NPO World Haiku Association has about 200 members from more than 40 countries, publishing every year multilingual book “World Haiku”, its newest No. 11 in Japan. Every two years the association holds its world-wide conference in Japan as well as overseas to become a creative source of haiku which has been an essential short poem for all humanity. The 8th Conference will be organized in Tokyo, inviting about twenty poets from overseas in its venue: Ochanomizu Campus of Meiji University, from 4 to 6 September in 2015.
Theme is Limitless Dialogue: From its beginnings the short poem form of the haiku contains a mixture of often contradictory elements, hence giving it a built-in source for argument. Today, the practice of haiku has spread throughout the world, and dialogue between different languages and cultures now presents itself as an important medium for the exchange of ideas. At this conference we hope to provide a platform for dialogue between differing languages, cultures, and genres.