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What is Normal?: In Conversation with Author Sayaka Murata at japan Foundation Toronto

Events EVENTS & COMMUNITIES 03/21/2019 by Maari Sugawara（Managing Editor）

Sayaka Murata, winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 2016 for her novella, Convenience Store Woman, which became her debut in English in 2018, has been asking a question in all of her work—what is […]

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RUGBY WORLD CUP IN JAPAN（SEP.20〜NOV.2）

Events EVENTS & COMMUNITIES 02/13/2019 by Editors Picks

It’s been a long and at times rocky road for Canada to qualify for Rugby World Cup 2019, but coach Kingsley Jones wouldn’t have had it any other way. Having lost a home-and-away series to […]

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【ROM】 Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world（〜August.5）

Events EVENTS & COMMUNITIES 02/05/2019 by Editors Picks

About Encounter personal perspectives on the exile, dispossession, and internment of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s through a series of artworks interspersed throughout the Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada. This installation features contemporary artists who […]

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The Cultural Dimensions of Packaging in Japan（Feb.27）

Events EVENTS & COMMUNITIES 02/03/2019 by Japan Foundation

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 […]

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Landmarks From Before It Was Called Tokyo: Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo（〜Apr.13）

Events EVENTS & COMMUNITIES TOP STORIES 02/02/2019 by Japan Foundation

Landmarks From Before It Was Called Tokyo: Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo 広重作江戸名所百景展 Co-presented by Stuart Jackson Gallery & The Japan Foundation, Toronto Original print works of One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, […]

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