The JF Nihongo Network

The JF Nihongo Network as the 'sakura network'

“SAKURA Network” sticker

Since the fiscal year 2007, the Japan Foundation has been building up the JF Nihongo Network (“Sakura Network”) with the cooperation of Japanese language education institutions worldwide.

The Japan Foundation expects the “Sakura Network” members to play a significant role in terms of enhancing the Japanese language education in their region or country by utilizing various programs provided by the Japan Foundation.

We hope that this network will develop and prosper in every part of the world, just like beautiful cherry blossoms, hence the name “Sakura Network.”

The Japan Foundation will work together in cooperation with the member organizations of the “Sakura Network” to enhance the quality of overseas Japanese language education and provide opportunities to learn the Japanese language.

Support Program for Organizations in Japanese-Language Education (Special Program for Sakura Network members)

East Asia

Members of East Asia
Country/Region	Member
Korea	Korea Association of Japanology
	Korea Japanese Teacher's Association
	The Japanese Language and Literature Association of Korea
	The Japanese Language Literature Association of Korea
	The Japanese Culture Association of Korea
	The Japanese Language and Literature Society of Korea (JLLSK)
	The society of Japanese Language and Literature, Japanology
	Korea National Open University (Seoul)
China	China Japanese Education Association
	The International Association of Chinese-Japanese Contrastive Linguistics
	Faculty of Asian Languages and Cultures, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
	Guizhou University
	College of Foreign Languages, Jilin University
	School of Oriental Studies of HLJ University
	College of Foreign Languages and International Studies, Hunan University
	Shanghai International Studies University Japanese Culture and Economy College
	Japanese Department of The School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University
	University of International Business and Economics
	Dalian University of Foreign Languages
	Renmin University Foreign Languages School Japanese Department
	TianJin Foreign Studies University School of Japanese Studies
	Huazhong University of Science & Technology
	East China Normal University School of Foreign Languages Department of Japanese
	Fuzhou University School of Foreign Languages Japanese Studies
	Japanese Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University
	Department of Japanese Language and Culture School of Foreign Languages Peking University
	Department of Japanese, Beijing International Studies University
	Beijing Normal University School of Foreign Languages Literature Research Center of Japanese Languages Education
	Japanese Department. SISU (Sichuan International Studies University)
	School of Japanese Culture and Economy, Xi'an International Studies University
	Yunnan Normal University
	Yanbian University
	Shandong Normal University
	Japanese professional, School of foreign languages, Qinghai University for Nationalities
	College Foreign Language Teaching & Research Association of China (Japanese Branch)
	Society of Japanese Language Education, Hong Kong
Taiwan	Association of Japanese Language Education in Taiwan
	Japanese Language & Literature Association of Taiwan
	Taiwan Application Japanese Association
Mongolia	Mongolian Japanese Language Teachers Association
	New Mongol Academy
	Mongolia-Japan Center for Human Resource Development's Japanese-language courses

Southeast Asia

Members of Southeast Asia
Country/Region	Member
Indonesia	The Association of Indonesian Japanese Language Education Studies
	Center for Development and Empowerment of Language Teachers and Educational Personnel
	The Association of Indonesian Japanese Language Teachers inJunior & High School
	Indonesia University of Education
	University of Indonesia
	Udayana University
	Gadjah Mada University
	The State University of Surabaya
	Darma Persada University
	Padjadjaran University
	University of Sumatera Utara
Cambodia	Royal University of Phnom Penh
Cambodia	Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center's Japanese-language courses
Singapore	Japanese Language Teachers' Association in Singapore(JALTAS)
Thailand	Japanese Language and Culture Teachers Association of Thailand（JTAT）
	Kasetsart University
	Khon Kaen University (Education/Humanities & Social Sciences)
	Srinakharinwirot University
	Thaksin University
	Thammasat University
	Chiang Mai University
	Chulalongkorn University
	Naresuan University
	Woranari Chaloem Songkhla School
	Suankularbwittayalai Nonthaburi School
	Pitsanulok Pittayakom School
	Phiriyalai Phrae School
	Benchama Maharat School
	Sri Ayudhya School
	Udonpittayanukool School
	Yupparaj Wittayalai School
	Thammasat Khlongluang Withayakhom School
	Chiang Rai Rajabhat University
	Siam University
	Rangsit University
	SILPAKORN UNIVERSITY
	Prince Of Songkla University Pattani Campus
	OLD JAPAN STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION, THAILAND
	Technology Promotion Association (Thailand-Japan)
Timor-Leste	Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e
Philippines	Ateneo de Manila University
	De La Salle University
	Philippine Normal University
	University of the Philippines Diliman
	Mindanao Kokusai Daigaku
Brunei	Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Viet Nam	Da Nang College of Foreign Languages - University of Da Nang
	University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
	Hanoi University
	Foreign Trade University
	Hue University College of Foreign Languages
	College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University-HoChi Minh City
	Ho Chi Minh City University of Education
	Association of Japanese Language and Education in Vietnam (AJEV)
	Vietnam National University, Hanoi - Vietnam Japan University
	Interdisciplinary Institute for Culture, Language and Education Fostering (CLEF)
	Haiphong University
	Ba Ria - Vung Tau University
	Ha Long University (HALOU)
	Thua Thien Hue Junior College of Education
	Ba Ria - Vung Tau College of Education
Malaysia	The Japanese Language Society of Malaysia (JLSM)
	University of Malaya
	Malaysian University of Sabah
	Universiti Sains Malaysia
	University of Technology Malaysia
	Malaysia Japanese Language Instructors Society (MAJLIS)
Myanmar	Yangon University of Foreign Languages
	Mandalay University of Foreign Languages
	Myanmar Association of Japan Alumni
Laos	Savannakhet University
	National University of Laos
	Laos-Japan Human Resource Development Institute's Japanese-language courses

South Asia

Members of South Asia
Country/Region	Member
India	MOSAI Institute of Japanese Language
	ABK-AOTS DOSOKAI, Tamilnadu Centre
	Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth
	Visva Bharati University
	English and Foreign Languages University
	University of Delhi
	Jawaharlal Nehru University
	Japanese Language Teachers Association of India (JALTAI)
	Teachers Association of Japanese
	Bangalore Nihongo Kyoushikai
	Indo-Japan Welfare and Cultural Association
	JALSTA-Japanese Language School Teachers Association
Sri Lanka	Japanese Language Teachers' Association of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka	University of Kelaniya
Nepal	Tribhuvan University
Nepal	Japanese Language Teachers' Association Nepal
Pakistan	National University of Modern Languages
Bangladesh	Japanese Language Teachers' Association of Bangladesh（JALTAB）
Bangladesh	Department of Japanese Language and Culture, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka

Oceania

Members of Oceania
Country/Region	Member
Australia	Japanese Studies Association of Australia, JSAA
	ACT Japanese Teachers Network
	Modern Language Teachers' Association of Queensland Japanese Network
	Japanese Teachers Network Tasmania
	Japanese Teachers' Association of NSW Inc.
	Japanese Language Teachers' Association of Victoria
	Monash Japanese Language Education Centre
	Japanese Language Teachers' Association of Western Australia
	Japanese Language Teachers' Association of South Australia
	Nihongo Tanken Centre
	Language Teachers' Association of the NT
New Zealand	University of Canterbury
	Massey University
	Japanese Studies Aotearoa New Zealand
	New Zealand Association of Japanese Language Teachers
Micronesia	College of Micronesia-FSM

North America

Members of North America
Country/Region	Member
Canada	Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education, CAJLE
	Carleton University’s School of Linguistics and Language Studies
	University of Alberta
	University of Toronto
	University of British Columbia
	Université de Montréal
	York University
	Huron University College
	University of Calgary
U.S.A.	Alaska Association of Teachers of Japanese (AKATJ)
	Association of Teachers of Japanese in Oregon (ATJO)
	California Association of Japanese Language Teachers (CAJLT)
	American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ)
	Japanese Teachers Association of Texas (JTAT)
	Hawaii Association of Teachers of Japanese (HATJ)
	Association of Florida Teachers of Japanese (AFTJ)
	Mid-Atlantic Association of Teachers of Japanese (MAATJ)
	Washington Association of Teachers of Japanese (WATJ)
	Northeast Council of Teachers of Japansese (NECTJ)
	University of Arkansas
	Ohio State University
	University of Colorado, Boulder
	San Francisco State University
	Georgetown University
	DePaul University
	Lehman College of the City University of New York
	Northeastern University
	University of Hawaii at Manoa
	Villanova University
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	University of Michigan
	Rice University
	University of Washington
	University of Southern California
	Japanese Language and Culture Teachers of Iowa
	Arizona Association of Teachers of Japanese
	Illinois Association of Teachers of Japanese
	The Association of Indiana Teachers of Japanese
	Wisconsin Association of Teachers of Japanese (WiATJ)
	Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese (OATS)
	Teachers of Japanese in Southern California (TJSC)
	Northern California Japanese Teacher's Association (NCJTA)
	Guam Nihongo Teachers' Association (GuNTA)
	Kentucky Association of Japanese Language Teachers (KAJLT)
	Georgia Association of Teachers of Japanese
	Delaware Valley Teachers of Japanese (DVTJ)
	Japanese Teachers Association Of Michigan (JTAM)
	Minnesota Council of Teachers of Japanese
	Colorado Japanese Language Education Association (CJLEA)
	Southern Association of Teachers of Japanese(SEATJ)

Central & South America

Members of Central & South America
Country/Region	Member
Argentina	Centro de Cultura e Idioma Japones en la Argentina
	Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
	Instituto Nichia Gakuin Asociación Civil
Uruguay	Asociacion Japosesa en el Uruguay (AJU)
El Salvador	Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas
Cuba	Universidad de la Habana
Guatemala	Universidad De San Carlos De Guatemala
Costa Rica	Association of Costa Rica Japanese Language Teachers
Colombia	HIKARIEN Japanese Center, Japanese School of Colombia Japanese Association
Colombia	Universidad de los Andes
Jamaica	The University of the West Indies
Chile	University of Santiago
Dominican Republic	Dominican-Japanese Cultural Center
Trinidad and Tobago	Centre for Language Learning, The University of the West Indies
Nicaragua	UCA Language Institute (ULI)
Panama	Language Center at the Technological University of Panama
Paraguay	Comité Promotor de la Educación de los Nikkei del Paraguay
Brazil	Universidade Federal do Amazonas
	University of Sao Paulo
	Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) Campus de Assis
	Universidade Federal do Paraná
	University of Brasilia
	The Brasil Japanese Center
	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
	The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
	Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
	Associação de Estudos da Língua Japonesa de Brasília
	Associação Nipo-Brasileira da Amazônia Ocidental
Venezuela	Asociación de Profesores del Idioma Japonés en Venezuela
Peru	Asociación Peruano Japonesa
	Colegio La Union
	Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Honduras	Asociación Honduraña de Becarious del Japon
Mexico	Mexican Association of Japanese Language, A.C.
	Liceo Mexicano Japonés, A.C.
	Universidad Veracruzana
	La Escuela de Idioma Japonés, Asociación México Japonés

Europe

Members of Europe
Country/Region	Member
Europe	Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe

Western Europe

Members of Western Europe
Country/Region	Member
Iceland	University of Iceland
Ireland	The Japanese Language Teachers of Ireland (JLTI)
Italy	Italian Association for Japanese Language Teaching
Italy	Ministero Dell'istruzione, dell'Università e della Recerca Uffico Scolastico Regionale per la Lambardia
U.K.	The British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
	University of East Anglia
	University of Edinburgh
	Cardiff University
	Dartford Grammar School
	Newcastle University
Austria	University of Vienna
Netherlands	Leiden University
Greek	Association of Japanese Language in Greece
Switzerland	Association of Japanese Teachers in Switzerland
Sweden	Stockholm University
Spain	Association of Teachers of Japanese in Spain
	Autonomous University of Barcelona
	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Denmark	Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Denmark	University of Copenhagen
Germany	Verein zur Förderung des Japanisch-Unterrichts an VHS e.V.
	Japanisch an Hochschulen e.V.
	Der Verein der Japanischlehrkräfte an weiterführenden Schulen im deutschsprachigen Raum e.V. (VJS)
	Universität zu Köln
	Ruhr-Universität Bochum
	Universität Hamburg
Norway	University of Oslo
Norway	University of Bergen
Finland	Finnish Teachers' Association of Japanese Language and Culture
France	Association des Enseignants de Japonais en France (AEJF)
	Centre Européen d’Etudes Japonaises d’Alsace
	Le réseau franco-japonais des lycées COLIBRI
	Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
	Université de Paris
	Université Grenoble-Alpes
	Aix-Marseille Université
Belgium	University of Leuven
Portugal	APJP-Associação de Professores de Japonês em Portugal

Eastern Europe

Members of Eastern Europe
Country/Region	Member
Ukraine	Japanese Teachers Association of Ukraine
	Institute of Oriental Language, Kyiv National Linguistic University
	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
	Ukraine-Japan Center's Japanese-language courses
Estonia	Tallinn University
Croatia	University of Zagreb
	Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
	The Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Croatia
Slovakia	Comenius University
Slovenia	University of Ljubljana
Serbia	University of Belgrade
Czech Republic	Japanese Language Teachers Association in the Czech Republic
	Charles University
	Masaryk University
	Palacky University Olomouc
Hungary	Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Hungary
	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem (ELTE)
	Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem (KRE) / Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church
	Budapest Business School
Bulgaria	St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo
Bulgaria	Sofia University
Belarus	Belarusian State University
Belarus	Minsk State Linguistic University
Poland	Jagiellonian University
	University of Warsaw
	Polskie Stowarzyszenie Nauczycieli Języka Japońskiego
	Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
	Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Bosnia and Herzegovina	University of Sarajevo
Latvia	University of Latvia
Lithuania	Vytautas Magnus University
Romania	Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Romania
	Bucharest University
	Babes-Bolyai University
	"Dimitrie Cantemir" University
	Romanian American University
Russia	Association of Japanese-language Teachers in Siberia
	Association of Japanese language teachers in Russia
	The Sakhalin State University
	Saint-Petersburg State University
	Teacher's Training Institute of Pacific State University
	Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University
	Moscow City University
	Far Eastern Federal University
	Ural Federal University
	Kazan Federal University
	Astrakhan State University

Central Asia & Caucasus

Members of Central Asia & Caucasus
Country/Region	Member
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan University of Languages
Azerbaijan	Baku State University
Armenia	Russian - Armenian (Slavonic) University
Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Japanese Language Teachers Association
Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan-Japan Center for Human Development's Japanese-language courses
Kazakhstan	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan-Japan Center for Human Development's Japanese-language courses
Kyrgyz Republic	Japanese Language Teachers Association of the Kyrgyz Republic
Kyrgyz Republic	Kyrgyz Republic - Japan Center for Human Development's Japanese-language courses
Georgia	Free University of Tbilisi
Tajikistan	Tajik State of Languages named after Sotim Ulugroda
Turkmenistan	D. Azadi Turkmen National Institute of World Languages

Middle East

Members of Middle East
Country/Region	Member
Israel	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Iraq	College of Arts-University of Baghdad
Qatar	Japanese Language Teachers Association in Qatar
Kuwait	Kuwait University
Saudi Arabia	King Saud University
Turkey	Ankara University
Turkey	Turkish-Japanese Foundation Culture Center
Jordan	The University of Jordan
Egypt	Ain Shams University
Egypt	Cairo University
Syria	Damascus University

Africa

Members of Africa
Country/Region	Member
Algeria	Universite D' Alger 2
Ethiopia	Mekelle University Community School
Ethiopia	Japanese Language Teachers' Association in Ethiopia (JLTAE)
Kenya	Japanese Language Teachers' Association of Kenya(JALTAK)
Kenya	United States International University -Africa
Cote d'Ivoire	Alassane Ouattara University of Bouake
Tunisia	Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes
Madagascar	University of Antananarivo
Madagascar	Fikambanan'ny Mpampianatra Teny Japoney eto Madagasikara (FMTJM)
Morocco	Université Mohammed V de Rabat

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