This installation explores how artisans in Japan utilized materials and handcrafted techniques to forge social relationships and engage with the world around them, featuring lacquerware, ceramics, bamboo baskets, and metalwork from the eighteenth- through twenty-first centuries.

Featuring Japanese bird-and-flower prints and rare Chinese featherwork from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller collection, this exhibition explores the kingfisher’s artistic and cultural significance from the 1700s to the 1900s.

Masako Miki: Midnight March is an experiential world populated by semi-abstracted felted wool sculptures set within a galaxy. Referencing nature, Japanese yōkai (supernatural beings), and Shintoism, Miki creates new mythologies that reflect the complexity of multicultural identities and worlds.

After World War II, Hiroshima University rebuilt with support from universities worldwide, including Harvard, through donations of books and trees. This exhibition revives that bond by showcasing atomic-bombed roof tiles salvaged by Hiroshima students from the Motoyasu River.

Embark on an unforgettable 8-day journey through Japan’s hidden culinary treasures! Delve into traditional dishes that define Japanese culture, beyond the usual guidebook hotspots. This isn’t just a food tour—it’s an immersive adventure that will enrich your understanding of Japan's rich heritage.

[JSB Discount] The Harvard FIlm Archive will screen a series of films by Shinoda Masahiro (1931-2025), including two of his best-known films and several others in which the director’s penchant for visual abstraction matches up with an abrasive and bleak sensibility.

The Japanese Language School of Greater Boston’s library is open on Saturdays during the school year from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Visitors can browse the web catalog, apply for a library card, and borrow up to five books for two weeks.

Join Michelle's hands-on workshops to explore Japanese indigo shibori, a traditional Japanese resist dye technique that uses a variety of textile manipulation methods to produce different patterns when the fabric is immersed in indigo dye.

This Harvard symposium explores how Japan is navigating today’s major policy disruptions, from security and law to business and energy. It brings together experts to examine Japan’s role in a changing world.

This online Harvard talk examines early radiation research in Hiroshima through the lens of psychology and its human aftermath. Featuring Ran Zwigenberg, it explores how the study of radiation shaped understandings of trauma, memory, and postwar life in Japan.

This talk explores how ghosts in Japan reveal anxieties about family, injustice, and political violence. It looks at different “ghost lineages” and what they show about power and community in Japanese history.

A free virtual JET Info Session will be held on March 31, 2026. Attendees can hear from JET alumni about their experiences in Japan, get application tips from a coordinator, and ask questions during a live Q&A.

This Harvard talk revisits the Mongol invasions of Japan by focusing on the diplomatic negotiations that came before the 1274 Bun’ei Campaign. Drawing on Mongol, Korean, and Japanese sources, it explores how Japan, Korea, and the Mongol Empire navigated power and strategy in premodern East Asia.

Anime Boston is a three-day convention held annually in Boston, Massachusetts, under the supervision of the New England Anime Society. Held since 2003, the focus is celebrating and promoting Japanese animation, comics, and pop culture.

[JSB Member Discount] "Family Matters" is a Taiwanese film that follows one family across four time periods as they confront identity, parenthood, and belonging. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ke-yin Pan.

More than 80 years after World War II, only a few hibakusha remain to share their experiences of nuclear survival. This presentation explores how postwar generations, particularly two female Japanese artists, seek to carry forward and reinterpret the memories of Hiroshima.

Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event with author Kanako Nishi and translator Allison Markin Powell to discuss and honor the release of Sakura. They will be in conversation with writer Asako Serizawa.

Celebrate cherry blossom season at the fifth annual Cherry Blossom + Namazake Disco in Boston. The event features fresh unpasteurized sake from four breweries, food by Chef Tiffani Faison, and views of the blossoms beginning to bloom along the Charles River.