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The Activities of the Japan Foundation

The Japan Foundation Asia Center

Through interacting and collaborating in Japanese-language education, arts and culture, sports, grassroots exchange, and intellectual exchange, Asia Center conducts and supports collaborative initiatives with its Asian—primarily ASEAN—counterparts. Asia Center aims to develop the sense of kinship and coexistence as neighboring inhabitants of Asia and nurture human resources to become a bridge between Asian countries.

Support for Japanese-Language Learning

Students taught (total) 498,754 students

Number of "NIHONGO Partners" dispatched (total) 1,860 persons

Arts and Cultural Exchange

Number of events organized/supported 1,981

Participants (total) 4,695,535 participants

* Accumulative total from FY2014 to FY2018

Background of the Establishment of Asia Center

Asia Center was established in April 2014 to implement the new Asian cultural exchange policy "WA Project: Toward Interactive Asia through Fusion and Harmony" announced by the Japanese government at the ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit Meeting in Tokyo in December 2013.

Photo of the ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit Meeting in Tokyo

Photo courtesy of Cabinet Public Relations Office