The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) in Tokyo announced the launch of a series of debates aimed at presenting how Japanese culture has been assimilated and practised by Romanians living in the Land of the Rising Sun, excelling in fields that draw on motifs specific to Japanese culture, art and civilisation.
The programme "Japan through Romanian Eyes" will debut on Friday at 18:00 at the headquarters of the Romanian Embassy to Japan, with a debate dedicated to the volume "Letters from Cipangu (ed. note - the first name under which Japan was known in Europe). Japanese Stories by Romanian Authors," published by Trei Publishing House in 2016, with illustrations by Dan Perjovschi created during the Aichi Triennale, according to an ICR press release sent to AGERPRES on Wednesday.
Nine of the 14 authors whose texts appear in the volume will participate in the event, both in person and online. The discussion will be moderated by writer Irina Holca, translator and professor of Japanese literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Present at the embassy will be Radu Leca, writer and professor of Japanese culture at Hong Kong Baptist University; Alexandra Mustatea, writer and professor of Japanese intellectual history at Kanda University of Foreign Studies; Carmen Sapunaru-Tamas, writer and professor of Japanese anthropology at the University of Hyogo and Roman Pasca, writer, translator and professor of Japanese philosophy at Akita University. They will be joined online by Raluca Nagy, writer and anthropologist, writer Horea Sibisteanu, Monica Tamas, writer, translator and specialist in comparative literature and contemporary Japanese literature, professor at Hyperion University and Romanian-born writer based in Japan Sabina Yamamoto, awarded in 2024 with the Debut in Prose Prize granted by "Observator cultural" magazine.
In the coming period, two more meetings moderated by Irina Holca are scheduled: on 13 June, a debate on "Translators and translations in the Land of the Rising Sun, bringing together translators from Japanese into Romanian and from Romanian into Japanese" and on 11 July, a debate on "Traditional Japanese arts - ikebana, yuzen, Japanese festivals, matsuri and Japanese gardens." The events will also take place at the headquarters of the Romanian Embassy to Japan.
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