Summary of Arts and Cultural Exchange Programs

Summary of Arts and Cultural Exchange Programs

1. Performances

  • Project celebrating 50 years of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation and 65 years of Indonesia-Japan diplomatic relations: Dionysus by SCOT (Jakarta, Indonesia)
  • Project celebrating 50 years of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation: concert and workshop on traditional Japanese instruments by MIKAGE PROJECT (Mahasarakham and Bangkok, Thailand; Shah Alam and Petaling Jaya, Malaysia)
  • Project celebrating 50 years of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation: ITO Kashitaro concerts (Manila, Philippines; Hanoi, Vietnam)
  • Project celebrating 50 years of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation: CHAI concerts (Vientiane, Laos; Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

2. International Creations in Performing Arts

  • SHIBUYA Keiichiro & Justine EMARD, Appassionato (France), Shibuya Keiichiro’s Android Opera® “MIRROR” (performances in Paris, France)
  • ISHIGAMI Natsuki & Nuttamon PRAMSUMRAN (Thailand), Parallel Normalities “Whispering Blue – I heard your voice from the back of a blue car” (performances in Loei, Thailand)
  • ARAKI Masamitsu, TSUKAHARA Yuya & Wichaya ARTAMAT (Thailand), Juggle & Hide (Seven Whatchamacallits in Search of a Director) (performances in Kyoto)
  • SHIRAGA Momoko & Lattanakone INSISIENGMAY (Laos), Asian Object Theater: Laos-Japan Collaboration among Deaf and Hearing Performers (performances in Tokyo

3. Japan Festival Support Program

  • Opening performance at the National Cherry Blossom Festival by MORIYAMA Naotaro, The Washington Ballet (direction and choreography by KANAMORI Jo), and WATANABE Kaoru (Washington, D.C., U.S.)
  • Project celebrating the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Kenya and Japan: Screening of the taiko group Ondekoza’s original film (Nairobi, Kenya)

4. Grant Program for Dispatching Artists and Cultural Specialists

  • Results: 42 grants in 117 cities in 27 countries

5. International Exhibition Participation

  • The Japan Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia, Architecture, a place to be loved — when architecture is seen as a living creature (Venice, Italy)

6. Art Exhibitions

  • Exhibition Tsuyoshi Hisakado: Polite Existence (Dubai, UAE)

7. Japan Foundation Traveling Exhibitions

  • 15 sets, traveling 70 cities in 40 countries/regions

8. Exhibition Abroad Support Program

  • 26 grants for exhibitions in 23 cities in 17 countries/regions

9. U.S. and European Museum Infrastructure Support Program

  • 4 grants provided in 4 cities in 3 countries

10. Support Program for Translation and Publication

  • 39 projects in 22 countries/regions

11. Networking of Cultural Specialists

  • Invitation of literary editors from Central and Eastern Europe (11 editors from 11 countries)
  • Cooperation in invitation of literary editors from Sweden (7 editors from 1 country)
  • Invitation of professionals in performing arts (6 specialists from 5 countries)
  • The Ishibashi Foundation / The Japan Foundation Curatorial Exchange Program (10 curators from 5 countries)
  • Ishibashi Foundation/The Japan Foundation Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art (23 researchers from 15 countries)

12. Sharing Information

  • Lists of recommended books for translations: Worth Sharing and Lifelong Favorites (website, brochure)
  • Japanese Literature in Translation Search (database)
  • Sharing information on translation and publication at the 75th Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt, Germany)
  • Children’s Books of the World exhibition (Tokyo)
  • Invitation of the 17th Japan International Manga Award recipients (4 recipients from 4 countries)
  • Japanese-French high school student exchange project Nakamitié (app)
  • Performing Arts Network Japan (PANJ) (website)
  • STAGE BEYOND BORDERS (online distribution of stage performances project)
  • Translation and Publication of Theatrical Plays (1 play, 1 country)
  • Doors to Arts of Japan (Japanese art and culture information video portal site) (New production of Japanese Design Today 100)
  • Japan Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia (special website)
  • Japanese Film Database (JFDB)

13. Japanese Film Screenings

  • Japanese film festivals and screenings held in 80 countries/regions
  • Free Online Streaming Programs JFF + INDEPENDENT CINEMA and JFF+ INDEPENDENT CINEMA 2023
  • Japanese Film Website JFF+

14. Introducing Japanese Television Programs

  • 287 television programs broadcast to 56 countries/regions

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