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POLSKI | 日本語
 Main events of the Centennial Wave program:
 The Japanese Festival on the Slodowa Island "Nami Airando" | 31.08.2019 | Wyspa Słodowa (Island in the very middle of the city)
Festiwal of the Japanse Culture "Nihon no Nami" | 6-8.09.2019 | Impart Theatre
Japanese Martial Arts Festival "Nami Budō Matsuri" | 15-22.09.2019 | Sports Hall at the Elementary School nr 84
The Year 2019: The 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Poland and Japan.
This year we celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Poland and Japan. At the date of March 22nd 1919 Japan became one of the very first countries to acknowledge the independence of Poland, just after France (February 24th) and England (February 25th).
Our history was connected by small number of common episodes. Unaware of the mutual existence, we struggled parallel with Mongol invasion commanded by Genghis Khan’s grandsons: Batu Khan in Poland and Kublaj Khan in Japan.
Later on Poland and Japan contacted consciously as in the case of Bronislaw Pilsudski (brother of Jozef Pilsudski the head of renewed Polish state) who studied Ainu ethnology and language and created the first Japanese-Polish Society after the Russo-Japanese war of 1905. The war created for the first time a common political interest between Poland and Japan.
The friendly attitude between Poland and Japan was strengthened by the rescue of 763 Polish children from Russian Siberia, who in 1920-22 got their second home in Japan.
Although the Second World War placed us on the opposite sides of the global barricade, in the national imaginations we have not become enemies.
Japan with its after war recovery and growth, became a desirable example to be followed by Poland freed of the communist oppression in 1989. Just at the time when Polish 3rd Republic begun the Japanese Heisei era was staring.
The memories of the 30 years of Heisei inevitably associate with the Nintendo and PlayStation, the magnificent animations of Ghibli Studio and the fashion for sushi. We have been observing and been involved in the unusual expansion of Japanese pop-culture.
In Poland this was a time of growing popularity of the Japanese language and Japanese culture by and large. For us it was the time of the opening for the world, and for the world the end of the Iron Curtain.
We enter the Japanese Reiwa era as the friendly countries with growing cultural and economic exchange and most of all with multiplying personals links between Polish and Japanese citizens.
To greet the anniverasry a special program coordinated by Polish-Japanese Friendship Foundation NAMI will be organized in Wroclaw. The culmination is scheduled for September and consist of three festivals:
The Japanese Festival on the Slodowa Island "Nami Airando" | 31.08.2019 | Wyspa Słodowa (Island in the very middle of the city)
Festiwal of the Japanse Culture "Nihon no Nami" | 6-8.09.2019 | Impart Theatre
Japanese Martial Arts Festival "Nami Budō Matsuri" | 15-22.09.2019 | Sports Hall at the Elementary School nr 84
 Honorary patronage:
The celebration is held under the honorary patronage of:
– The Embassy of Japan in Poland
– The Mayor of Wroclaw
The organizers are authorized to use 100-years Poland+Japan logo for the events
Suported by:
The celebration is supported by the City of Wrocław
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Wrocławskie Centrum Rozwoju Społecznego
EU・ジャパンフェスト日本委員会 EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee
Contact us:
Fundacja Przyjaźni Polsko-Japońskiej NAMI (Polish-Japanese Friendship Foundation NAMI)
ul. Legnicka 65, 54-206 Wrocław
Fundraising, Volunteers:
– Grażyna Pogorzelska: grazyna.pogorzelska@fundacja-nami.pl, mobile (+48) 784 694 592
Program, Media:
– Maciej Pogorzelski: maciej.pogorzelski@fundacja-nami.pl, mobile (+48) 502 796 050
Organization, Stands, Shops:
– Julian Górski: julian.gorski@fundacja-nami.pl, mobile (+48) 663 571 823
Press and Media
Poster
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