Australian Embassy
Tokyo
Japan

Upcoming events

 

Upcoming Event Information

 

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

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

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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

 

Gracie Clark and Ellen Lekhtma, Australian Ballet School to perform at Stars of Today Meet Stars of Tomorrow – Youth Grand Prix Japan Orchard Gala

12 October 2025
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Bunkamura, Orchard Hall)

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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

 

Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] × Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo
Future Ideations Camp Vol. 7 Keynote Lecture 2
Elena Knox "The Techne, the Daimon, and the Unknown Superfactor!"

2 October 2025
Toshima-ku, Tokyo ( Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre)・online

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©Midori Kawano

©Lindsay Webb

 

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

 

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-
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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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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

 

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

 

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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