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Run and presented by the Japan Foundation, the annual film festival features the hottest movies, comprising of many newly released films currently screening in Japan- it is finally here!!

Hiroshima Exhibition with A-bomb Aretefacts

In 1945 the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed instantly by atomic bombs, this exhibition from the City of Hiroshima features artefacts from the bombings and activities to promote a nuclear-weapon-free-world.

Martial Artists Fighting Cancer Together
Join in the international effort of martial artists around the world

Participants of Fight for Life 2010 Will you be there in 2012?

Presented by the Bonsai Society of Victoria.
Come and see these miniature trees for yourself!

This year Folding Australia 2012 is a part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
http://origami.org.au/folding-australia/2012/

Image courtesy of Origami Org

Interested in Japan? Check out one of these events this month!

Image (C) Utagawa HIROSHIGE
Japanese 1797–1858
Nagakubo (Nagakubo)
from the Sixty-nine stations of the Kiso road series (Kisokaidō Rokujūku-tsugi)
Edo period, c.1834 Japan
colour woodblock
25.7 x 38.1 cm (image and sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1910

Japanese born Hiroyasu Tsuri, also known as street artist TwoOne, explores these ideas in work that contributes a unique contemporary insight into one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.
14th – 30th September at Backwoods Gallery, 25 Easey st, Collingwood, Melbourne, VIC.

The Sogetsu 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.

*Ikebana is a traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement

The first female Principal Viola of the Berlin Philharmonic joins with the renowned Kuss Quartet in a landmark showcase of beautiful string quintets.