T.ej – TEDx-style Speaking and Networking

Cuisine and Tea

1. Beyond raw fish: how I fell in love with Japanese food (Ms Fiona Uyema – Food writer and cook)
2. How to make the best tea (Mr Yoshihiro Iguchi – Embassy of Japan in Ireland)Demonstration: Making tea and enjoying it with sweets

AI and Games

1. Shogi and Artificial Intelligence (Dr Akihiro Kishimoto – IBM Research)

Legal and Business

1. Guilty! Life in a Japanese courtroom (Mr Paul Murphy – RTÉ)
2. Do you know…? (Ms Akiko Sato – Enterprise Ireland)

Student Life

1. What I learned from an international exchange program (Ms Miyuki Suetsugu – DCU)
2. Teaching Japanese to foreigners (Mr Koki Minegishi – DCU)

Martial Arts

1. Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu style of Iaido (Mr Nick Johnston)
2. Demonstration: Katori Shinto Ryu kenjutsu (Mr Aidan O’Reilly)

Music, Film and Literature

1. The bamboo and Zen are One! (Mr Philip Horan – Shakuhachi player)
2. Performance: Taiko – An icon of Japanese culture (EJ Taiko Team)
3. Fading and Emerging: Japan’s Women Filmmakers (Dr Jennifer O’Meara – NUI Maynooth)
4. Shakespeare and Fukushima (Mr Paul Murray with Ms Kaori Hirashige and Mr So Onose – UCD)