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Kyoto Art Journey 2020 - The Harmony of Zen and Art in Kyoto

This year, the art journey to Kyoto was about exploring the artist's evolution from when they are a student to how they grow a full-fledged artist.
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Art for Breakfast 2020: Kenryou Gu | Artist

Kenryou Gu discussed about his works and evolution as an artist in a discussion titled, “We May Never Understand Art”. In a year without travel, he talked about how he got here and where he is headed as a young artist.
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Special Program : Author and poet Mieko Kawakami (BREASTS AND EGGS) in conversation with author Roland Kelts (JAPANAMERICA)

Jointly with International House of Japan, it was an honor to have Akutagawa-sho winning author and poet, Mieko Kawakami and author Roland Kelts for our first program on literature.
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Prescreening of History Channel's "Tokyo Legacy"

Thanks to our friends at A&E, we had our first screening event, "Tokyo Legacy"  before it was aired on History Channel from December 20.  Program was introduced by A+E Networks Japan, General Manager, John Flanagan.
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The Evolving Landscape of Asian America – 55th Anniversary of the Immigration & Nationality Act (Japan)

Emerging from the margins to starring in the mainstream, certain heroes arising from these cultural communities have proudly and gracefully represented this collective hyphenated identity of what it means to be “Asian American”.
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ASPST Breakfast with Dr. Kumi Yokoe

Asia Society Japan Center will welcomed, Dr. Kumi Yokoe of Toyo University’s Department of Global Innovation Studies for a conversation titled, “The 2020 U.S. Elections and Potential Challenges to US-Japan Relations”.
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ASPST Breakfast with Dr. Mieko Nakabayashi

Dr. Mieko Nakabayashi of Waseda University’s joined the ASPST U.S. Presidential Election series breakfast to give us the full picture for the race to the White House.
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Asia Society Policy Salon Tokyo | Breakfast with Dr. Ken Jimbo | Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University

It was an honored to have, Dr. Ken Jimbo of Keio University taking us through Japan’s foreign and security strategies for the new administration.
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[WEBCAST] Art for Breakfast 2020: Patricia Bjaaland Welch

We were delighted to have Patricia Bjaaland Welch to our virtual Arts for Breakfast 2020 taking us on a tour of the Asian Civilasation Museum in Singapore.
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[WEBCAST] Art for Breakfast 2020: Frank Feltens, PhD, The Freer Gallery of Art

This webinar is the first of series of presentations featuring Japanese and Asian art collections located outside Japan. Dr. Frank Feltens introduced Charles L. Freer and his collection from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.