The Activities of the Japan Foundation
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.
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