This year, Sheffield University is putting on Japan Day 2009, a whole day dedicated to people learning about and enjoying Japanese dance, food, culture and so on. If you cast your mind back a year ago you may remember I was part of the Soran Bushi dance team (video here) that performed at the 2008 event.

Well I’m involved this year too, and one of my jobs was to produce some promotional posters for the event. Since this year is (apparently) 150 years of Japan & the UK being linked and working together, we decided to go for a ‘Japan meets England’ theme. So these photos are exactly that; see if you can spot where Japan comes in to each one! (Hint: If you can’t, seek medical attention).

I’ll post the posters when they have been done, so you can all fly over to the UK to join us! Click on any of the images for huge versions!

So as you can see (hopefully) we decided to get one of our exchange students to dress up in a Yukata to take some photos around the university. About half of them are ones of her standing and waving or smiling, and half of them are her doing ‘studenty things’ like waiting at a bus stop.

Here’s one outside the Arts Tower, our biggest building!

I hope these photos are making you think ‘Wow, I really want to go to Sheffield Japan Day 2009!’ They should be. I’m going to be posting some promotional info all over the place, including this blog, in the near future, so please look out for that!

Possibly Related Content:

1. Sheffield Japan Day 2009
2. Soran Bushi @ Sheffield Japan Day 2009
3. Japan Day 2009 – The Big Recap
4. JSoc’s Soran Bushi @ Japan Day / International Culture Evening
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