Data

Program Activity Summaries
Summary of the Japan Foundation Asia Center Programs

1. NIHONGO Partners Programs

Indonesia: 168
Thailand: 127
Viet Nam: 64
Malaysia: 49
Philippines: 14
Myanmar: 18
Cambodia: 1
Singapore: 1
Brunei: 1
Laos: 4
China: 32
Taiwan: 36
Total of 515 NIHONGO Partners sent to 505 schools
Asia in Resonance 2019: NIHONGO Partners symposium and related projects
Japanese-Language Learners Invitation related with NIHONGO Partners Program: 50 Japanese-Language learners from 10 countries
Counterpart Japanese-language teacher training in Japan: 80 teachers from 4 countries^*
Teachers at secondary schools in Thailand who received scholarships to visit Japan: 14 teachers^*

2. Grassroots Exchange Programs

Cine Adobo Project
Society for Asian Cinema Studies
Match Flag Project
HANDs! —Hope and Dreams— Project
Singapore Fair (Rikuzentakata City) Youth Exchange Program
Grant Programs: 25 grants

3. The Asia Center Fellowship Program

16 fellows

4. Asian Leadership Exchanges

...and Action! Asia: Exchange Program for Students in Film Studies (published a report)
A Working Title: Training and Development Program for Film Screening Professionals (published a report)
Performing Arts Presenters Invitation Program

Short Term Invitation Program for Cultural Leaders

Norliza Rofli (Malaysia)

Asia Leadership Fellow Program (ALFP) Lecture Series
Japan-ASEAN Media Forum 2019
The Japan Foundation Winter Institute 2019^**
Travel grant for participants in the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) AAS-in-ASIA conference^**
Grant Programs: 4 grants^**

5. Cultural Collaboration Programs

Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s-1990s (Korea and Singapore)

Media Art Exchange Initiative

(Asian Meeting Festival 2019 (AMF 2019); Live Music Program: Imaginary Line; Exhibition: Open Possibilities: There is not only one neat way to imagine our futures (Singapore and Tokyo); The 4th International Symposium for Media Art "Open Media Culture: Collaborations, Networks, Exchange")

Asian Art Archive (catalogs and reports, web archive)
International Research Forum "Art Activities of Disabled People in Asia" (Bangkok)
Asia in Resonance 2019: The Breathing of Maps (Tokyo and Chiang Mai)
Film Culture Exchange Projects with the 32nd Tokyo International Film Festival (CROSSCUT ASIA #06: Fantastic Southeast Asia and others)
Visual Documentary Project 2019
Talents Tokyo 2019
Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival 2019 (Featured regional films, "A Master Class in Filmmaking" by Brillante Ma. Mendoza and others)
Film screening at Indonesia and Thailand: Folklore and Fantasy in Cinema
Asia in Resonance 2019: MASTERS OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA (screenings, talks, symposium and others)
Asia in Resonance 2019: SETAN JAWA –A Silent Film with a Live 3D Sound Concert
Asia in Resonance 2019: Fever Room by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Asia in Resonance 2019: DANCE DANCE ASIA—Crossing the Movements in Tokyo 2019, Hanoi and Bangkok tour 2019
Asia in Resonance 2019: Asia in Resonance 2019 Gala Concert
Asia in Resonance 2019: Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession, an international collaboration with Thailand directed by OKADA Toshiki
Asia in Resonance 2019: ASEAN-Japan Music Festival 2019 in VIETNAM
—prayer for peace—
Asia in Resonance 2019: Symposium "Transnational Collaboration in Performing Arts - Sharing the Unseen Process and Archiving what will disappear"
Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2020 (TPAM 2020)
Collaborative Project with SCOT (international collaboration with Indonesia Dionysus and Journey of Life)
Cooperation with the Tokyo Notes International ver. directed by HIRATA Oriza
Collaborative project with Kirari Fujimi: A new platform for performing arts creation in Asia (Philippine-Japan collaborative theater KIN-BALL)
Festival/Tokyo 2019 Transfield from Asia
APAF-Asian Performing Arts Farm 2019

Asia in Resonance 2019: A football exchange program "ASIAN ELEVEN"

International Friendly Football Match "JapaFunCup"

International Friendly Football Match "The Japan Foundation Bangkok Cup"

JFA Collaborative Football Project

Dispatch of Long-term Coaches: Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar Philippines, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam

Invitation: Cambodia (players and coaches), Malaysia (players) "International Coaching Course"

J League Collaborative Football Project

Dispatch of Short-term Coaches: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand

Invitation of ASEAN football league-related personnel

Judo Exchange Program JAPAN-ASEAN JITA-KYOEI PROJECT
The 6th Sanriku International Arts Festival
Sanriku×Asia Booklet Publishing Project
Asia in Resonance 2019: Earth Manual Project Disaster and Design: For Saving Lives
EYES for Embracing Diversity (EYES project)
Social Innovation Link (SOIL) program
Exhibition for Historical Sources Under the Japanese Military Government in Indonesia
Innovative City Forum 2019 Asia Center Session, "Reverse IDEA – Searching for New Coordinate Axes from Asian Dynamism"
Exchange with Southeast Asian Muslim Youth (TAMU/Talk with Muslims series) "An Approach to Islam: Religion, Culture and Society"
The International Symposium "Shared Values and Democracy in Asia 2019" (in Mongolia)
Modern Southeast Asian Architectural Heritage Preservation Project^***
Asia Student Package Design Competition Project (ASPaC)^***
Grant programs: 44 grants

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