UCLan Japanese Society

07/02/2022

We can’t wait! make sure you book your places!

We're very excited for Japan Day this Friday! 🎎🍱

Book your place and find out more: http://ow.ly/GEwy50HOiaZ

19/11/2021

Today’s social will be at Harrington Lecture Theatre from 7pm-9pm depending on when everyone is free.

We will be hosting a casual social and we could use the projector for games.

You are also free to bring your own snacks to the event!

09/11/2021

Hi everyone!
Below is a link for a server that has members of Jsocs from all over the UK please join if you are interested ☺️ it is a good chance to meet new people with similar interests and there may be joint events in the future

Discord link:

Check out the UK JapanSoc Collective community on Discord - hang out with 448 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

29/10/2021

Hi everyone, due to unavoidable circumstances there has been another position open up on the committee. Luke will be stepping down as Chair. This means that in future any questions/emails should be directed towards me as I will be taking over Luke's role. However if you have any queries about the language exchanges please stay in touch with Luke - he will still be the point of call for them. Currently nominations for the committee are open the deadline is the 19th November and polls will open on the 22nd. (Ill send out reminders the week and day before they close) If you are interested in being part of the committee please nominate yourself the current vacant positions are Vice-chair and Social Secretary. Also if anyone has anything they want to contribute to Bunkasai (Japan day) please message me asap we are currently trying to organise as much of that as possible in the next coming weeks.

Georgia R

02/10/2021

This morning UCLAN's JSOC and Hokusei Gakuen's HUIT finished our first language exchange of the year, huge thank you to HUIT for all the amazing work they put in to this event and to everyone who attended, this event couldn't have happened without you all!

We hope everyone had lots of fun today, and for anyone interested in attending future language exchange events the JSOC will be announcing more in the coming days.

30/09/2021

Hi everyone, spaces for the Hokusei Gakuen language exchange are now full, if you're interested in taking part in any future language exchange events please keep posted here and on our societies page (https://www.uclansu.co.uk/organisation/6659/) for announcements on these and other events.

This society strives to create a comfortable environment in which people with an interest in Japanese Culture can meet, participate in activities and further enrich their University experience, of course under the umbrella of 'Cultural Exchange.'

29/09/2021

Hi Everybody, this week marks the start of a new year here at UCLAN, and with it a new committee, this year’s committee is as follows:

Chair: Luke Catlin-Groves
Vice-chair: Georgia-Lynn Roll
Treasurer: Theo Halliwell
Secretary: George Kirby
Social Secretary: Vacant (Apply at the October by-elections!)

Last year we were restricted to doing everything online, but with the new year we've been given the go-ahead to do events in person again. We have a lot of ideas for what we want to do this year, from Karaoke to Sushi making to a Film Festival and more. (Of course, including Japan Day)

Over the last year we’ve learned a lot about personal mental health and self-care, and as such we will be holding casual weekly socials for members to join and talk, play games together, do smaller trips together, and just generally de-stress after a hard week’s studying.

To keep the theme of good mental health we are also planning to launch a Discord server as a space for members to connect with one another and communicate, we’d love to see people joining voice channels and talking outside of events, making plans together, and generally making the most of our shared university life. It will also be a great place to keep up to date on all of our plans and events for this coming year so we hope you will all join.

Finally, after the success of last year we are continuing with the language exchange events, and already have several events planned for the next few months, more details on these will follow soon.

This year is very much a year of getting back on track for the society, our big events will be less frequent but we hope more memorable, and our small events will be more personal and focused on making us a stronger community.

I look forward to seeing everyone soon!

よろしくおねがいします!

Luke Catlin-Groves
2021 JSOC Chair

16/08/2021

What a year it has been! A lot of things have happened this year. The start of the online courses, online language exchange sessions... I hope you guys have made it through this ever-so difficult year. We have successfully finished the transition to the new committee members and now I'm not the Chair anymore! Thanks to all the support and thank you my team, the senseis, our members, uclan's societies and the people who participated in the online language exchange sessions, thank you very much! I hope all of you spend the rest of the summer well and I'll see you guys next year!

今年はどうぞ、ありがとうございました。皆さんのお助けや励ましがなかったら、僕たちは途方にくれていました。先生方、メンバー達、uclanのソサイエティの皆様、オンライン交流会に参加してくださった皆様、どうぞありがとうございます。今年はコロナやオンラインのコースで皆さん苦労したと思います。それでも、前進し貫けたと信じています。

ソサイエティの引き継ぎが済んだので、僕はもうJ-Socの部長ではありません！今までありがとうございます！僕のコアメンバーにも感謝でいっぱいです。

この夏休み楽しんでください！そして、また来年会いましょう！