The Japan Foundation Awards Recipients, Presentation ceremony and Commemorative events in previous years

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• The Japan Foundation Awards 2025 Commemorative Lecture: Japanese-Language education in Republic of Korea

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• The 51st Japan Foundation Awards Report on the 2024 Japan Foundation Awards Ceremony
• Japanese Language Education in Mongolia and the History of the Association of Japanese Language Teachers of Mongolia
• How Japanese Arts and Cultures Make Us Happier

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• The Japan Foundation Awards 2024 Commemorative Event: Japanese-Language education in Mongolia
• The Japan Foundation Awards 2024 Commemorative Event: How Japanese arts and cultures make us happier

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• The 50th Japan Foundation Awards ―Culture Transcending Borders― <1> Report for 2023 Presentation Ceremony for the Japan Foundation Awards | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi 
• The 50th Japan Foundation Awards ―Culture Transcending Borders― <2> A Commemorative Talk session by Miyagi Satoshi and Miyagishima Haruka (Part1) | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi 
• The 50th Japan Foundation Awards ―Culture Transcending Borders― <3> A Commemorative Talk session by Miyagi Satoshi and Miyagishima Haruka (Part2) | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi 
• The 50th Japan Foundation Awards ―Culture Transcending Borders― <4> Peruvian Japanese Association - Award Commemorative Lecture | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi 
• The 50th Japan Foundation Awards ―Culture Transcending Borders― <5> A Commemorative Talk Session by Ogawa Yoko and Ozaki Mariko | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi 

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• 078: The 49th Japan Foundation Awards -Building Bridges Across Differences- | The Japan Foundation Web Magazine Wochi Kochi 
• Report for 2022 Presentation Ceremony for the Japan Foundation Awards 
• A Commemorative Talk session by Robert Lepage and Takahagi Hiroshi 
• Korean Japanese Association - Award Commemorative Lecture 
• Goenawan Mohamad - Award Commemorative Lecture 

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• The 47th Japan Foundation Awards―the Bond between Japan and the World Nurtured by Culture, Language and Knowledge 
• Report for 2019 Presentation Ceremony for the Japan Foundation Awards 
• Special Interview with Mr. Tanikawa Shuntaro 
• Report on the Lecture by PERSADA
  Looking Back on 55 Years of History and Looking to the Future 
• A Historian Interprets the Friendly Relationship between Poland and Japan
  —Upon Professor Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska's Receiving the Japan Foundation Award 2019— 

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• Literature and music that resonate across borders and Japanese culture handed down from the past: The Japan Foundation Awards 2018 
• Premonitions of Works Where Souls Reverberate—The Resonance of Literature and Music in "Encounter of Souls Crossing Borders" an Event to Commemorate the Japan Foundation Awards 2018 
• Journey Carrying Words, Looking for Words 
• Report on "The vibrating path toward a musical dream: From Noh-theater to a new operatic form—Opera Erdbeben.Träume and other works" 
• Spanish-Japanese Cultural Center of the University of Salamanca: Between the tradition and the future 

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• Passion and Curiosity Open Doors to Cross-Cultural Communication - The Japan Foundation Awards 2017 
• The state of the field of postwar and contemporary Japanese art history in America and the rise of global art history 
• The Passion to Connect Different Cultures across the Ocean 
• Forty Years of Introducing Japanese Manga Culture to North America 
• Japanese Studies as a Dialogue: A View from a Small Country 

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• A Message from Cai Guo-Qiang to Japanese Art Students ―The Japan Foundation Awards Commemorative Lecture Report 
• Susan J. Pharr, "The Enigma of U.S.-Japan Relations: A 50-Year Perspectve" 
• How did Japanese-language Education Develop in Brazil, the Home of the Largest Nikkei Community? 

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• Various Ways of International Friendship and Cultural Exchange: The Japan Foundation Awards 2015 
• The Style of East Asian Cultural Exchange: As Seen in the Book Road and Written Communication 
• Tomita's Globally Reverberating Sound: From Its Origins to Symphony Ihatov 
• The Flourishing Sibiu International Theatre Festival: Its Driving Force and the Fruits of Cultural Diplomacy 

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• Language and Laughter that Connect People -- The Japan Foundation Awards 2014 
• Rakugo and Japanese Language Education 
• Peter Drysdale talks about half a century of research 
• The 300 Year Lineage of Japanese Language Education in Russia 

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• The 41st Japan Foundation Awards: Connecting the World, Connecting Generations 
• Toward an Asia-Pacific Community 
• Dialogue between Sankai Juku Artistic Director Ushio Amagatsu and Theater Critic Tamotsu Watanabe: From Japanese Dance 
• From Japan to Thailand, and on to the ASEAN community 

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• The Japan Foundation Awards 2012 
• The Kojiki, a Long Forgotten Aeneid?--A Hypothesis from a French Researcher 
• Believing in the Power of Culture beyond the Regional and Historical Boundaries: Haruki Murakami's Acceptance Speech 
• Sustained People-to-People Relationships: A Foundation for U.S.-Japan Relations 

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• The Japan Foundation Awards Special Issue: Profiles of Pioneers 
• Erasing Borderlines with Music--The Tambuco Percussion Ensemble in Japan 
• Building a Bridge between Japan and Egypt 
• A Dream Born at the Pyramids 
• Rebuilding Japan's Fuudo (natural environment with cultural background)--Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake considered from the viewpoint of Fuudo