Fiscal Year 2018 - 2019

March 29, 2019: Annual Report 2017/2018
March 20, 2019: The Japan Foundation Prizes for Global Citizenship (2018)
March 1, 2019: New Arrivals in February, 2019
February 22, 2019: Japan 2019

From March to December 2019
February 1, 2019: New Arrivals in January, 2019
January 31, 2019: The Japan Foundation Awards 2019 Call for Nominations

Deadline: All nominations must be received by Friday, March 29, 2019.
January 21, 2019: Small Exhibition “From Our Rare Book Collection” (January 2019)

Dates: Monday, January 28 – Friday, February 1, 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Place: 1st floor, Library
January 11, 2019: Japanese Film Screening - Osaka

Dates: Sunday, February 17, 2019 Sunday, February 24, 2019 Sunday, March 3, 2019
January 4, 2019: New Arrivals in December, 2018
December 14, 2018: The Japan Foundation Kyoto Office New Year Japanese Film Screening (with English subtitles)

Dates:Thursday, January 24, 2019
December 6, 2018: 2018-2019 E-Greeting Card
December 3, 2018: New Arrivals in November, 2018
November 2, 2018: [Announcement] The Spirit of Asia Award by The Japan Foundation Asia Center for Tokyo International Film Festival 2018 goes to Mr. Huang Huang
November 1, 2018: New Arrivals in October, 2018
October 31, 2018: Talk by Toshio HosokawaA vibrating Path towards the musical Dream:From Noh-Theater to a new Opera form -Opera Erdbeben.Träume and other works -
October 25, 2018: The Japan Foundation Kyoto Office Japanese Film Screening

(with English subtitles)
October 17, 2018: The Japan Foundation Special Award (2018)Masahiko Tsugawa
October 11, 2018: Lineup Announced for
CROSSCUT ASIA #05: Soundtrip to Southeast Asia
Special Trailer also Unveiled
October 2, 2018: 2018-2019 The Japan FoundationE-Greeting Card Contest

Submission Deadline: Sunday, October 28, 2018
October 1, 2018: New Arrivals in September, 2018
September 26, 2018: "ONE CUT OF THE DEAD" first screening in China and popular Japanese films in 4 cities
Celebrating 40th anniversary of the conclusion of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China Film Festival in China
―“JFF Web Magazine” now available in Chinese―
September 25, 2018: Mekong-Japan Exchange Year 2019
September 25, 2018: Japanese Film Screening in November 2018

Dates:Tuesday, November 13 – 16, 2018
September 25, 2018: The 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Poland and Japan in 2019
September 21, 2018: The Japan Foundation Awards 2018Commemorative Lectures

Date: Thursday October 18, Friday October 19, Tuesday October 23, 2018
Venue: JT ART HALL Affinis (October 18), Fuchu Campus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (October 19), The Japan Foundation Headquarters Hall “Sakura”, 2nd floor (October 23)
September 10, 2018: The Japan Foundation Program Guidelines for Fiscal Year 2019
September 7, 2018: The Japan Foundation Awards 2018 Go to Yoko Tawada, Toshio Hosokawa, and Spanish-Japanese Cultural Center of the University of Salamanca
September 6, 2018: Poster and Trailer Unveiled for Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2018: Journey
September 3, 2018: New Arrivals in August, 2018
August 31, 2018: The Japan Foundation Asian Art Archive
August 30, 2018: The Japan Foundation Awards (2018)Yoko Tawada, Toshio Hosokawa, Spanish-Japanese Cultural Center of the University of Salamanca
August 1, 2018: New Arrivals in July, 2018
July 19, 2018: The Japan Foundation Asia Center & Tokyo International Film Festival to Showcase Cinema with Music of Southeast Asia
July 2, 2018: New Arrivals in June, 2018
June 28, 2018: 550,000 People Around the World to Take
the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test in July
Number of overseas applicants up 47,000
June 26, 2018: The Japan Foundation Kyoto Office Anime Screening in Summer Vacation(with English subtitles)

Date: Friday, August 3, 2018
June 19, 2018: The Japan Pavilion Exhibition at the 58th International Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia (2019)
“Motoyuki Shitamichi＋Taro Yasuno＋Toshiaki Ishikura＋Fuminori Nousaku” have been selected to represent Japan
June 8, 2018: Application Guidelines - Eligibility Requirements for the Japan Foundation Prizes for Global Citizenship

Deadline for application:Tuesday, July 31, 2018
June 5, 2018: “Yokai: Iconography of the Fantastical. The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons as the Source of Supernatural Imagery in Japan”
An exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Spain
to be held in Madrid
June 1, 2018: New Arrivals in May, 2018
May 25, 2018: Noh Charity Performance: Prayers from Kyoto for Reconstruction of Japan’s Disaster-affected Regions

Dates: Thursday, August 23, 2018
May 10, 2018: Japan Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibtion
?La Biennale di Venezia
Architectural Ethnography, the exhibition aims to develop the discussion about our society in the future
May 1, 2018: New Arrivals in April, 2018
April 11, 2018: …and Action! Asia #04: Exchange Program for Students in Film Studies:
Short Films Jointly Made by Japanese and
Southeast Asian Students Are Now Available Online
April 2, 2018: New Arrivals in March, 2018