Activities

8th of March 2012
Casa Asia Headquarters, Av. Diagonal, 373
Barcelona
Free open session to the public with limited capacity.
Make your registration filling in the form.

6.30 pm - At this lecture open to the public, speakers will present the results of the debate generated during the symposium regarding the learnt lessons of the Japanese case and how IT has changed the way we perceive natural disasters. The lecture will give a broad vision of journalism in crisis situations.

Welcome speech:
Amadeo Jensana, Director of the Department of Economy and Business, Casa Asia.
H.E. Hidehiro Tsubaki, General Consul, General Consulate of Japan in Barcelona.
Hiroyuki Ueno, Director of the Japan Foundation of Madrid.

Speakers:
Yoshio Sugimoto, Emeritus Professor, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia.
Aiko Doden, NHK Journalist, Japan.
Takemura Shinichi, Social Media Designer, Professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan.

Moderated by:
Vicenç Sanclemente, Former correspondent for TVE in Havana and Asia-Pacific. TVE-Catalunya reporter.

9th of March 2012
Sala Alcalá 31, c/ Alcalá, 31
Madrid
Session open to the public. Free admission with limited capacity.

6.00 pm - At this lecture open to the public, speakers will present the results of the debate generated during the symposium regarding the learnt lessons of the Japanese case and how IT has changed the way we perceive natural disasters. The lecture will give a broad vision of journalism in crisis situations.

Welcome speech:
Teresa Gutiérrez del Álamo, Director of the Casa Asia Centre-Madrid
Hiroyuki Ueno, Director of the Japan Foundation of Madrid.

Speakers:
Yoshio Sugimoto, Emeritus Professor, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia.
Aiko Doden, NHK Journalist, Japan.
Takemura Shinichi, Social Media Designer, Professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan.

Moderated by:
Georgina Higueras, journalist and writer.

More information: http://www.fundacionjapon.es/userfiles/file/Archivos%202012/3.11%20Japon%20/MesaPercepciones.pdf

9th of March
Casa Asia Headquarters, Av. Diagonal, 373
Barcelona
Free admission with limited capacity.

On the 11th of March 2011 Japan lived through the most devastating tsunami of its most recent history. The world held its breath waiting for the news from the area, where informers from all over the world that were bold and frightened. At this roundtable, Lluís Caelles and Sergi Vicente, TV3 journalists, will discuss the experiences they lived those days that are captured in the book Fukushima: crònica d’un tsunami nuclear.

Delivered by:
Lluís Caelles, editor of the International desk of TV3, co-author of the book Fukushima: crònica d'un tsunami nuclear.
Sergi Vicente, correspondent of TV3 in Beijing, co-author of the book Fukushima: crònica d’un tsunami nuclear.

Presented:
Josep Casaus, Communication Director of Casa Asia.
Rosa Marqueta, Head of News of Televisió de Catalunya.
Hidehiro Tsubaki, General Consul of Japan in Barcelona.

More information: http://www.casaasia.es/actividad/detalle?id=205659

10th of March
Casa Asia Headquarters, Av. Diagonal, 373
Barcelona
Session open to the public. Free admission with limited capacity.
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One year after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that stroke Japan on March the 11th 2011, the situation in the affected areas has dramatically improved. Yet normality still requires a longer effort to settle in the heart of the people, especially the children of Tohoku. Casa Asia and ESADE Aid for Japan bring together Spanish children and Japanese children resident in Barcelona, together with their families, in a day of commemoration and solidarity which will help to better understand Japanese culture as well as create closer ties between the youngest generations of both countries.

 

5pm

Presentation: volcanos, earthquakes and tsunamis between legend and reality:

• Mythological stories of earthquakes and volcanos in Japan and the world.
• The tsunami in Rikuzentakata and the Satosan story.
  Given by Renata Piazza, Casa Asia.

5.30pm

The reconstruction, one year later: the spirit of the samurai:

• Demonstration of martial arts given by the Master Kozaburo Kagawa.

5.45pm

Let's paint a wall mural: we'll send a friendship message to children in Tohoku.

6.00pm

Workshops of Japanese popular culture:

• Anime music (Japanese cartoons).
  Performed by Yoko Suzuki (piano) and Alessandra Ivanoski (violin), in collaboration with Japanese students of the Japanese School in Sant Cugat and Japanese language Spanish students in Barcelona.
• Origami or papiroflexia.
  Given by Mihoko Ono

11th of March at 6.46am
Japan, one year later: Minute of Silence
Plaça del Mar (in front on Buenas Migas, Barceloneta)

The natural disasters that battered the region of Tohoku and Kanto on the 11th of March 2011 killed more than 20 thousand people. Currently, in the affected areas there is still a lot to be done to recover life before the catastrophe. One year after the tragedy, Força Japó organises a minute of silence to show solidarity with the victims and to have the chance to think about what can be done in the future. Parallelly, in Paris a commemoration event will be held at the Place du Trocadéro. They will be broadcast live by the Japanese television so the inhabitants of the affected areas can receive the message.

From the 8th to the 31st of March
Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya, Plaça Nova, 5
Barcelona
Free admission

“RESET 11.03.11#New Paradigms” in Barcelona is a Japanese contemporary architecture exhibition that brings 35 architects of different generations together, from students to master architects such as Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito and Kengo Kuma. 46 projects that have been created and carried out for the reconstruction of Japan are presented that look towards the future.

More information: RESET programme

From the 24th of March to the 26th of May
Casa Asia Headquarters, Av. Diagonal, 373
Barcelona
Free admission with limited capacity.

In consists of a film series made up of 10 films, made between 2011 and 2012, where the effects of these natural disasters are approached, as well as the need for alternatives to the excess of confidence in the scientific culture and market economies. The reach of the disaster that happened last March in Japan has been a lesson for the planet. Progress has a limit marked by Nature, as well as its resources. The 10 films show particular stories, local and global visions, and landscapes of the desolation as well as signs of hope. With this series the purpose is to inform and educate in a preventive environmentalism, and to show the reconstruction capacity of a country like Japan.

Saturday, 24th of March at 7.30pm
3.11 A Sense of Home Films
Dir.: Victor Erice, Naomi Kawase, Jia Zhangket, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bong Joon Ho, Pedro González Rubio, Catherine Cadou, etc. (2011. 75’, VOSE)

Saturday, 31st of March at 7.30pm
FUKUSHIMA: Memories of the Lost Landscape
Dir.: Yojyu Matsubayashi. (111’, VOSE)

Saturday, 14th of April at 7.30pm
Light Up Nippon
Dir.: Kensaku Kakimoto. Música: Ryuichi Sakamoto (2011, 28’, VOSE)
Snow After the day
Dir.: Akatsuki Otake. (2011, 60’, VOSE)

Saturday, 21st of April at 7.30pm
Tokyo Drifter
Dir.: Tetsuaki Matsue (2011, 72’, VOSE)

Saturday, 28th of April at 7.30pm
The Sound of the Waves
Dir.: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Ko Sakai. (156’, VOSE)

Saturday, 5th of May at 7.30pm
Fukushima Hula Girls
Dir.: Masaki Kobayashi. (2011, 100’, VOSE)

Saturday, 12th of May at 7.30pm
WANKO~The Story of Me, My Family and My Dog
Dir.: Isamu Nakae. (2011, 123’, VOSE)

Saturday, 19th of May at 7.30pm
Quartet!
Dir.: Junichi Mumura. (2012, 118’, VOSE)

Saturday, 26th of May at 7.30pm
Eclair
Dir.: Akio Kondo. (2011, 107’, VOSE)

From the 7th to the 17th of March
Sala Alcalá 31
c/ Alcalá, 31
Madrid
Free admission with limited capacity.

The Cultural Centre of the Japan Foundation in Madrid organises an event to commemorate the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami of last 11th of March. This way the Japan Foundation would like to express its condolence and to express its gratitude to the Spanish people for the received support. The programme is divided in two blocks: the first one, under the title “Impact of the Disaster”, includes the screening of five documentary films curated by the specialist in Japanese cinema Fujiko Asano, as well as a roundtable on Friday 9th of March called “Perceptions of the Disaster”, and several talks with the directors of the chosen films and specialists in Japanese cinema.

In the second thematic block, called “Initiatives for Reconstruction”, the screening of two documentaries and a famous fiction film are included, Hula Girls, which under the title Getting over the Disaster share the same topic. Nowadays, efforts are still being made by those affected and by people away from the disaster, to support the affected areas and their path towards recovery and reconstruction. The documentaries Light Up Nippon and Fukushima Hula Girls will show us these efforts made to get over adversity and to turn them into opportunities. This will also be the topic of the roundtable “A New Urbanism” on the 16th of March.

More information at the website of the Japan Foundation: http://www.fundacionjapon.es/Evento.sca?eve_id=215&id=8