshi & Comics

Performance

7/19/2019
Berea (KY)

Levitt AMP Berea Music Series: Ho Etsu Taiko

Exhibition

6/20/2019 - 7/17/2019
New York (NY)

Colors of the Earth: Nihonga Paintings and Natural Mineral Pigments

Exhibition

5/1/2019 - 7/14/2019
Long Island City (NY)

Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan

Performance

7/13/2019
Austin (TX)

2019 Oita Japan Festival #OitaATX

Cultural Event

7/7/2019
Dublin (OH)

Tanabata Matsuri

Exhibition

4/9/2019 - 6/30/2019
Cleveland (OH)

Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art

Film

6/23/2019
Washington (DC)

Horse Beings

Exhibition

3/5/2019 - 6/16/2019
New York (NY)

The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated

Film

6/8/2019 - 6/9/2019
New York (NY)

Alone Across the Pacific

Film

6/5/2019
Cleveland (OH)

Fire Festival

Workshop

5/22/2019 - 5/24/2019
Honolulu (HI)

Japan/Japanese Studies Through a Southeast Asian Lens International Workshop

Exhibition

5/3/2019 - 5/23/2019
Brooklyn (NY)

Yoko Shimizu: Biodesign Lab

Workshop

5/23/2019
Rockford (IL)

Tatami Mat Project

Performance

5/1/2019 - 5/19/2019
Hartford (CT), New York (NY), San Francisco (CA), Vancouver (Canada)

Resonance III

Performance

5/8/2019 - 5/18/2019
New York (NY), San Francisco (CA)

discrete figures 2019

Talk

5/16/2019
New York (NY)

Japanese Contemporary Theatre Magazine Launch and Panel Discussion

Performance

5/12/2019
New York (NY)

Japan Night

Cultural Event

5/12/2019
New York (NY)

Japan Day @ Central Park

Film

5/10/2019
New York (NY)

Afraid to Die

Lecture

5/7/2019
Washington (DC)

U.S.-Japan Relations in Disarray: Who Will Sustain Liberal International Order, and How?

Performance

5/5/2019 - 5/7/2019
Stony Brook (NY), New York (NY)

Garyu

Cultural Event

5/5/2019
New York (NY)

Japanese Cultural Festival

Cultural Event

5/5/2019
New Canaan (CT)

Cherry Blossom Festival – Sakura Matsuri –

Cultural Event

5/4/2019
Brooklyn (NY)

Japanese Art & Culture Celebration and Exhibit

Workshop

4/2/2019 - 4/30/2019
Brooklyn (NY)

Creative Aging: Japanese Bowl Making

Cultural Event

4/27/2019 - 4/28/2019
Boston (MA)

Japan Festival Boston

Film

4/15/2019 - 4/23/2019
Cambridge (MA), New York (NY)

Blood is Dry

Performance

3/21/2019 - 4/15/2019
Bethlehem (PA)

Japanese Dance and Calligraphy Performances

Film

4/5/2019 - 4/14/2019
New York (NY), Cambridge (MA)

Good-for-Nothing

Talk

4/8/2019
Dahlonega (GA)

Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Ritual, Spectacle and Sites of Leisure

Performance

3/29/2019 - 4/7/2019
Menomonie (WI), Grand Rapids (MN), Bemidji (MN), Northfield (MN), St. Paul (MN)

U.S. Premiere Tour of Daichi no Kai with Yuichi Kimura

Cultural Event

4/7/2019
Brooklyn (NY)

Spring Cherry Blossom Festival

Symposium

4/4/2019 - 4/6/2019
Iowa City (IA)

Travel is Life, Travel is Home: Travel and Landscape in Japanese Literature, Art, and Culture

Performance

4/3/2019 - 4/6/2019
New York (NY)

Darkness Odyssey Part 3: Non-Opera, Becoming

Talk

4/6/2019
Delaware (OH)

Conversation with Dr. David Plath and Dr. Ezra Vogel

Performance

4/5/2019
Chestnut Hill (MA)

Tamagawa Taiko Returns to Boston!

Performance

3/24/2019 - 3/30/2019
New York (NY), Washington (DC)

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon The Super Live

Lecture

3/29/2019
New Haven (CT)

Generational Patterns of Political Participation in Japan

Japanese Studies

3/25/2019
Denver (CO)

REPORT: 2019 AAS Annual Conference in Denver, CO

Performance

3/25/2019
Washington (DC)

REPORT: 2019 National Cherry Blossom Festival

Japanese Studies

3/22/2019 - 3/24/2019
Denver (CO)

2019 AAS Annual Conference in Denver, CO.

Performance

3/24/2019
Washington (DC)

The Tale of Genji: A Musical Narrative

Performance

3/23/2019
Washington (DC)

2019 National Cherry Blossom Festival Opening Ceremony

Performance

3/15/2019 - 3/23/2019
Washington (DC), New York (NY)

Cross Transit

Film

3/22/2019
Delray Beach (FL)

The Morikami Film Series: The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Symposium

3/20/2019 - 3/21/2019
Fredericksburg (VA)

Japanese Garden Symposium

Japanese Language

3/19/2019
New York (NY)

Travel Japanese

Performance

3/13/2019 - 3/17/2019
Cleveland (OH), Lakewood (OH), Willoughby Hills (OH)

Wide Horizons Concerts featuring Sayaka Shoji

Film

2/22/2019 - 3/17/2019
New York (NY)

New York International Children’s Film Festival

Performance

3/8/2019 - 3/16/2019
Fairfield (CT), Fairfax (VA)

Kodo One Earth Tour 2019 “Evolution”

Performance

3/13/2019
New York (NY)

The Long Arc of Time

Performance

3/10/2019
Brooklyn (NY)

Kukangendai

Performance

3/10/2019
New York (NY)

Spring Green

Cultural Event

3/10/2019
New York (NY)

Together for 3.11 – 8th Anniversary Memorial

Film

3/6/2019 - 3/8/2019
Washington (DC)

Interactive Workshops: Tochka – Animated Light Magic from Japan

Lecture

3/4/2019
Dahlonega (GA)

Japanese Identity and Naomi Osaka, 2018 US Open Champion

Performance

2/24/2019 - 3/3/2019
Sterling (IL), Viroqua (WI)

Arts Midwest World Fest – Ondekoza

Performance

3/2/2019 - 3/3/2019
New York (NY)

Music From Japan Festival 2019

Lecture

3/1/2019
Boston (MA)

Monetary and Fiscal Policy Challenges in Japan: Implications for IMF Reform

Lecture

2/18/2019
Dahlonega (GA)

Beauvoir’s Japanese Daughters: Tracing the Impact of The Second Sex on Japanese Women

Japanese Language

1/10/2019
New York, NY

Conversation Cafe

Exhibition

9/27/2018 - 12/12/2018
New York, NY

“EARTH MANUAL PROJECT – This Could Save Your Life”

Performance

11/23/2018 - 12/4/2018
Cochabamba, La Paz, Bolivia & Bogota, Columbia

Ryu Goto

Performance

11/14/2018 - 11/22/2018
Panama City, Panama & Loja, Ecuador

Drumspeak – Los Angeles Taiko Ensemble

Lecture

11/14/2018
New York, NY

This Could Save Your Life – Collective Wisdom for Disaster Response

Lecture

11/13/2018
New York, NY

Tackling Disaster Issues Creatively: Cases in Indonesia and Thailand

Literature

10/30/2018 - 11/4/2018
Iowa City (IA), Brooklyn (NY), New York (NY)

Prize-winning Author Sayaka Murata: North American Debut Tour

Japanese Language

10/6/2018
New York, NY

Travel Japanese in Anime Fest @ New York Comic Con

Japanese Language

10/2/2018
New York, NY

Manga + Translation 101

Lecture

9/28/2018
New York, NY

Bumpei Yorifuji on Illustration

Lecture

9/26/2018
New York, NY

Global Guest Lecture: On Emergency Preparedness Solutions by Hirokazu Nagata and Bumpei Yorifuji

Symposium

9/20/2018 - 9/22/2018
Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia and Meiji Japan International Symposium

Japanese Language

7/31/2018 - 8/7/2018
New York, NY

Let’s hang out in Japanese!

Japanese Language

7/12/2018 - 7/26/2018
New York, NY

Kanji and Grammar in Context

Japanese Language

7/10/2018 - 7/24/2018
New York, NY

Special Summer Workshops 2018 ~Let’s make friends in Japanese!~

Performance

4/1/2017 - 3/31/2018
New York (NY) and more

PAJ: 2017 COLLABORATION GRANT

Performance

4/1/2017 - 3/31/2018
New York (NY) and more

PAJ: 2017 TOURING GRANT

Workshop

2/27/2018
New York, NY

“How to Craft Safety” Workshop

Workshop

2/25/2018
New York, NY

“How to Craft Safety” Workshop

Lecture

2/23/2018
Providence, CT

Talk by Hirokazu Nagata and Masashi Sogabe

Lecture

2/22/2018
New York, NY

Talk by Masashi Sogabe

Performance

1/8/2018 - 1/15/2018
Santiago, Chile & Mar del Plata, Argentina

Erena Terakubo Special Trio

Symposium

8/23/2017 - 11/26/2017
Syracuse, NY

That Day Now: Shadows Cast by Hiroshima

Lecture

11/1/2017
New York, NY

Presentation for World Tsunami Awareness Day event

Cultural Event

10/5/2017 - 10/7/2017
New York, NY

NYCC 2017: Hiro Mashima

Workshop

9/16/2017
New York, NY

‘Emergency! Kaeru Caravan’ Workshop

Lecture

9/11/2017 - 9/15/2017
New York, NY

Earth Manual Project: Disaster Preparedness & Constructed Environments, a school-wide, week-long Intensive

Performance

6/20/2017 - 6/29/2017
San Jose, Costa Rica; Santa Ana and San Salvador, El Salvador; Tegucigalpa, Honduras

TAIKOPROJECT “Our Many Sides” Tour

Performance

4/9/2017 - 4/30/2017
New York, NY

BLUE NOTE & THE JAPAN FOUNDATION PRESENT: EAST MEETS WEST BRUNCH

Film

4/1/2017
New York (NY) and more

THERMAE ROMAE

Film

4/1/2017
New York (NY) and more

MAMESHIBA

Film

4/1/2017
New York (NY) and more

Nobody to Watch Over Me

Film

4/1/2017
New York (NY) and more

A Tale of Samurai Cooking – A True Love Story

Performance

2/27/2017 - 3/5/2017
Guatemala City, Guatemala and Managua, Nicaragua

“Bizarre Heroes” Tour by On Ensemble

Lecture

2/23/2017
New York, NY

‘This Could Save Your Life: Creative Design & Disaster Preparedness’ Talk by Hirokazu Nagata

Lecture

11/4/2016
New York, NY

‘This Could Save Your Life: Creative Design & Disaster Preparedness’ Talk by Hirokazu Nagata

Lecture

11/3/2016
New York, NY

Presentation at World Tsunami Awareness Day event

Cultural Event

10/7/2016 - 10/8/2016
New York, NY

NYCC 2016: Yusei Matsui

Performance

9/28/2016 - 10/5/2016
San Salvador & Santa Ana, El Salvador and San Jose, Costa Rica

“Double Violin Fireworks” Ray Iwazumi and Amy Iwazumi

Performance

7/31/2016 - 8/8/2016
Santiago & Easter Island, Chile

Ryu Goto

Performance

4/10/2016 - 5/29/2016
New York, NY

BLUE NOTE & THE JAPAN FOUNDATION PRESENT: EAST MEETS WEST BRUNCH

Performance

3/24/2016 - 3/25/2016
New York, NY

Recycling: Washi Tales

Performance

3/2/2016 - 3/10/2016
Guatemala and Mexcio

Kuni Mikami Jazz Trio

Performance

2/15/2016 - 2/18/2016
Bridgetown, Barbados

“Taiko Masala -Thunder Drummer- Concert in Barbados/ Bridgetown, Barbados

Cultural Event

10/8/2015 - 10/10/2015
New York, NY

NYCC 2015: Masashi Kishimoto

Performance

9/18/2015 - 9/28/2015
Petropolis, Curitiba, Brazil; Santiago, Chile; Fray Bentos, Uruguay

“Tango, Soul, and Passion” – Piano Concert by Junko Ueno Garrett

Exhibition

9/8/2015
New York, NY

Japanese Design Today: Unique, Evolving, Borderless – with Hiroshi Kashiwagi and Yoshifumi Nakamura –

Performance

8/19/2015 - 8/30/2015
Buenos Aires, Argentina; Asuncion, Pirapo, Encarnacion, Paraguay; Salvador, Brazil

TAIKOPROJECT South America Tour 2015 “Surrounding Suns”

Performance

4/5/2015 - 5/3/2015
New York, NY

BLUE NOTE & THE JAPAN FOUNDATION PRESENT: EAST MEETS WEST BRUNCH

Performance

2/2/2015 - 2/12/2015
Guatemala City, Guatemala; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Punta del Este, Uruguay

“The Thunder Drummers of Japan” by Taiko Masala

Performance

2/2/2015 - 2/12/2015
San Salvador & Santa Ana, El Salvador; Panama City, Panama; San Jose, Costa Rica; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

Yumi Kurosawa Koto Concert: The Arts of Sound – Tradition to Contemporary, Collaboration with Tabla

Cultural Event

10/15/2014 - 10/20/2014
Chattanooga (TN), Tuscaloosa (AL)

Obento: Japanese Culture in a Box – Learn to make a Japanese lunch box –

Cultural Event

10/9/2014 - 10/10/2014
New York, NY

NYCC 2014: Takeshi Obata

Performance

6/2/2014 - 6/15/2014
Asuncion & Encarnacion, Paraguay, and Buenos Aires & Cordoba, Argentina

Shiro Otake “Iberoamericana”

Performance

3/23/2014 - 3/30/2014
La Paz and Cochabamba, Bolivia

Ryu Goto

Performance

3/8/2014
New York, NY

A New Generation of Jazz from Japan Featuring Trumpeter Takuya Kuroda and Ensemble

Lecture

2/19/2014 - 2/25/2014
Kingston, Jamaica

Smart Energy Island: Resilience and Recovery Following the Great East Japan Earthquake

Performance

2/9/2014 - 2/12/2014
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Duo YUMENO concert ~Melodies Across the Sea~

Performance

11/21/2013 - 11/29/2013
Recife and Brasilia, Brazil

Yumi Kurosawa Koto Concert: Tradition to Contemporary – with two different traditions from Japan and India

Performance

11/18/2013 - 11/24/2013
Quito, Ecuador

CHiKA

Performance

6/17/2013 - 6/23/2013
Costa Rica and The Bahamas

Kenny Endo and Eri Ishizuka Taiko Drums of Japan

Performance

2/15/2013 - 2/21/2013
New York (NY), Houston (TX)

Yumehina Puppet Company

Performance

1/13/2013 - 1/18/2013
Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados

Contemporary and Traditional Music of Japan and Beyond

Performance

11/26/2012 - 12/3/2012
Jamaica and Dominican Republic

Ikebana Demonstration

Performance

10/1/2012 - 10/7/2012
Nicaragua and Guatemala

The Foundation of Japanese Cooking – Lecture and Demonstration

Performance

9/27/2012 - 10/7/2012
Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Belem and Curitiba)

Infinity ~ Impressions of Japan~

Performance

2/25/2012 - 2/28/2012
New York (NY), Cambridge (MA)

Hoichi the Earless: from Kwaidan Ghost Story

Performance

2/12/2012 - 2/21/2012
El Salvador and Belize

Mitsudomoe (Three Swirls): Mind, Body, and Spirit – Kenny Endo and Miles Endo

Performance

11/21/2011 - 11/28/2011
Brazil (Brasilia and Recife)

Hogaku concert with Koto, Shamisen and Shakuhachi

Performance

10/22/2011 - 11/4/2011
Jamaica, Bolivia, Peru

“Infinity ~An Evening of Japanese Classical Music~”

Performance

9/19/2011 - 9/26/2011
Cuba

Classical music with Japanese artists

Performance

11/27/2010 - 12/1/2010
Jamaica

“An Evening of Japanese Jazz”

Performance

9/19/2010 - 10/2/2010
Cuba, El Salvador and Mexico

Piano concert tour “East Meets West: A World Journey on the Keyboard”

Performance

9/7/2010 - 9/17/2010
Costa Rica, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago and Panama

Hogaku:Traditional Japanese music concert tour

Lecture

8/18/2010 - 8/28/2010
Brazil

Lecture Tour “Telling Our Story: Coalition Building and the Asian American Journalists Association”