Japanese Culture Club

12/01/2017

QUICK REMINDER 💬
We are watching Spirited Away today!
Stop by room D105 at 1 pm 🕐 to join and have fun with us before final week.
Everyone is welcome!
Hope to see you all!

“Spirited Away”
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXuk9QqQkk

11/17/2017

Trivia game today! 🎉🎉🎉
Stop by D-105 at 1 pm to join us. We have SPECIAL PRIZES and SNACKS for everyone!
Hope to see you all!

10/28/2017

The UIUC Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies (CEAPS) Outreach Coordinator, Duane Johansen, will come to campus to show the films and have discussions on the following two Fridays at 1 pm in room D-105:

Nov 10, 2017: “Pictures from a Hiroshima Schoolyard”
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT4gZIM4wNg
Website: http://www.hiroshimaschoolyard.com/

Dec 1, 2017: “Spirited Away”
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXuk9QqQkk

10/28/2017

Chicago trip with JCC:
-Visit Midwest Buddhist Temple
-Attend HOLIDAY DELIGHT - Kodomo Matsuri (Children's festival and Craft bazzar)
-Visit Mitsuwa Market Place

Date: November 11, 2017 [Sat] @ 7 am - 8 pm
Location: meet at Parkland

Open to JCC members & non-members
Free of cost
Limited to 15 spots
Sign up is available now!

For more information, contact via messenger or email:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Midwest Buddhist Temple: http://mbtchicago.org/
Holiday Delight: http://www.jasc-chicago.org/holiday-delight/
Mitsuwa: http://www.mitsuwa.com/locations/chicago/

10/28/2017

The 13th Japan Foundation Film Series presents:
"A Drop of the Grapevine" [directed by YUKIKO MISHIMA | 2014 | 117 min]
Date: Nov 4, 2017 [Sat] @ 1:00 pm
Location: 101 Armory Bldg, 505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign

More information:

A Drop of the Grapevine depicts the relationships between two brothers and the people around them, set against the lush natural environment of Sorachi, Hokkaido.

10/28/2017

The 13th Japan Foundation Film Series presents
"Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky- あかね空"
Date: Nov 4, 2017 [Sat] @ 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Location: 101 Armory Bldg, 505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign

More information:

Akanezora is an empathic period drama, based on Yamamoto Ichiriki's Naoki Award winning novel, starring Nakatani Miki and Uchino Masaaki. The scene is set in Fukagawa in the Edo period, with Eikichi (Uchino Masaaki), a tofu maker who comes from Kyo to Edo, and his Edo-born wife, Ofumi (Nakatani Miki...

10/28/2017

CEAPS Speaker Series presents: "Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies" by Erin Aeran Chung, Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, Johns Hopkins University.
Date: Nov 3, 2017 [Friday] @ 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building (707 S. Mathews Ave, Urbana)

More information:

Until the early 2000s, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan shared restrictive immigration policies, descent-based nationality laws, and exclusionary practices toward immigrants. These analogous policies and practices, however, generated dramatically divergent patterns of immigrant incorporation from the…

10/27/2017

Trivia game today 🎉🎉🎉
We have special prizes for winners. Don’t miss it!
(Location and time: D105 at 1 pm)

10/16/2017

Hello everyone,
We would like to inform that the 20th anniversary of Illinois Prairie Chapter of the Ikenobo Ikebana Society of America is coming up this Sunday, October 22, 2017.
The event will be held at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (500 S. GOODWIN AVE., URBANA, IL 61801)
Our host is the Headmaster Designate, Senko Ikenobo, who will be the 46th Headmaster and is the first woman in that position in the 550 years of Ikenobo Ikebana history.
Students can buy tickets at discounted price here:

"I will continue to focus my heart on each single blossom in the hope for peace in the world."—Headmaster Designate Senko Ikenobo 20 years ago, the Illinois Prairie Ikenobo Society was founded in par

10/15/2017

Fall 2017