Interview With Mr. Taro Gomi (Author, Illustrator)
“Being Human: Art as an Interim Report”

“Positioning---In the New Reality of Europe”
350,000 People Test Their Japanese Skills Worldwide Young Leaders Discuss “Negotiating Diversity”
Drumming His Way Out Back: Eitetsu Hayashi Tours Australia

Japan, America, and The Soviet Union: Three Aspects of Japan’s Surrender
“Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman and the Surrender of Japan”, 2005 Belknap Press/Harvard University Press

South Asia and its Strategic Significance to Japan
By Monir Hossain Moni

Interview With Mr. Siddiq Barmak (Film Director)
“ Showing the International Community the Reality of Afghanistan”

Mexico Hosts Contemporary Japanese Performers at The Cervantino International Festival
Cubism in Asia Tours Singapore 2/18-4/9
Japanese Supernatural Beings Travel to Paris “YOKAI”
Lectures on Japanese Anime –Koji Takeuchi Tours Southeast Asia

Japan’s Most Influential Cultural Commentators
“Modern Japanese Culture: The Insider View”, 2003 Oxford University Press, Victoria, Australia

A Line Is a Line Is Not –Wrestling with Japanese Poetry
By Malinda Markham

Interview With Mr. Shunsuke Tsurumi (Philosopher, Critic)
“ With Twenty Percent Flexibility, We Can Resist Oppression”

The Japan Foundation Award and Special Prizes
Mr. Hayao Miyazaki / Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) / China-Japanese Education Association / Dr. Tabassum Kashmiri

11th EAJS Conference in Vienna
Ukiyo-e Printing Demonstrated in Seven U.S. Cities
Japan Foundation Library Closed for Renovation

Changing Political Mechanisms in Japan
“Parliamentary Committees in Japan and India: Their Functions and Relevance”, 2003 Manak, New Delhi

Stopping HIV/AIDS in Asia: The Key is Empowering Women

Interview With Mr. Yasuhiro Yamashita (Judoist, Olympic Gold Medalist)
“Judo as a Path to Social Good”

Yokohama 2005 Opens
Chikaku: Perception, Time, and Memory in Japan
2006-2007 Program Guidelines Announced

A Modern Literary Critic’s Early Days in Tokyo
“William Empson: Volume I ―Among the Mandarins”, 2005 Oxford University Press

The 14th Biennial Japanese Studies Association of Australia Conference

Interview With Ms. Peng Xiumin, Erhu Musician
“Discovering Chinese Culture and History Through Music”

46th International Speech Contest in Japanese
Visions of the Body 2005
Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo

“Japan’s Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the Twenty- First Century” by Jeff Kingston

Brazil and Japan: Capoeira as a Cultural and Artistic Link / Arturo Urena- Hamelitz

Interview With Mr. Frederik Schodt
“Manga: A Medium to Tell Stories”

Arab Film Festival in Tokyo 2005
Venice Biennale 2005
The Japanese- Language Institute, Urawa 15th Anniversary Event “Let’s Talk in Japanese”
Korea- Japan Road Club Festival

Adopting Chinese Literature in Japan
“Wakan: Symposium of the Working Group on Pre- Modern Literature of Japan,” June 2003 Munich University

On Good Governance and Leadership in the Solomon Islands / Salana Kalu

Interview With Dr. Makruf Jamhari
“Sufism Has Created a Tolerant and Pluralistic Islamism in Indonesia”

Korean Writer Kim Younsu: The Individual Amidst the Tides of History
Russian and Japanese Film Directors: Zvyagintsev and Koreeda Meet to Discuss Their Art
New Report Reveals 2.35 Million Students Studying Japanese Worldwide
Prime Minister Koizumi Selected “Nipponjin of the Year, 2004”

Sado Island's Traditional Crafts

News Nishikie — Tabloid Tales in Living Color / Mark Schreiber

Okinawa and the East Asian Community - Marginal Island Solidarity- / Kurayoshi Takara

"Have We Met?" Held at The Japan Foundation
Turkish Writer: Mr. Orhan Pamuk at the Japan
Four Japanese Artists to Attend 11th Triennale-India
Arabic Orchestra Tours Japan

Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village

Theater HerStory: Women in Modern Chinese Drama

Interview with Al-Murwass
The Japan Foundation Award

Multimedia Theater Piece Memories of a Legend by Five South Asian Directors
Ukiyo-e: Images of the Floating World
Archive of Modern Japanese Drama Synopses Completed
TV Commercials for Japanese Classrooms, 2005 Released in March, 2005

The Lone Samurai

Building With Miso Bricks / Eric Gower

Japanese Society: Interview with Donald Richie

“JIKI: Japanese Porcelains 1610-1760” Tours in Three European Cities
China to Publish Japanese Academic Masterpieces
Amon Miyamoto Directs: Pacific Overtures
Otaku Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Russia to Publish Anthologies of Contemporary Japanese Literature

Kazuo Ohno's World

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"The Heart Remembers Home"

From the Japanese Press

"Studying a Foreign Language: A Heart-to-Heart Understanding"
"The Body in Avant-Garde Theater in Japan"

A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie
Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry by Janine Beichman
Dodonaus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period, ed. W. F. Vande Walle and Kazuhiko Kasaya

"Recognizing 'Others' in a New Japanese Cinema"

From the Japanese Press

"Makoto Nakamura's Posters"
"Moving the Masses: Rural Poverty and the Village Division and Relocation Campaign in the 1930s"
"The Meijin Kurabe of San'yutei Enchô: An Original Approach to Western Drama in Japan"

Heian Japan, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Japan, ed. Donald H. Shively and William H. McCullough
The Poetics of Japanese Verse: Imagery, Structure, Meter by Kôji Kawamoto, trans. Stephen Collington, Kevin Collins, and Gustav Heldt

"The Japan Foundation Awards and Special Prizes for 2001"

"How Japanese Athletes Are Changing Japan's Image at Home and Abroad"

From the Japanese Press

"The Cultural Politics of Identity Strategies in the Japanese Literature of Resident Koreans in Japan"
"The History and Ecology of the Extinction of the Japanese Wolf"
"Japanese Colonial Literature"

American Stories by Kafû Nagai, trans. Mitsuko Iriye
Drunk as a Lord: Samurai Stories by Ryôtarô Shiba, trans. Eileen Kato

"The 2001 Yokohama Triennale: Undertaking a New Challenge"

"Youth Problems and Japanese Society"

From the Japanese Press

"Sôseki Natsume and the Fluctuating Values of Property"
"Continuity in Japanese Carpentry: Notes on the Technical Culture of Architectural Conservation"
"Japan, Asia, and Globalization"

"La Sieste sous l'aile du cormoran" et autres poèmes magiques:Prolégom
ènes àl'étude des concepts religieux du Japon by Hartmut O. Rotermund
Religions, croyances et traditions populaires du Japon by Hartmut O. Rotermund
Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the "Tragic Hero" by Isolde Standish

"Program for the Translation and Publication of Japanese Literary Works in the Russian Language"

"From the Iron Triangle to Civil Society: Changing Japan's Society"

From the Japanese Press

"Basho's Poetic-Visionary Wandering and Nature in Japanese Society"
"Literacy and Literature in Osaka, 1890-1940"
"Progressive Traditions: Plot Repetition in Traditional Japanese Theater"

Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s edited by Elise K. Tipton and John Clark
Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan by Rebecca L. Copeland