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•Tatsuzo Shimaoka
With renowned ceramic artist and Living National Treasure Tatsuzo Shimaoka.
•Five Tastes: The Curator's View, Michael Dunn with Alexandra Munroe (Director, JSG)
•Thematic Motifs in Japanese Art & Design, Merrily Baird (Author).
Looking at specific objects in the exhibit, Traditional Japanese Design: Five Tastes, Merrily Baird, author of Symbols of Japan: Thematic Motifs in Art and Design and a consultant for the American Museum of Papermaking in Atlanta, explains the development of symbols throughout Japanese history and discusses thematic motifs encountered in both the classical fine arts and the applied arts.
•Yu-Gi-Oh! The Next Japanimation Sensation?, Alfred Kahn
Alfred Kahn, Chairman and CEO of 4 Kids Entertainment, the company that brought the Pokémon Phenomenon, previews the next Japanimation Sensation: Yu-Gi-Oh! Begun as a manga comic book in 1996, Yu-Gi-Oh! has morphed into a TV show, video games, and "Dueling Monsters," a role-playing card game that already has an underground following among U.S. teenage gamers. Alfred Kahn is also known for another famous toy craze, The Cabbage Patch Kids.
•Yukinori Yanagi & Naoyoshi Hikosaka
Internationally acclaimed artist Yukinori Yanagi, who first became known through his World Ant Farm series in 1990, has addressed themes ranging from transnationality and the instability of nationhood to nationalism. He was joined by Naoyoshi Hikosaka, a conceptual artist coming out of the activist 1960s, in a discussion on how historical and political concerns are reflected in their work.
•Bamboo in Japanese Culture, Nancy Moore Bess (textile and bamboo craftsperson and author).
•Bamboo in the Home, Kenji and Kimiyo Ichinomiya) ISS Associated Architects and Engineers, Co. Ltd.)
•Basketry: The Ultimate Bamboo Craft, Chifuyu Enomoto and Jiro Yonezawa (bamboo master craftsmen)