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07.10.2024

Jaakko Nousiainen appointed as the new Director of the Finnish Institute in Japan

The Foundation of the Finnish Institute in Japan has chosen DA Jaakko Nousiainen to be the Director of the Finnish Japan Institute for a three-year term starting on January 1, 2025, when the term of the...

01.07.2024

TelepART applications processing on hold until August 12

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06.02.2024

Almost Perfect 2024: Emmi Jormalainen

Emmi Jormalainen has been chosen to participate in the 2024 Almost Perfect -residence program. Emmi Jormalainen is a visual artist and a silent book creator, who has illustrated dozens...

05.02.2024

Runeberg Torte Recipe

Today is the Runeberg Day that pays tribute to Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877), Finland’s national poet. Runeberg was an epic poet who also wrote the lyrics to Finland’s National Anthem. On...

12.12.2023

OPEN CALL – A RESEARCHER´S ROOM

The Finnish Institute in Japan offers a working space for a Japanese or Finnish researcher, whose topic is related either to Japan or to Finland. The working period can be one month or two months starting...

08.12.2023

New project manager of the Finnish Institute in Japan Jenna Tavasti

Photo: Jenna Tavasti The Foundation of the Finnish Institute in Japan has chosen MA Jenna Tavasti as the new project manager of the Finnish Institute in Japan for the next three-year term starting...

10.11.2023

Intimate Entanglements: Contemporary Finnish Fashion

The exhibition Intimate Entanglements: Contemporary Finnish Fashion situates at the intersection of novel politicization and digital disruption of fashion. Through the works of Finnish fashion designers...

30.10.2023

Exhibition Collage: The Eloquence of Paper

Harri Kalha, Ph.D., (b. 1962) is a visual artist as well as a scholar and a non-fiction writer. In the late 1980s Kalha frequented the "drawing school" of the University of Helsinki and participated in...

26.10.2023

Communicating culture and traditions

The annual Finnish-Swedish week Hallå Tokyo! is here! This year the theme is Communicating culture and traditions. Come and join us and celebrate the Finnish-Swedish culture! Hallå Tokyo! 31.10.–3.11.2023 Kindly...

18.10.2023

Clinical Art, Aging and AI? -seminar

The Finnish Institute in Japan continued its aging themed seminar series in 2023. This year’s seminar focused on Japanese Clinical Art and its Finnish counterpart Encounter Art. Thank you to all participants...

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