Australian Embassy
Tokyo
Japan

Upcoming events

 

Upcoming Event Information

Lecture "Anzac, Bradman and the Legal Protection of National Symbols in Australia" by Professor Catherine Bond at the Center for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo

6 December 2025
Meguro-ku, Tokyo (Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo)

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David Doyle to participate in the Able Art Movement 30th forum

29 November 2025
Kyoto, Kyoto (Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art)

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Shiroishi:You are Here directed by Mayu Kanamori

9 November 2025
Shiroishi, Miyagi (Sumaruyashiki)

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Australia House Autumn Meeting 2025

3 November 2024
Tokamachi, Niigata (Australia House)

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Scar Made Beautiful by Sarah Tracton at DesignArt Tokyo 2025

31 October 31- 9 November 2025
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Media Department Tokyo)

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2025, Size: 44cm x 23cm x 5cm Porcelain, gold leaf, perspex, LED.
LED.Lamp : UltraBrite Flexible LED Strips, Warm White, 46W, 4,200 lm
©Sarah Tracton courtesy of the artist

 

Simon Abrahams at Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo 'Meet the Presenters! – Dialogues on Collaboration, Criticism, and Festivals'

31 October 2025
Toshima-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre)

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"Roadgames" by Richard Franklin in Japanese theatres

31 October 2025-
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"Australian fair 2025" at Saitama children's Zoo 

25-26 October 2025
Matsuyama, Saitama (Saitama children's Zoo)

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Australian films to be screened at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2025 Autumn International Short Film Festival

Online Grand Theatre: 22 October-10 November 2025
Minato-ku, Tokyo(Akasaka Intercity Conference Center): “Screentime” on 25 October 2025

Max Barden “The Comment Section|Meat & Livestock Australia

 

Alexandrena Parker “Screentime

 

Jasper Martin “Earwax

 

Glass Beams Japan Tour 2025

21 October 2025
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Spotify O-EAST)

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Hiatus Kaiyote a Special Night in Tokyo 2025

20 October 2025
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Spotify O-EAST)

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Angie McMahon, HIATUS KAIYOTE and Glass Beams at ASAGIRI JAM 2025

18-19 October 2025
Fujinomiya, Shizuoka (Asagiri Arena)

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Angie McMahon Japan 2025

17 October 2025
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (UNIT DAIKANYAMA)

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Stelarc and Oron Catts to take part in a talk event at the Tokyo University of the Arts

13 October 2025
Taito-ku, Tokyo (Ueno Campus)

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Photography by PIERO VITI
Copyright LABOTIV 2014-2017

 

Newest work by Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, and Steve Berrick "PROJECT MRT—Natureless Solution"

11 October 2025 — 23 February 2026
Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM])

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Back to Back Theatre to present "Multiple Bad Things" at KYOTO EXPERIMENT2025

4-5 October 2025
Kyoto, Kyoto (ROHM Theatre Kyoto, South Hall)

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Photo by Jeff Busby

 

Ken + Julia Yonetani's work exhibited at the BIWAKO BIENNALE 2025 "流転〜FLUX"

20 September - 16 November 2025
Omihachiman, Shiga (Machiya Club)

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Spider Tale (2018)

 

Slow Art Collective at the Chiba City Arts Triennale 2025

19 September-24 November 2025
Chiba, Chiba (Chiba Urban Monorail Chiba station 2F)

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Credit: TADA (YUKAI)
 

Australian artists, Wendy Hubert, Yasmin Smith, Robert Andrew, at Aichi Triennale 2025

13 September-30 November 2025
Nagoya and Seto, Aichi (Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum and Seto City)

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Wendy Hubert 
"Yindjibarndi Landscape" 2024

 


Yasmin Smith
"FOREST" 2022
Photo: THE COMMERCIAL, SYDNEY
Courtesy of the artist and THE COMMERCIAL, SYDNEY.

 

Robert Andrew
"Presence" 2019
Installation view: ‘Presence’ IMA Belltower. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

 

Daniel Boyd exhibition Euro Step

6 September-1 November 2025
Kyoto, Kyoto (OSCAAR MOULIGNE)

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Untitled (WYCWTWI), 2025
Oil, pastel, pencil and archival glue on boomerang on board
50 x 40 cm (19.7 x 15.9 in.)

 ©Daniel Boyd courtesy of the artist and OSCAAR MOULIGNE

 

 Dean Bowen Australia: Land, Sky, Birds and Creatures

12 Sep - 3 November 2025
Hachioji City, Tokyo (Hachioji City Yume Museum)

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Masaaki Aihara Photo Exhibition On The Earth

6 Sep - 26 Oct 
Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture(Musee Fukuoka Camera)

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Australian boats on display at the “Humans and Boats: Maritime Life in Asia and Oceania” exhibition

4 September - 9 December 2025
Suita City, Osaka (National Museum of Ethnology)

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Photos:National Museum of Ethnology

 

Shirley Cho's participation in Kamiyama Artist in Residence (KAIR) 2025

28 August-9 November 2025
・Residence:28 August-9 November 2025
・KAIR exhibition:26 October, 3, 8, 9 November 2025
Kamiyama, Tokushima( Kamiyama Artist in Residence)

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Shirley Cho

As far as the eyes can feel
Exhibition view, 2023

 

 

the Adelaidean's digital album UTSURU (Live in Tokyo 2025)

July 2025-
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Adam Elliot's film "Memoirs of a Snail" in Japanese theatres

27 June 2025-
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©2024 ARENAMEDIA PTY LTD, FILMFEST LIMITED AND SCREEN AUSTRALIA

Adam Elliot

 

Documentary film "UKOAPKAS – Cultural Exchange"

April 2025-
Online

 

Jenna Lee to show her work "A house filled with language once more" at the Setouchi Triennale 2025

18 April-25 May, 1-31 August, 3 October-9 November 2025
Tonoshocho, Shozugun, Kagawa (Karatoka)

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Jenna Lee to participate in Setouchi Asia Forum

3 & 5 October

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article-particle (Guyu-Gwa)
Sizes various
Pigment jars, pages of ‘Aboriginal Words and Place Names’, fire, label

Installation view, ALT/TEXT Incinerator Gallery. Courtesy of the Artist @jenna.mlee and MARS Gallery @marsgallery
Photography by Gianna Rizzo @meaty

 

Credit: AnnaKatsanevas

Jenna Lee

 

Aretha Brown's mural painting

December 2024-
Nerima-ku Tokyo (on B1 floor towards Exit 3 at the Shinsakuradai station on the Seibu Yurakucho line)

trailer of 'Yilii', a documentary film on Aretha Brown

Aretha Brown

 

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Australia-related books recently published in Japan

 

"Sixty Chapters to understand Contemporary Australia" edited by Tetsuo Mizukami and Takayuki Shimomura

August 2025-
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"Issatu de Wakaru Australia-shi" (Understanding Australian History in One Book)" edited by Takayuki Nagano

August 2025-
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"Runt" by Craig Silvey

Translated by Natsuko Tanaka, Published by Sayzansha Publications

February 2025-

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"Contemporary Australian Politics" edited by Hiroya Sugita

February 2025-
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"Creature" by Shaun Tan

Translated by Sawako Kishimoto, Published by Kyurudo
December 2024-

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"The Shortest History of Economics" by Andrew Leigh

Translated by Atsushi Kurowa, Published by Toyokeizaishimposha
December 2024-
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"Hiring Humanitarian Entrants as a Migrant Labour Force in Regional Australia" by Kazuhiro Onozuka

December 2024-
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"The Bookbinder of Jericho" by Pip Williams

November 2024-
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"Australian Multicultural Society and Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era" by Ritsuko Kurita

July 2024-
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"HOKARI Minoru's works Book 1 The Living Earth" and "HOKARI Minoru's works Book 2 Anti Minorities History"

April/October 2024-

April 2024- "HOKARI Minoru's works Book 1 The Living Earth"
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October 2024- "HOKARI Minoru's works Book 2 Anti Minorities History"
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Leah Purcell's "The Drover's Wife"/Alana Valentine's "Parramatta Girls"  (Australian play series vol.16) translated by Keiji Sawada

February 2024-

 

Mayumi Kamada ed. "Jiro Muramats and his Family: Portraits of the Family Connecting Japan and Australia" 

January 2024-

Digital edition

 

Archive for past publication before 2023

The Masterpieces for Australian Contemporary Literature Series

 

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