Japan Network Norwich
Japan Network Norwich (JNN) is a non-profit making community group.
It is the hub for anyone who likes Japan, Japanese culture and its people and for the rapidly expanding Japanese community around Norwich.
20/12/2023
Cinema City - Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme Japanese film news in the UK, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, and information on all Japanese releases, screenings and film festivals.
02/07/2023
Hachiko: The world's most loyal dog turns 100 The Akita Inu has been lionised in Japan and beyond as a symbol of devotion and fidelity
18/08/2022
Drink more!? A very odd campaign by the Japanese government....
Japan urges its young people to drink more to boost economy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-62585809
Japan urges its young people to drink more to boost economy The government's tax agency has launched a programme to encourage a new generation of sake drinkers.
16/08/2022
You have to be 100 times funnier to be funny in Danish... 😂. A U.K.-based Japanese standup comedian Kotani Yuriko is in Edinburgh.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/aug/15/you-have-to-be-100-times-funnier-in-danish-the-pitfalls-and-pleasures-of-taking-comedy-across-borders
‘You have to be 100 times funnier in Danish’: the pitfalls and pleasures of taking comedy across borders Just because a joke works in one country or language doesn’t mean it will in another. Globetrotting standups talk about routines that have bombed – and the changes that saved them
09/08/2022
Issey Miyake's fashion in pictures Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake's innovative styles created a global fashion brand.
02/08/2022
Peter Kornicki, "Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and… Peter Kornicki, "Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan" (Oxford UP, 2021)