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Main Activities

Fiscal Year 2007-2008

 

Jan. 30, 2008

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
JFIC Library News

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in February

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar "Gendered barriers to elite-level political participation: what prevents LDP women from engaging in national level politics?"
Date: February 27, 2008
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Jan. 28, 2008

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
"Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" (Vol.60)

Jan. 22, 2008

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar "Labour-related CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) − basic overview and some aspects of the Japanese approach"
Date: February 4, 2008
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Jan. 16, 2008

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
The Japan Foundation Film Series Part 9
Rediscovery of YAMAMOTO Satsuo

Dates: February 2 - 3, 2008
Venue: OAG Hall

Jan. 9, 2008

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar "Images of Marriage in Early Twentieth Century Korean and Japanese Literature "
Date: January 15, 2008
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Jan. 8, 2008

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
JFIC Library News

Dec. 28, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
An Introductory Bibliography for Japanese Studies Vol.15, Part 2 published
Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in January

Dec. 20, 2007

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
Message by Previous Participants (Program for University Students Groups Autumn) was uploaded.

Dec. 10, 2007

Other Activities
Japanese Movie Night with Subtitles in Foreign Languages

Dates: January. 5 - 26 (Fri.),2008
Venue: International House, Osaka - MET Hall

Dec. 6, 2007

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
"Japanese Book News" Vol.54

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
"Wochi Kochi" (Vol. 20)

Dec. 4, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar "E-Commerce Awareness in Japan as an Inspiration to Cameroon"
Date: December 11, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Nov. 30, 2007

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
JFIC Library News: December 2007

Nov. 27, 2007

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
Message by Previous Participants (Program for Outstanding Students of the Japanese-Language) was uploaded.

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar "Ukrainian Societal Transformation. The Role of Administrative Elites Ideology and Lessons from Japan"
Date: December 10, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in December

Visual Arts
Katagami — Paper Stencils and Japonisme Update (JF Video Square)

Nov. 16, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
The Asia Leadership Fellow Program (ALFP) 2008 Call for Applications
Application deadline: December 28, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar "System of School Head’s Professional Development : Lithuania and Japan"
Date: November 26, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Nov. 14, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar "The Aesthetics of Children’s Writing in 1930s and 1940s"
Date: December 5, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Nov. 13, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
International Conference: "Aspects of Democracy – Towards Solutions for 21st Century Developments"
Date: November 28, 2007
Venue: Japanese-German Center Berlin, Germany

Nov. 12, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar "Resonances of the roji: shifting public space and urban life in between Low- and High-rise in contemporary Tokyo"
Date: November 30, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Nov. 9, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
The Japan Foundation Middle East Fellowship Program for Intellectual Exchange 2007
Final Presentation Session: “Societies, Development and the Environment”

Date: November 16, 2007 (Fri) 13:30 – 17:30
Venue: Iwasaki-Koyata Memorial Hall, International House

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
ABE FELLOWSHIP COLLOQUIUM "Artworlds Across the Pacific: Creators, Curators, Policy Makers, and Entrepreneurs in the Making of a Global Japanese Contemporary Art"
Date: December 4 (Tue.), 2007
Venue: International Conference Hall at The Japan Foundation

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
The U.S.-Japan Innovators Project

Nov. 7, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar - Session 17
"Japan-China Trade and the Politics"

Date: December 6, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar - Session 16
"How do French readers read contemporary Japanese literature? "

Date: November 14, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
Announcement of the Preliminary Results: Overseas Learners of Japanese-language amounting to 2.98 Million! PDF(PDF)

Nov. 5, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellow's Seminar - Session 15
"Early Christianity in Japan"

Date: November 13, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Nov. 1, 2007

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
Outline of the Results of the "Survey on Japanese-Language Education Abroad 2006"

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
JFIC Library News: November 2007

Oct. 30, 2007

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in November

Oct. 25, 2007

Other Activities
Art Exhibition by Suisen NAKATANI "Universe, Mind and Color"
Dates: November 11- 29, 2007
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Bangkok

Oct. 22, 2007

Performing Arts
SATORU SHIONOYA GROUP Jazz Concert 2007
Dates: November 14 - 23

Oct. 10, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Invitation to the Fellow’s Seminar - Session 14
Political dynamics in Korea concerning historical issues

Date: October 25, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Oct. 5, 2007

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
"Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" (Vol.59)

Oct. 1, 2007

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
"Wochi Kochi" (Vol. 19)

Sep. 28, 2007

Press Release
U.S.-Japan Symposium "Is the Image of Japan Changing? - Perspectives of Japanese Americans in Media-"PDF(PDF)

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in October

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
JFIC Library News: October 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Public Symposium “Is the Image of Japan Changing? - Perspectives of Japanese Americans in Media -”
Date: October 11 (Thu), 2007, 14:00 – 16:30
Venue: Keidanren Hall

Sep. 27, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Invitation to the Fellow’s Seminar - Session 13
“Some Aspects of the Japanese Post-war and Bulgarian Transition Agricultural Reform Policies”

Date: October 11, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Sep. 21, 2007

Other Activities
An Evenig of Noh and Kyogen
Date: November 6, 2007
Venue: Kongo Nohgakudo

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
"Japanese Book News" Vol.53

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Invitation to the Fellow’s Seminar –Fellowship Program for the Leaders of the Next Generation in Asia –
"Forest Resource Management System and Rural Life in Northern Laos: Research and Advocacy on the Land Forest Allocation Program."
Date: September 27, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Sep. 3, 2007

Visual Arts
Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan
Dates: September 25 (Tue.) – October 21 (Sun.), 2007 / Beijing
December 25 (Tue.), 2007 – January 20 (Sun.), 2008  / Guangzhou

Aug. 31, 2007

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
The Japan Foundation Japanese-Langauge Institute, Kansai
Updated Message by Previous Participants (High School Students)

Aug. 30, 2007

Press Release
Announcement of the Recipients of The Japan Foundation Award and Special Prizes 2007PDF(PDF)

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
The Japan Foundation Award Memorial Lecture
Date: October 5
Venue: Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
The Japan Foundation Special Prizes for Japanese Studies Memorial Lecture
Date: October 5
Venue: Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University

Aug. 29, 2007

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
JFIC Library News: September 2007

Aug. 28, 2007

Performing Arts
Taiko Drumming Concert Tour in Spain
Dates: September 14 - 22

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Public Symposium “Global Carbon Reduction: Developing New Strategies and Deploying New Technologies in Japan and the United States”
Date: September 6 (Thu), 2007, 13:30 – 17:00
Venue: International Conference Hall at The Japan Foundation

About Us
On the article that ran in the Yomiuri Shimbun (morning edition) on August 14 PDF(PDF)

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in September

Aug. 16, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
ABE FELLOWSHIP COLLOQUIUM “Why Do States Join the International Criminal Court? The Case of Japan, 1997-2007”
Date: September 3 (Mon.), 2007
Venue: International Conference Hall at The Japan Foundation

Aug. 13, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellows Seminar – Session 12
Feasibility of Japan-BIMSTEC Free Trade Arrangement: An Exploratory Analysis
Date: August 30, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellows Seminar – Session 11
Japan: Securing Energy Supply from the Persian Gulf Possibilities, Impediments and other Consequences
Date: August 24, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Aug. 9, 2007

Performing Arts
Performing Women – Reinterpreted from Greek Tragedy
Dates: October 6 (Sat.) - 8 (Mon.), 2007
Venue: Bunkamura Theater Cocoon (Shibuya, Tokyo)
Dates: October 13 (Sat.) - 14 (Sun), 2007
Venue: Nam Mountain Drama Center (Seoul)

Other Activities
“Odori ni Ikuze!! 2007” (We're Gonna Go Dancing!! 2007) – JCDN Tour Project in Southeast Asia –
Dates: August 9 - September 5, 2007

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
The Japan Foundation Japanese-Langauge Institute, Kansai
Updated Message by Previous Participants (Foreign-Service Officers and Public Officials).

Aug. 7, 2007

JF Video Square
JF Organized Performing Arts Event Yousoro, Wasan bom, Koma, Kyogen Update

Aug. 1, 2007

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
"Wochi Kochi" (Vol. 18)

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
“Let's Learn Japanese by DVD  Erin’s Challenge!  I Can Speak Japanese vol.1”

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in August

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
JFIC Library News: August 2007

Jul. 31, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Grant Program for Intellectual Exchange Conferences (FY 2007-2008)

Jul. 26, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
The Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship Program (2007)

Jul. 25, 2007

Visual Arts
Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan
Dates: July 19 - October 21, 2007
Venue: British Museum, Hotung Gallery (London)

Jul. 24, 2007

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
"Japanese-Language Education around the Globe" Vol.17

Jul. 20, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Reconstruction of Aceh From Conflicts & Tsunami Disaster Through Cultures & Arts
Date: July 28, 2007
Venue: Room AA401, Engineering Bld. 4, Graduate School of Asian & African Areas Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto-shi
Date: August 4, 2007
Venue: International Conference Hall at The Japan Foundation

About Us
"The Japan Foundation 2005 Annual Report"

Jul. 17, 2007

Press Release
Yasmin Ahmad and the New Wave of Malaysian Cinema: In Commemoration of Japan-Malaysia Friendship Year 2007 PDF(PDF)

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellows Seminar – Session 10
Varieties of Love and Hatred in Ihara Saikaku’s Budô denraiki (A Transmission of the Way of the Warrior)

Date: August 1, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellows Seminar – Session 9
The Role of Policy in the Development of Content Industries in East Asia
Date: July 27, 2007
Venue: JFIC-A at The Japan Foundation

Jul. 11, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellows Seminar – Session 8
Rejoice Always, But in Private?: Individual Salvation and Private Faith in a Catholic Church in Tokyo

Date: July 26, 2007
Venue: JFIC-A at The Japan Foundation

Jul. 6, 2007

Press Release
New Dictionary Website for Foreign Care Workers PDF(PDF)

Jul. 4, 2007

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in July

Jun. 29, 2007

Databases
"Air (Artist-in-Residence) Japan" website newly revised

Jun. 29, 2007

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
JFIC Library News: July 2007

Jun. 22, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellows Seminar – Session 7
Moral and Religious Education in Japan
Date: July 12, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Jun. 20, 2007

Performing Arts
European Tour of Hinokiya
Dates: June 21 – July 5, 2007

Jun. 12, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Fellows Seminar – Session 6
“The Role of Infrastructure in the Economic Development of Myanmar (1988–2004): A Comparison with Postwar Japan”

Date: June 20, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

Jun. 5, 2007

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
"Japanese Book News" Vol.52

Jun. 5, 2007

Press Release
Japanese Exhibition Opens at 52nd Venice BiennalePDF(PDF)

Jun. 4, 2007

Visual arts
Is There a Future for Our Past?: The Dark Face of the Light
Japanese Pavilion 2007
The 52nd International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia

Dates: June 10 – Nov. 21, 2007

Performing Arts
Dynamic Japanese “Tsugaru Shamisen”
Masahiro Nitta on the Tsugaru Shamisen

Dates: June 14 – 18, 2007
Venues: Dublin, Cork and Buncrana

Performing Arts
Chieko Fukuda Ensemble
Dates: June 9 – 14, 2007
Venues: New Orleans, Nashville and Jackson

Jun. 1, 2007

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
"Wochi Kochi" (Vol. 17)

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
JFIC Library News: June 2007

May 30, 2007

Other Activities
Kyoto Office Fellow’s Seminar – Session 1
" The Aesthetics of Nostalgia in Contemporary Travel Narratives on Japan"
Date: June 15, 2007
Venue: Auditorium of Urbanex Oike Building East 2F

May 29, 2007

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in June

May 28, 2007

JF Video Activities
Speech by Winners of the Japan Foundation Prizes for Global Citizenship (2006) Update

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
"Nihongo Kyoiku Tsushin" (Vol.58)

May 25, 2007

Performing Arts
BATIK in Europe
Dates: June 4 - 27, 2007

May 24, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Invitation to the Fellow's Seminar Session 5
“The Business of Leisure, the Leisure of Business: Salarymen's Ambiguous Existence in Tokyo Hostess Clubs”

Date: May 30, 2007
Venue: JFIC-A at The Japan Foundation

Other Activities
Trance: In Conversation with Shoji Kokami
Date: June 26, 2007
Venue: The Japan Foundation, London

Other Activities
Photo Exhibition "Japanese Garden - Four Seasons of Gardens in Kyoto -"
Dates: June 4 - July 28, 2007
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Bangkok

May 18, 2007

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
An Announcement for the Library Orientation
Date: May 30, 2007
Venue: JFIC Library at The Japan Foundation

May 14, 2007

Press Release
The 48th International Speech Contest in Japanese PDF(PDF)

May 11, 2007

Other Activities
Southeast Asian Performance Tour of “Pinocchio” by Opera Theater Konnyakuza
Dates: May 12 - 27, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Invitation to the Fellow's Seminar Session 4
"Body and ascetic practices in contemporary Japanese religious context"

Date: May 25, 2007
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation

May 10, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Public Symposium  “Fertility Decline and Work-life Balance: Policies and Policy Implications from an International Perspective”
Date: May 26
Venue: The Japan Foundation International Conference Hall

May 9, 2007

Visual Arts
Cubism in Asia: Unbounded Dialogues
Dates: May 16 - July 7, 2007
Venue: The Japan Cultural Institute in Paris

Press Release
Results of the 2006 Japanese Language Proficiency TestPDF(PDF)

May 1, 2007

Other Activities
Percussion Concerts by HidaJimbo in Europe
Dates: May 11 - 16, 2007

Press Release
Screenings of English-Subtitled Japanese FilmsPDF(PDF)

Apr. 27, 2007

Information and Resource Center (JFIC)
JFIC Library News: May, 2007

Apr. 24, 2007

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
Japanese Films Screenings Overseas in May

Apr. 23, 2007

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
Asian Youth Fellowship Japanese Language Program

Apr. 20, 2007

Audio-Visual and Publication Exchange
The Japan Foundation Film Series Part 8
Rediscovery of Japanese Cinema
Dates: May 25 - 27, 2007
Venue: Akasaka Kumin Center Hall

Apr. 16, 2007

Japanese-Language Education Overseas
Call for Papers for Japanese-Language Education Around the Globe vol.18, which will be the fourth issue to include the Reports on the Current State of Japanese-Language Education.
Deadline: June 20 (Wed.), 2007

Apr. 12, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Invitation Fellow's Seminar Session 3
Date: April 25
Venue: JFIC-Commons at The Japan Foundation
Topic: Daoism in Japan: An Overview— From Seals and Stars to Cinnabar

Apr. 10, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Invitation Fellow's Seminar Session 2
Date: April 18
Venue: JFIC-A at The Japan Foundation
Topic: Mainstreaming Research in Universities: A Study of Best Practices in Japanese Universities.

Press Release
Public Seminar on Endowed Chairs at Japanese and US Universities PDF(PDF)

Apr. 6, 2007

Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange
Public Seminar
"Endowed Chairs in Universities in Japan and the United States-Learning from Good Practices"
Date: April 23
Venue: The Japan Foundation International Conference Hall

Apr. 4, 2007

Other Activities
Working More Closely with the Goethe-Institut

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