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2011
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Nov 5 Core Research Projects, "Anthropology of Supporting" International Symposium
"Voluntarism in the Age of Global Support:Perspectives from Southeast Asia"
July 25-July 30 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHLXX)
July 30 International Symposium
“Historical Linguistics in the Asia-Pacific Region and the Position of Japanese”
July 28 International Symposium
“Historical Sign Linguistics: Database Architecture and Methodology”
March 11 - March 13 International Symposium
The International Symposium of the National Institutes for the Humanities:
Whaling Cultures of the World: Past, Present, and Future
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2010
Dates Contents
November 7 International Symposium Towards a Society that Lives in Hope:Thoughts on Well-being and Civil Society in Sweden and Japan
October 30 - October 31 International Forum Movie Screening and International Symposium The World of El Anatsui
August 27 - August 29 International Forum The Second International Conference on CultureWear and Diaspora Museum
July 7 Notice of the Passing Away of Professor UMESAO Tadao, the first Director-General of the National Museum of Ethnology

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June 26 International Forum International Forum of Core Research Projects “Human Science of Materiality” National Museum of Ethnology (co-sponsored by International House of Japan)
Repatriation and the Second Life of Heritage: Return of the Masks in Kodiak, Alaska
March 25 - June 22 ［Banner］Thematic Exhibition  "Water and Vessels–From Cupped Hands to the Planet"
March 7 International Workshop Expanded Educational Space from the Perspective of Children’s Well-being
March 6 International Symposium Future Society for Children − Scandinavian Thought and Practice
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2009

Dates Contents
December 7 - December 8 International Symposium "The Future of Anthropology and Ethnological Museum"
September 10 - December 8 Special Exhibitions "Voices from the Land, Visions of Life: Beauty Created by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada"
September 10 Seminar "Museums of Ourselves, Museums of the Other in a Post-colonial World: A View from France"
August 13 - November 24 Thematic Exhibition  "Celebrating Louis Braille's Bicentennial The Universe of Braille Ten-Ten-Ten"
August 11 - August 14 International Symposium"International Symposium on Management and Marketing of Globalizing Asian Religions"
June 21 International Research Forum "Amish Way of Living Together in the 21st Century: From Mutual Aid to International Cooperation"
April 23 - July 21 Thematic Exhibitions "Bon Deities in Tibet"
March 5- March 6 International Symposium "Methodologies in Determining Morphosyntactic Change: Case Studies and Cross-linguistic Applications"
March 19 - June 23 Thematic Exhibitions "The Naxi Lifeworld: Native Painters in Northwestern Yunnan"
March 19 Public Lecture "The Rapidly Changing Indian World: From the Viewpoint of Everyday Life"
March 12 - June 2 Special Exhibitions "When Japan's Tea Ceremony Artisans Meet Minpaku's Collections: Creative Art in Perspective"
February 28- March 1 International Workshop "Anthropology of Life-design and Well-being"
February 27 International Workshop "Thoughts of Well-being and the Co-working of Citizens:Alternative Care Practices in Canada and Denmark"
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2008
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October 23 - November 11, 2008 Thematic Exhibition  "Reviewing African image through historical maps:From the Age of Exploration to the Colonization"
October 17 Public Lecture (Celebrating the Centennial of Japanese Immigration to Brazil)  "Brazil and Japan: Interaction in the Past and Relations in the Future"
October 9, 2008 - March 31, 2009 Thematic Exhibition  "Sparkling Indian Embroidery;The World of Indian Handicraft Based on Mr.B.B.Bhasin's Collection"
September 11 - November 25, 2008 Special Exhibition  "SELF and OTHER: Portraits from Asia and Europe"
March 7 Public Lecture "Minpaku public lecture commemorating the 30th anniversary Searching for a New Life-Design"
March 6, 2008 - April 22, 2008 Thematic Exhibition  "Impressions of MINPAKU"
April 24, 2008 - September 23, 2008 Thematic Exhibition  "Exploring Latin America: A Photographic Exhibition of Early Archaeological and Anthropological Field Research Projects"
March 20, 2008 - September 30, 2008 Thematic Exhibition  "Viewing the World through Coins and Banknotes"
March 13 - June 3, 2008 Special Exhibition  "The Profound Earth: Ethnic Life and Crafts of china"
March 2 Open Forum"Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa: From Memories to Histories"
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2007
Dates Contents
December 1-2 The 5th International Workshop on Development Cooperation: "International Cooperation of the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) and NGOs in the Netherlands and World Bank"
November 14, 2007 National Museum of Ethnology holds its 30th anniversary commemoration
September 13 - December 11 Special Exhibition  "The Great Ocean Voyage: Vaka Moana and Island Life Today"
October 12 Public Lecture "National Museum of Ethnology’s public lecture in commemoration of the 30th anniversary Global Cuisine: an Anthropological Perspective"
October 4, 2007-December 18, 2007 Thematic Exhibition  "Creating and Communicating with Seed Beads"
September 6 - September 25 Thematic Exhibition  "Ainu Culture Depicted in Rare Books of MINPAKU Library"
July 26, 2007 - March 4, 2008 Thematic Exhibition  "Collecting the World: Minpaku Staff Selection"
March 15 - June 5 Special Exhibition  "Pilgrimage and Sacred Places: A Voyage of Self Discovery"
March 6 On the Occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the National Museum of Ethnology
March 2 International Symposium  "Living in Japan: Migrant wisdomand vitality"
February 25 International Symposium  "Socialist Modernization in Mongolia: A Reappraisal of Simukov and His Works"
January 18-19 Colloquium "Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa: With Special Reference to the Situation of Mali, Tanzania, and Madagascar"
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2006
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December 3 International Symposium "Batik and Print: Globalization of designs and techniques"
November 23-24 International Symposium on Development Aid: "Development Cooperation of Norway: University of Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institute and NGOs"
October 27 Public Lecture"Toward a multicultural co-existence: Cases fromAustralia"
April 12 Nepal Photo Database
March 16 - May 30 Special Exhibition "Minpaku Kids' World: Objects as Ties between Children and Their Society"
March 3 Public Lecture"In the Forefront of Performing Arts Documentation: Films and the Transmission of Cultural Properties"
February 3-4 International Symposium "Written Cultures in Mainland Southeast Asia"
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2005
Dates Contents
November 12-13 The Fourth International Workshop on Development Aid "The Roles of Anthropologists / Sociologists in the Canadian International Development Agency and the World Bank: Social Assessment, Participant Development and Social Safeguards"
November 1 Relaunch English Website
October 28 Public Lecture"Changing Models of the Family: Comparative Perspecitves from China, Korea and Japan"
September 8 - December 6 Special Exhibition "Fashioning India"
June 19 International Symposium "Frontier Modernity: Inner Mongolia in the Twentieth Century"
June 19 The Third International Workshop on Development Aid "Development and Gender 2: Land and Population Controls in Rural China"
March 24 International Symposium "Religions, Secularism and Public Sphere"
March 23 Research Dissemination Program "Remembrance of Disasters; Ethnography as a Tool for Community Disaster Management"
March 17 - June 7 Special Exhibitions "More Happy Every Day"
February 20 The Second International Workshop on Development Aid "Development and Gender: Theories and Issues"
January 13-15 International Symposium "Indigenous Movements in Plural Societies: The Canadian Inuit and the Ainu of Japan"