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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.

Photo of Online Seminar Series "Asia Center TERAKOYA" video recordingPhoto of the online lesson support by former NIHONGO PartnersPhoto of the streaming "JAPAN-ASEAN JITA-KYOEI PROJECT" seminar

Left: Online Seminar Series "Asia Center TERAKOYA" (c) SATO Motoi
Center: Online lesson support by person with former NIHONGO Partners
Right: Streaming "JAPAN-ASEAN JITA-KYOEI PROJECT" seminar

Background of the Establishment of Asia Center

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

Support for Japanese-Language Learning
Students taught (total): 678,650 students
Number of NIHONGO Partners dispatched (total): 2,375 persons
Arts and Cultural Exchange
Number of events organized/supported: 2,504
Participants (total): 5,538,490 participants

* Accumulative total from FY2014 to FY2020