Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café #27 on 17 July! Three fascinating talks from novelist Keiichiro Hirano, literary scholar Kimiyo Ogawa, and historian/literary scholar Tom Ue. More information: tokyohumanities.org #TokyoHumanitiesCafe #Humanities #TokyoEvents

Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café #27 on 17 July! Three fascinating talks from novelist Keiichiro Hirano, literary scholar Kimiyo Ogawa, and historian/literary scholar Tom Ue. More information: tokyohumanities.org #TokyoHumanitiesCafe #Humanities #TokyoEvents

Thanks to Geoff Baker, W. David Marx, Keiko Nishimura, and Sven Saaler for their fantastic presentations at Tokyo Humanities Café last night. Next THC is on 17 July and features Keichiro Hirano, Kimiyo Ogawa, and Tom Ue (19:00-21:00 Impact Hub Meguro). More details soon!

Tokyo Humanities Café 25 will take place on Friday, 6 March 2026 at 7 pm at ImpactHub Tokyo Meguro (hubtokyo.com). Join us for talks on topics Jane Austen, Poetry, the Opening of Japan and Japanese statues: www.tokyohumanities.org

Thank you to Richard Evanoff, Patrick Galbraith, Chelsea Szendi Schieder, and Megha Wadhwa at Tokyo Humanities Café #24! Next THC is 6 March Impact Hub Tokyo featuring Professor Ros Ballaster on Jane Austen (details soon).

Please come to Tokyo Humanities Café 24 for a series of engaging, 15-minute accessible talks from top experts on topics including Indian food in Tokyo, otaku, transculturalism, and graphic novels.

Thanks to our wonderful speakers - Ian Haywood, Mayu Koike, Taylor Mignon, and Mariko Nagai - for their wonderful presentations at Tokyo Humanities Cafe 23. We will be back in a few months!

Please come to the Meiji-Edinburgh Frankenstein Symposium Saturday 18 October 2025. For details, please see poster and www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein.... 明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム 2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。 詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください： www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein...

15-min talks on Hokusai & British art, forgotten lives, online love & visual poetry! Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café 23 – Fri 24 Oct 2025, 19:30-21:15 @ Ryozan Park Lounge (Sugamo): www.tokyohumanities.org.

Thanks to our wonderful speakers Yuiko Asaba, Ashok Malhotra, Wing Tek Lum and Yuri Tanaka! The next Tokyo Humanities Café will be on Friday October 24 from 19:30 at Ryozan Park Lounge Sugamo (subject to change). Please see: www.tokyohumanities.org/about.html

Tokyo Humanities Café 22 is coming up on Friday, 11th July, from 7:30pm (finishing around 9:15) at Ryozan Park Lounge, Sugamo. For more information, please visit our website (www.tokyohumanities.org). Please join us!

Tokyo Humanities Café 22 will feature a Tango violin duo performance, a reading from one of Japan’s leading young poets plus talks on Imperial Science and Honolulu’s Chinatown. Please see our website for details: www.tokyohumanities.org

Thanks to our wonderful speakers Derek Attridge, Xinqi He, Mary A. Knighton and Eric Margolis for their fabulous talks on A. A. Milne, linguistic labels, insects in Japanese film, and Japanese translation!

After a hiatus during the pandemic, Tokyo Humanities Cafe is back with free events for the intellectually curious — no academic background required.

“The humanities are what it means to be human”. Thanks to "Japan Times" for this wonderful article about Tokyo Humanities Café: www.japantimes.co.jp/community/20.... Our next event takes please Friday 25 April, Ryozan Park, Sugamo. Please see: www.tokyohumanities.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

Delighted to announce Tokyo Humanities Café 21 will feature a talk from world-leading literary critic and theorist Derek Attridge, as well as fantastic presentations from Xinqi He, Mary Knighton, and Eric Margolis. Please see www.tokyohumanities.org.

“Reimagining the Pacific: Towards an Oceanic Intellectual History” takes place at University of Tokyo, Komaba campus, 13-14 March. Please see here for details: www.gsi.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/event/6110/

“Reimagining the Pacific: Towards an Oceanic Intellectual History” takes place at University of Tokyo, Komaba campus, 13-14 March. Please see here for details: www.gsi.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/event/6110/

Tokyo Humanities Café will celebrate our TWENTIETH EVENT on Friday 31st January 2025 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge. This time we have cyberpunk, poetry, third culture kids, and cookie art!

Thanks so much to our fantastic speakers at Tokyo Humanites Café last night – Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Heidi Lee, Gabriel Richard and Anna Lindemann.

Intermedia Symposium Keynote speakers: Yohei Igarashi (University of Connecticut) and Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (Duke University) Place: Meiji University, Surugadai Campus, Academy Common 308E Date: Sunday December 15 2024 Time: 10:30-17:15

インターメディア・シンポジウム 基調講演者 五十嵐洋平（コネチカット大学）、アンヌ＝ガエル・サリオ（デューク大学） 場所 明治大学駿河台キャンパス アカデミーコモン308E 日時 2024年12月15日（日 時間：10:30～17:15

Tokyo Humanities Café 19 Place: Ryozan Park, Sugamo, Tokyo Date: Monday December 16 2024 Time: 19:30-21:30(ish) 東京人文カフェ19 場所 巣鴨・霊山公園 日時 2024年12月16日（月 時間：19:30～21:30（予定）