by minon_admin | Sep 19, 2018 | ChinaRA, Features, News, Outreach
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship and the 50th anniversary of a proposal calling for normalization of relations between China and Japan, delivered by Min-On founder Daisaku Ikeda—then president of Soka Gakkai—on...
by Peter | Mar 19, 2018 | ArgentinaRA, Features
Before embarking on The Soul of Maestros nationwide Japanese tour, Fabio Hager visited the Min-On Culture Center in Tokyo on January 16 with the members of his special ensemble. After being warmly welcomed by staff members of the Min-On Concert Association, Fabio...
by Peter | Mar 19, 2018 | ArgentinaRA, Features
Argentina—one of the most geographically distant nations from Japan—is a country that the Min-On Concert Association has engaged in cultural exchanges with since its early history. After launching the Min-On Tango Series in 1970 with an original installment by the...
by Peter | Mar 19, 2018 | Features, United States of AmericaRA
Jazz was born in the African-American communities of New Orleans in the United States, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since then, many distinctive styles of jazz have appeared—free jazz emerged in the early 1950s, modal jazz followed in the late...
by Peter | Dec 21, 2017 | Features
On the evening of October 27, at the mid-way point of their Japan tour, the Bahrain Art Troupe took to the stage at Nakano Sun Plaza Hall for their Tokyo premiere. The capacity audience included H.E Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmad Al-Khalifa, Director of Museums &...
by Peter | Dec 21, 2017 | Features
We are always driven in creating ways to reach one another and build bridges between us. This may take time, meanwhile more immediate connections may be established through culture, both in its tangible and intangible elements. Culture in all its forms is like magic...
