Author: ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office

We visited Hiyoshiya, a long-established company in Kyoto manufacturing wagasa (Japanese umbrellas) for five generations and received training in making wagasa.
The store manufactures the main-style umbrellas, which are used by the Ura and Omote Senke tea ceremony masters, as well as the bungasa, janome-gasa, hahno-jyu, and mai-gasa. We strongly recommend that you visit Hiyoshiya. For more information, click here HIYOSHIYA HOLDINGS (wagasa.com) (24/6/2024)

During the post-ACUNS visit to Kyoto, ACUNS`s past President, Lise Howard, and new President, Franz Baumann, were invited by Kyoto University of the Arts President Sakiko YOSHIKAWA for a working lunch at a traditional Japanese restaurant. They agreed to extend the partnership between the two institutions to hold seminars, conferences, and other events. (23/6/2024)

At the ACUNS Annual Meeting held at the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo on 21 June, Professors Shigeyuki KAZAMA and Kazuya NAKAYAMA of the Kyoto University of the Arts, made their presentations along with Professor SHINYO Takahiro, Special Advisor to the President and Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University and former Ambassador to the United Nations and Germany. The Former Ambassador to UNESCO and SRSG in Afghanistan, Tadamichi YAMAMOTO, and the Ambassador of Afghanistan in Norway, Youssef GHAFOORZAI, commented on their presentations. They were joined by Professor SHENG Hong of Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, China, and Ms. Poulomi BHADRA, Assistant Professor of the Jindal Global University, India. (21/6/2024)

KPC Honorary Chairman Yasushi AKASHI makes an opening remark for the reception hosted by the Kyoto University of the Arts. (20/6/2024)

President Sakiko YOSHIKAWA of Kyoto University of the Arts makes an opening remark while Uryuyama Academic Foundation Chairman Yutaka TOKUYAMA and ACUNS President Lise HOWARD overlook her at the reception hosted by the Uryuyama Academic Foundation. (20/6/2024)

The Councilors of Kyoto Peacebuilding Center, Yasushi AKASHI, Sukehiro HASEGAWA, Takahiro SHINYO, Tadamichi YAMAMOTO, Kae YANAGISAWA, and Miki SUGIMURA held conversations with UNU Senior Vice-Rector Sawako SHIRAHASE, ACUNS President Lise HOWARD and Franz BAUMANN, and Augusto LOPEZ-CLAROS, Executive Director of the Global Governance Forum, and Georgios KOSTAKOS, Executive Director of the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability（FOGGS）. (20/6/2024)

The Annual Meeting of the Academic Council of the United Nations was held from June 20 to 22 June 2024, at the United Nations University Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. About 500 scholars and practitioners of the United Nations activities participated in the conference including nearly 300 from abroad and 200 from Japan. Kyoto University of the Arts presented a “Kyogen” performance on the first day. (20/6/2024)

Hiroshi Senju, former president of Kyoto University of the Arts, delivered a keynote lecture on the first day of the annual meeting of the Academic Council of the United Nations System (ACUNS) at the United Nations University in Tokyo on June 20, 2024. His talk focused on the world-famous Waterfall series and Waterfall on Colors, created after COVID-19. (20/6/2024)

On the opening day of the ACUNS annual meeting held at the United Nations University, Professor Hiroshi SENJU of the Kyoto University of the Arts, who was awarded the Honorary Prize at the Venice Biennale International Exhibition in Italy, presented his representative work, Waterfall. He explained that waterfalls flow due to water and gravity on Earth. (20/6/2024)