The Japan Foundation carries out arts and cultural exchange programs to enhance mutual understanding among countries throughout the world.
Human Exchange and Cultural Cooperation
The Japan Foundation has been carrying out a broad range of activities to introduce aspects of Japanese culture to people abroad for the purpose of promoting their familiarity with Japan and enhancing their understanding of Japan.
Community Leaders and Youth Exchange
This program promotes international mutual understanhding and exchange at the grassroots level in cultural fields.
Emphasis is placed on the introduction of the traditional and contemporary arts of Japan overseas and overseas arts in Japan.
The performing arts exchange programs of the Japan Foundation respond to the interests of various overseas countries in Japan's arts and culture by introducing them in a variety of ways in those countries.
Audiovisual and Publication Exchange
The Japan Foundation carries out types of visual and publication exchange programs in its endeavors to deepen mutual understanding between Japan and other countries of the world.
This grant aims to support projects that will further understanding of Japanese arts and culture.
Event: Tyler Tyler (Mar 17-20)
Event: Blocks of Continuality/ Body, Image, and Algorithm (Mar 3-6)
Event: AURA-J (Mar 3-9)
Report: Hogaku: New Sounds of Japan 2010
Event: Japan Foundation Film Series 2010 (Western Michigan University, University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin)
Event: Rieko Matsuura: An Evening with a Contemporary Japanese Novelist (The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P, Feb 25)
Event: AUTO DA FE (Jan. 8-24)
Event: Akira Kurosawa Centennial at Film Forum (Jan 6-Feb 18)
Event: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Jan 12-30)
Event: Khoomei-Taiko Ensemble: Throat Songs and Drums (Oct 16)
Event: "Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design" (Oct 9-Jan 17)
Grant: Performing Arts Japan calls for applications (Deadline: Nov 2)
Event: Weaving Japanese Sounds Annual Concert (July 10)
Event: Fusako Kuyama "Art of Integration" (July 8 - 21)
Japanese Contemporary Literature Project (Free Books Upon Request)
Event: New York Asian Film Festival (June 19 - July 5)
Event: Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film (June 30 - July 12)
Event: Megumi Kanda Trombone Recital (July 25)
Event: Rakugo, Japanese humorous storytelling (May 13)
Event: I HAVE BEEN TO HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (May 8 - 30)
Event: Traditions, Inventions, Exchange (June 6)
Event: Beyond Golden Clouds: Lectures, Performances, and Education Programs (June 25 - Sep 13)
Event: Dogugaeshi (May 30 - June 7)
Event: Voices from Hiroshima (May 11, 18 & 25)
Event: PEN World Voices Festival (April 27-May 3)