Japan In Melbourne

Sogetsu Ikebana Exhibition

The Sogetsu Ikebana School is one of the largest and most modern schools of ikebana* in the world. Sogetsu’s aim is to portray ikebana as an enjoyable and creative contemporary art.

The Annual Japan Festival is Coming Back to Town!

We can't wait for the fun to begin!
Our admission ticket giveaway is now over, thanks for those who participated!

Noriko Tadano @ Torquay Bowls Club

Don't miss out on Noriko's upcoming performance!

April Event Calendar 2013

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Help the 2011 Tsunami victims by buying cute handmade accessories!!

Buy a cute Good luck charms Hawaiian Rai Strap. The money raised goes to the victims of the 2011 earthquake. Handmade braided ribbon with kukui seed attached to the strap.

Two years later

A dairy farmer from Iitate village talks about the Fukushima nuclear disaster and their lives now

[Event Report] SAKE DINNER at KOKO

On the 5th of March, a sake dinner was held at the Japanese restaurant in Crown, Koko, as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.

Opening Night in Shepparton - the golden age of Japanese colour prints

Opening night - at last. It had been years since Kirsten Paisley's visit to a Japanese sister city to see an internationally acclaimed exhibition of woodblock prints. An intervening national disaster - the 2011 earthquake - set its fate. It was headed for the Goulburn Valley, and on the way the curator from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston had even stayed in the cargo-hold with the pieces.