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Children’s Workshop! Jungle Theme! 🦥

October 16, 2025

Children’s Workshop! Jungle Theme! As part of the “Finnish-Swedish Culture Week,” the Finnish Institute will host a children’s workshop at Zou-No-Hana Terrace (Yokohama)! We will welcome Finnish-Swedish picture book author…

AI and arts seminar

October 16, 2025

The seminar explores how AI reshapes artistic creation, featuring talks on collaboration, ethics, and identity in art. Speakers include Trivial Zero, Ashizawa Kamome, Dr. Kristiina Jokinen, and Prof. Yoshitaka Mōri.

Trivial Zero 「God Shaped Hole」

October 16, 2025

Trivial Zero collective exhibition, 「God Shaped Hole」— an exhibition where AI stares back. Art, machine, or something in between?

Mirva Watanabe – Researcher Interview

October 1, 2025

Research interview with Mirva Watanabe – doctoral researcher in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo, focusing on her research and experiences in Japan.

Raising the child together – Insights from research on (co)parenting and fertility in Finland, Japan and Portugal

September 22, 2025

This webinar focuses on parenting of today - the challenges new parents face and ways to support gender equal parenting and family wellbeing. As one key issue enhancing gender equal…

Theme day at Osaka Expo – Finnish Anime

September 8, 2025

Introducing our theme day program and creators of the Expo weekend, Finnish Anime

Theme day at Osaka Expo: Into the Forest

September 1, 2025

Introducing our theme day program and creators of the Expo weekend; Into The Forest

Juha Saunavaara – Researcher interview

September 1, 2025

Interviewing Juha Saunavaara – Associate Professor at Hokkaido University Arctic Research Centre about his research and experiences in Japan

The Story of the Finnish Welfare Society

August 29, 2025

Discussion event in Helsinki, Tiedekulma September 10th 2025

Visual novel – a new form of children’s book?

August 28, 2025

Article sharing the background and ideas behind the visual novel project written by Riina & Sami Kaarla

Tiia Kasurinen – Songbird

August 25, 2025

A performance by Tiia Kasurinen in Dance Base Yokohama September 6th

Theme Day at Osaka World Expo: “Creative Ageing: Innovation, Culture, and Inclusion from Finland”

July 11, 2025

Introducing the program with performers and speakers in the Theme Day Creative Aging at Osaka World Expo

Theme Day at Osaka World Expo: “Wisdom, Well-being, and Immersive Art”

July 2, 2025

The Finnish Institute in Japan and the University of Jyväskylä warmly invite you to a special theme day exploring how education, research, and art contribute to well-being and a wiser…

Mikko H. Haapoja – Artist interview

May 6, 2025

"Perhaps the relationship with nature and a certain tranquillity unites Finns and Japanese."

Alusta-pavilion to Tokyo

April 25, 2025

The Finnish Institute in Japan has been awarded a 60 000 euro project grant together with the Suomi/Koivisto architects to produce the Alusta pavilion in Tokyo.

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Science Tuesday: Architecture as a Space for Renegotiating Cultural Relationship with Nature

Event date

24.2.2026 18:00

The weakening of nature connection narrows well-being and a responsible relationship with the living environment, yet architecture can act as a force of repair if its underlying values change. An ethi...

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Santtu Laine: Tokyo Art & Science Research Residency 2025

Publication date

19.1.2026

Read about the experience of our 2025 Tokyo Art & Science Research resident artist, Santtu Laine.

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Erkki T. Lassila – Researcher interview

Publication date

1.12.2025

Interviewing Erkki T. Lassila – A Finnish educational scientist and teacher trainer in Kobe University about his research and experiences in Japan

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Imagine Everyday! Outsider Art Finland Seminar

Event date

4.12.2025 17:00

SEMINAR: Art as a catalyst for societal change – disability employment and socially sustainable business models Date & Time: December 4th at 5-8PMVenue: Tokyo Midtown, Design Hub, Internatio...

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Imagine everyday! Film Screening Event

Event date

30.11.2025 16:00

During the Outsider Art Finland festival in Tokyo, a film screening event will take place in Eurospace Cinema on Sunday 30th November at 4PM, it will feature short films by Maima & Satu Tani and K...

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Marylka Yoe Uusisaari – Researcher interview

Publication date

10.11.2025

Marylka Yoe Uusisaari – Researcher interview Q1 Please introduce yourself briefly. I am Marylka Yoe Uusisaari, a Finnish brain scientist, professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (...

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Children’s Workshop! Jungle Theme! 🦥

Event date

3.11.2025 13:00

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AI and arts seminar

Event date

30.10.2025 14:00

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Trivial Zero 「God Shaped Hole」

Event date

28.10.2025 13:00

Trivial Zero collective exhibition, 「God Shaped Hole」— an exhibition where AI stares back. Art, machine, or something in between?

News

Mirva Watanabe – Researcher Interview

Publication date

1.10.2025

Research interview with Mirva Watanabe – doctoral researcher in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo, focusing on her research and experiences in Japan.

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