Data

Program Activity Summaries
Summary of the Japan Foundation Asia Center Programs

1. "NIHONGO Partners" Programs

Indonesia: 167
Thailand: 128
Viet Nam: 85
Malaysia: 42
The Philippines: 14
Myanmar: 6
Cambodia: 7
Singapore: 1
Brunei: 1
Laos: 3
China: 93
Taiwan: 88
Total of 635 "NIHONGO Partners" sent to 526 schools

Japanese-Language Specialists dispatched: 9 posts in 5 countries*
Counterpart Japanese-language teacher training in Japan: 83 teachers from 3 countries*
Teachers at secondary schools in Thailand who received scholarships to visit Japan: 14 teachers from 1 country*

2. Grassroots Exchange Programs

Society for Asian Cinema Studies
Cine Adobo Project
Match Flag Project (prepared a report)
HANDs! —Hope and Dreams— Project
Centers for Open Interaction (Chiang Mai, Yangon)
Exhibition of Lacquer Crafts in line with the Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting
Grant Programs: 42 grants

3. The Asia Center Fellowship Program

22 fellows

4. Asian Leadership Exchanges

...and Action! Asia #5: Exchange Program for Students in Film Studies
A Working Title 2018-2019: Training and Development Program for Film Screening Professionals
Performing Arts Presenters Invitation Program
Asia Leadership Fellow Program (ALFP)
Japan-ASEAN Media Forum 2018 (Bangkok)

Short Term Invitation Program for Cultural Leaders

Mattie Do (Laos)
Lam Peng Er (Singapore)

The Japan Foundation Summer Institute in Japan 2018**
Travel grant for participants in the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference**
Travel grant for participants in the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) AAS-in-ASIA conference**
Grant Programs: 7 grants**

5. Cultural Collaboration Programs

Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s-1990s

Media Art Exchange Programs

(Continuous forum: Science, Technology, Ethics and Aesthetics Connected By Art, Partner Program: Indonesian Netaudio Festival 2018-Sharing Over Netizen Explosion, (Exhibition: Internet of (No)Things: Ubiquitous Networking and Artistic Intervention, live concert and others), Music Program: Bordering Practice 2019 Live performance tour to Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, and Hanoi, The 3rd International symposium for Media Art Formation of Culture in the Post-Internet Era: Creation, Production, and Network)

Condition Report project The Breathing of Maps: Transformations of the Geo-Body
Asian Art Archive
Film Culture Exchange Projects with the Tokyo International Film Festival (CROSSCUT ASIA #05: Soundtrip to Southeast Asia and others)
Japanese Film Festival (JFF) Asia-Pacific Gateway Initiative
Visual Documentary Project 2018
Talents Tokyo 2018
Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival 2018 (a special feature of Philippine films and others)
DANCE DANCE ASIA—Crossing the Movements
TPAM–Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2019 (TPAM 2019)
The Power of Tradition, the Form of Artistry
Next Generation: Producing Performing Arts
NOTES: composing resonance
Collaborative project with SCOT (co-production with Indonesia and Japan)
Manila Notes directed by Oriza Hirata (overseas project in Manila)
International Collaboration with Toshiki Okada in Thailand
Collaborative project with Kirari Fujimi: A new platform for performing arts creation in Asia
Festival/Tokyo 2018 Asia Series Vol.5 Trans-fields
Asian Performing Arts Forum
Asia Center×JFA×J.League×Football Exchange (ASIAN ELEVEN)
Saitama International Football Festival 2019
Judo Exchange Program JAPAN-ASEAN JITA-KYOEI PROJECT
Innovative City Forum 2018
Film Screening & Talk (by director Tran Anh Hung)
Symposium of the Japan Consortium for International Cooperation in Cultural Heritage
Sanriku-Asian Network Project (Sanriku International Arts Festival)
Sanriku International Arts Festival 2019 collaborative project Sanriku×Asia Tsunagaru Project
EYES for Embracing Diversity
Exchange with Southeast Asian Muslim Youth (TAMU/Talk with Muslims series)
The International Symposium "Shared Values and Democracy in Asia"
Asia-Euro Policy Dialogue (AEPD)
Exhibition EARTH MANUAL PROJECT–This Could Save Your Life
Social Innovation Link (SOIL) program
Project for the Restoration of the Western Causeway of Angkor Wat
ASEAN Orchestra Support Program***
Japan-Vietnam Joint Project (KAAT)***
Modern Southeast Asian Architectural Heritage Preservation Project***
Asia Student Package Design Competition Project (ASPaC)***
The Reconstruction of Tohoku: The "DOOR to ASIA 2018" Project (designers-in-residence program)***
Grant programs: 48 grants

* Administered by the Japanese-Language Group
** Administered by the Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange Program
*** Administered by the Arts and Culture Department