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.

Background of the Establishment of Asia Center

Asia Center was established in April 2014 as a department 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. After eight years of implementing and supporting two-way exchange activities between people in Asia, mainly in the ASEAN countries, the Center was reorganized on April 1, 2022, and, the NIHONGO Partners Program that the Center implemented continues to run at the NIHONGO Partners Program Department.

From Sanriku International Arts Festival 2021, Kaminagahime (Princess of Long Tresses): An Asian Tale for the bamboo flute