Posted on February 5, 2010. Filed under: anime, Japan, manga | Tags: gyaru, Hiroshima-ben, Japan Foundation, Kansai-ben, Learn Japanese, ojosama, Osaka-ben, romantic Japanese, yanki |
Learning Japanese? Check out this new Japan Foundation website.
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Posted on July 8, 2009. Filed under: anime, Creating, designing, Japan, manga, needlework, writing | Tags: Helen McCarthy workshops, Japan Foundation, Japan-UK 150, katakana hiragana sampler, Manga Cross Stitch, needlecraft, Stitched Up! From Sashiko to Manga |
Manga Cross-Stitch workshops at the Japan Foundation helped to launch my latest book. The idea is to demolish prejudices, break barriers and build bridges, one stitch at a time.
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Posted on July 6, 2009. Filed under: anime, Creating, designing, Japan, manga, needlework, writing | Tags: anime, Beginners Guide to Japanese Animation, cross stitch, Ilex Press, Japan Foundation, Julie Jackson, manga, needlecraft, SFX, Steve Kyte, Subversive Cross Stitch, Tim PIlcher, Victoria and Albert, workshop |
My latest book, Manga Cross-Stitch, finally hit British bookshops and Amazon.co.uk last week. It should have gone on sale in mid-June, but the Gods of Shipping had other ideas: hopefully they’re now appeased, and the U.S. launch next month will go ahead without a hitch. I’ve already seen the first review – in the August 2009 [...]
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Posted on July 3, 2009. Filed under: appearances, history, Japan, travel | Tags: Japan Foundation, Michele Walker, quilting, Sado, sashiko, social history, Takeji Iwamiya, women's history |
A lecture at the Japan Foundation shone new light on the vanishing world of Japan’s rural sashiko makers.
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