October 2008
5th Tokamachi Quilt exhibition (Tokamachi, Japan)

We contributed a quilt exhibition to the Japanese public from 21st September to 5th October 2008. Quilters across Japan displayed their work of arts. Many of stores on the main shopping streets in Tokamachi city were fully decorated by beautifully handmade quilts during that period! We also sponsored "Cocoon Club" that is one of the newest quilt clubs in Tokamachi city.

October 2008
Haptic Closing Event (Glasgow, UK)

We offered a kimono display event to members of the Creative Entrepreneurs Club at the Lighthouse in Glasgow on 23rd September 2008. It formed part of the closing event of the ‘Haptic Interface Design’ exhibition at the centre. A public speech was given by Professor Masayo Ave, Head of Product Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Alongside this, a kimono display and demonstration were provided by Petit Japon. The Lighthouse is a charitable trust and the national centre of architecture and design, located in Glasgow UK.

July 2008
EPIS exhibition (Edinburgh UK)

Edinburgh Pre-Incubator Scheme (EPIS) organised a business exhibition together with the University of Edinburgh in order to introduce Edinburgh-based entrepreneurs, their technologies and achievements to the UK public on 10th July 2008. Over 50 entrepreneurial companies and hundreds of visitors enjoyed being in the exhibition! Petit Japon was the only company provided products and services by mixture of Japanese culture and web technologies such as Japanese traditional costume, cultural performance, e-commerce and web 2.0 technologies. Petit Japon also got a lot of attentions and positive feedbacks from the visitors.

June 2008
Experiencing Japan (Edinburgh, UK)

Petit Japon organised a Japanese cultural fundraising event along with the Women's Federation for World Peace (the WFWP) in Edinburgh on 14th June 2008. The aim was to raise funds for people in Africa and North Korea suffering as a result of poverty and adverse environmental situations. The event introduced aspects of Japanese culture such as the tea ceremony, Japanese harp demonstrations and sushi making, attracting a great many visitors and generating interest through exposure to these unique workshops. Petit Japon donated 10% of its sales on that day to the WFWP.

May 2008
Japanorama (Perth, UK)

A number of Japanese objects - such as a vintage kimono for weddings that is over 100 years old, and entire sets of Japanese tea ceremony items - have been loaned to Perth museum and Art Gallery for the one-day Japanese cultural festival, ‘Japanorama’, on 3rd May 2008 and for the overall Japanese art exhibition!

February 2008
Experiencing Japan (Edinburgh, UK)

Scottish Institute for entreprise (SIE) and Launch.ed.uk (Launch) supported local winners of SIE business competition, as they pitched their business plans to SIE and Launch before the final judging round at the beginning of March 2008. Petit Japon was one of six local winners at the University of Edinburgh. SIE and Launch cerebrated all local winners at the old college of the University of Edinburgh. Each winner put his/her showcase there.

January 2008
Japanese art exhibition (Perth, UK)

One of Petit Japon’s biggest achievements has been a successful art exhibition in Perth! Petit Japon has contributed to an exhibition of Japanese art at Perth Museum and Art Gallery, running from January 2008 until January 2009, entitled ‘A glimpse of the floating world’. The exhibition presents a selection of Japanese art and objects from around the 19th century. It gives a glimpse of life in the ‘floating world’, a term which was used to describe the entertainment districts of Japanese cities where tea ceremony houses and kabuki theatres flourished in that century. It was world set apart from mainstream Japanese society. This exhibition has provided thousands of visitors with an insight into Japanese culture and helped give that culture enormous credibility amongst the UK public.