The sun rises in India
In keeping with the Indo-Japanese Friendship Year-2007, the Japan Foundation along with the Embassy of Japan, is scheduled to ring in a special year of Japanese events in India. The events were flagged off this Thursday at the Shri Ram Centre by the traditional Japanese drumming Wadaiko, the percussion instruments made of wood from large Zelkova trees.
The great and ancient Japanese form of theatre, Noh, can be seen at Siri Fort auditorium on March 3. Led by Kiyozaku Kanze, representing the 26th generation of the Kanze school of Noh, with a large cast of musicians and actors, the event promises to be unique.
Collaborating with the National School of Drama, Delhi, "Hiroshima Ki Kahani" is set to enact a chilling picture of the nuclear holocaust Japan will never forget. Written by Nakazawa Keiji the cartoonist and adapted by Kijima Kyoh, the play directed by Asada Yutako and Kijima Kyoh will be presented on February 23 and 24 at the National School of Drama in both Hindi and Urdu versions.
A Japanese language contest, Japanese flower arrangement (Ikebana) shows and a book release, the book containing articles which were the outcome of the India/Japan search for Global Roles Conference organised by the Foundation in 2005, are also on the anvil. Nabin Panda has been selected as the first scholar to write a doctoral dissertation in the Japanese language staying for a three-year period at the Japanese Language Institute at Urawa.
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