2007-04-16 18:30:00 - 2007-04-16 20:30:00
Tokyo, Now and Then
Mon., April 16, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Tokyo, today, is a flashy hyper-modern city, while simultaneously boasting a castle with a complexly layered fabric of intimate old neighborhoods. BJordan Sand, associate professor in the Department of East Asian languages and cultures at Georgetown University, probes the strata of present-day Tokyo to reveal the transformations that have taken place in the city’s 400-year history.
Location: Indicated on ticket.
Tickets: Resident Members $25; Senior Members $22; Gen. Admission $35
Smithsonian InstitutionWashington, D.C., District of Columbia