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September 2 - November 5 Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan:
The avant-garde Japanese artist Yuken Teruya and the Japanese architectural collaborative Atelier Bow-Wow exhibit their works at the Object Gallery.
417 Bourke St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Info: www.object.com.au

November 1 Weekly Japanese Cinema
Yoshimitsu Morita's And Then (1985)
The Japan Foundation, Sydney
Info: www.jpf.org.au

November 2 - November 5 The 2006 JETAA International Conference
hosted by the Sydney JET Alumni Association
Info: www.sydneyjetaa.org

November 3 Kobe and UTS Business Seminar
Grace Hotel - Level 2, 77 York St., Sydney.
Info: www.jetro.go.jp/australia/sydney

November 3, 2006 - January 28, 2007
"Tezuka: the Marvel of Manga": exhibition of the manga of Osamu Tezuka
National Gallery of Victoria
Info: www.ngv.vic.gov.au

November 3 Culture Day: an annual public holiday to promote arts and culture.

November 3
Hakone Daimyo Gyoretsu: a famous annual festival in Hakone City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Info: www.town.hakone.kanagawa.jp

November 4
Japan vs. Australian Prime Minister"s XV: Japanese national rugby team plays an Australian team selected by John Howard in Tokyo.
Info: www.rugbyjapan.com

November 4 - November 5 IKO (International Karate Organisation)
Kyokushin Karate Full Contact World Cup 2006
Sydney Entertainment Centre
Info: www.2006karateworldcup.com.au

November 6 Japan Australia Forum: Session Four:
"Responsibility of Media Reporting" featuring Kiyofuku Chuma from the Asahi Newspaper and Peter Hartcher from the Sydney Morning Herald.
Info: www.asianlang.mq.edu.au/japanese/ja

Mr. Kikofuku Chuma

Mr. Peter Hartcher

November 7 Melbourne Cup

November 8 Weekly Japanese Cinema
Shinichiro Sawai's Bloom in the Moonlight (1985)
The Japan Foundation, Sydney
Info: www.jpf.org.au

November 10 Asia Society-JETRO East Asia Economic Integration Seminar and Luncheon at the Shangri La Hotel, Sydney
Info: www.asiasociety.org.au

November 15 Weekly Japanese Cinema
Shusuke Kaneko's Summer Holiday Everyday (1994)
The Japan Foundation, Sydney
Info: www.jpf.org.au

November 15 Shichigosan: an annual public holiday and day of celebration for boys who have reached the age of three and five and girls of age three and seven.

November 18 10th Japanese Language Performance Day & 7th Creative Art Exhibition
The Japan Foundation, Sydney
Info: www.jpf.org.au

November 19 - November 22 AusBiotech 2006 - National Biotechnology Conference & Business Partnering and Investment Forum: Japan External Trade Organization Exhibition
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre
Info: www.ausbiotech2006.com.au

November 22 AJdX (Australia-Japan dance Exchange) 2006 Event
"A room 3mm off-kilter"
Aichi Prefectural Art Theater in Nagoya
Info: www.aac.pref.aichi.jp/english

November 22 - November 23
Two performances of Tomoko's Story and The Reporters: Japanese-language plays written and directed by Roger Pulvers (English subtitles featured).
NIDA Parade Studio, Kensington, Sydney
Info: www.nida.edu.au/whatson

November 23
Labour Thanksgiving Day: an annual public holiday in Japan.

November 29 - December 8

Swing Girls 2004 Fuji Television / Altamira Pictures / Toho / Dentsu
Swing Girls, featured in the 10th Japan Film Festival.
The 10th Japan Film Festival run by The Japan Foundation, Sydney
Greater Union, George St., Sydney
Info: 10thjff.jpf-sydney.org




December 1 The deadline for Japan Foundation Grant Programme applications.

December 3
Japanese Language Proficiency Test
Info: www.jpf.org.au

December 23 Emperor's Birthday: public holiday in Japan.

December 25
Christmas Day

December 26
Boxing Day

December 31
New Year's Eve




January 1 New Year's Day

January 1
Hastumode: first temple visits of the new year

January 8
Seijin-no-Hi (Coming-of-Age Day): a public holiday and celebration for children who turn 20 in that year and will legally become adults.

January 15
Hamayumi Festival
An 800-year-old "hadaka matsuri"(naked festival) held in Nagasu in Kumamoto Prefecture where massive numbers of men in loincloths jostle with each other for a shinto shrine's straw archery target.

January 26 Australia Day