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Australia-related books recently published in Japan

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

27 June 2025-
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Exhibition 'Echoes Unveiled: Art by First Nations Women from Australia'

24 June - 21 September 2025
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (Artizon Museum)

Learning Program
27 June 15:30-16:30　18:30-19:30 Gallery Talks by Artists
Maree Clarke, Julie Gough, Yhonnie Scarce, Judy Watson
* Details will be announced on the Artizon Museum’s website at a later date.

Yhonnie SCARCE, Hollowing Earth, 2017, Hand-blown uranium glass, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation © Courtesy the Artist and THIS IS NO FANTASY

Maree CLARKE, Walert – gurn barerarerungar: Tipperary, Ireland Dunstable, Britain Yorta Yorta Trawlwoolway Boonwurrung, Mutti Mutti, Wamba Wamba, 2020-21, National Gallery of Victoria © Maree Clarke

Julie GOUGH, Some Tasmanian Aboriginal children living with non-Aboriginal people before 1840, 2008, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra © Julie Gough

Noŋgirrŋa MARAWILI (Nonggirnga MARAWILI), Bolngu, 2016, Natural ochres on bark, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation © the artist ℅ Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre

Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Tangki – Donkey, 2021, Video, Tjanpi Desert Weavers, NPY Women’s Council © Tjanpi Desert Weavers, NPY Women’s Council

Judy WATSON, red tides, 1997, Pigment and pastel on canvas, Art Gallery of New South Wales
© Judy Watson / Copyright Agency, Image © Art Gallery of New South Wales

Australian Studies Association of Japan Annual Conference

14-15 June 2025
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa (Keio University Hiyoshi Campus)

Australian Ballet Japan Tour 2025 "Don Quixote"

30 May-1 June 2025
Taito-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan)

Australian Ballet Press Release

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Ako Kondo and Chengwu Guo
Photo: Rainee Lantry

Australian Ballet

Australian artists at the 24th (Public Appeal) International ART Exchange Exhibition

6 June-12 June 2025
Taito-ku, Tokyo(Tokyo Metropolitan Museum)

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Sean Williams to perform at the Naviar Records event

6 May 2025
Suginami-ku, Tokyo (Knock Koenji)

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Daniel McDonald's exhibition 'Invisible Dreams'

1-5 May 2025
Suginami-Ku, Tokyo(Momose Shokudo)

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Daniel McDonald

Film "Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party" in Japanese theatres

25 April 2025-

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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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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

Works by Australian artists, Patricia Piccinini, Ron Mueck and Sam Jinks to be exhibited at the 'Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025'

13 April-13 October 2025
Osaka, Osaka (Osaka Culturarium, Tempozan)

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Patricia Piccinini, The Comforter
© Patricia Piccinini Courtesy of Olbricht Collection and the artist

Ron Mueck, Untitled (Man in a sheet)
© Ron Mueck Courtesy of Olbricht Collection and Anthony D'Offay, London
Photo: Joachim Fliegner, Bremen

Sam Jinks, Woman and Child
©Sam Jinks Courtesy of the artist, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney and Institute for Cultural Exchange, Tübingen

Kristian Bezuidenhout performances in Japan

2-6 April 2025

2 April Izumi Hall
3 & 5 April Toppan Hall (sold out)
6 April Mitaka City Arts Center

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Film "Better Man" by Michael Gracey in Japanese theatres

28 March 2025-
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Stuart Skelton to perform in "Parsifal" and "Missa Solemnis" as part of the Spring Festival in Tokyo

27, 30 March, 4 and 6 April 2025
Taito-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan)

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Credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke

Stuart Skelton

Pip & Pop’s installation

19 March-29 April 2025
Kurashiki, Okayama (mt factory tour/Kurashiki Ivy Square Ivy Akarenga house)

mt factory tour vol.14 (20 March-2 April)
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mt room (29 March-29 April)
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Pip & Pop

Kate Crawford to participate in Mori Art Museum's 'MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art' exhibition

13 February-8 June 2025
Minato-ku, Tokyo (Mori Art Museum)

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Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power,1500–2025
2023
Installation view: Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power,1500–2025, Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2023-2024
Photo: Piercarlo Quecchia – DSL Studio
Photo courtesy: Fondazione Prada

Kate Crawford

Film "2040" in Japanese theatres

11 January 2025 -

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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)

Aretha Brown

Saison AIR Partnership 2023 Footscray Community Arts Exchange Project report

20 June 2024
Koko-ku, Tokyo (Morishita Studio)

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Archived video

Footscray Community Arts

Australian Studies Association of Japan 2024 National Conference

15-16 June 2024
Matsuyama University, Himata Campus (Matsuyama, Ehime)

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Archived video

Professor Rodney Smith, University of Sydney "The 2023 Voice Referendum and Current Challenges to Australian Democracy"
English video clip

“Haiku and Australia—borderless, but placeless?”
English video clip

‘Borders and Identities: Impacts of the Covid pandemic’
English video clip

Ngioka Bunda-Heath to take part in the Saison AIR Partnership 2023 Footscray Community Arts Exchange Project

15 August-11 September 2023
Koto-ku, Tokyo (Morishita Studio) adn Sapporo, Hokkaido (Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio)

Artist Talk:
17 August 19:00-20:30 at Morishita Studio

Workshop:
28 August 19:00-21:00 at Morishita Studio

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Archived video

Ngioka Bunda-Heath, Blood Quantum

Photo：Michael Jalaru Torres

What Do Aboriginal Writers Question in Australian Contemporary Literature?

The Final Volume in the Series of Masterpieces of Contemporary Australian Literature
Commemorative Forum for the Publication of "Odyssey of the Horizon" by Alexis Wright

2 June 2023
Online & Shibuya, Tokyo (Club Hillside Salon)

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Archived video

The Masterpieces of Australian Contemporary Literature Series

Alexis Wright

Saison AIR Partnership 2022 Footscray Community Arts Exchange Project report

25 May 2023
Koko-ku, Tokyo (Morishita Studio)/Online

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Archived video (in Japanese)

Australia-related books recently published in Japan

"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