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(Left) © Hideaki BUNNO GAGAKU Ensemble. Courtesy of the University of California, Santa Barbara. (Right) Photo: Kyodo News. As part of their Institutional Project Support… Read More »[REPORT] Lectures and Performances from UC Santa Barbara’s Gagaku Lab and Japanese Cinema Lab

The Japan Foundation held JFF Plus: Online Festival, a festival for Japanese films conducted online, for the first time in 2020. Read the report on… Read More »[REPORT] JFF Plus: Online Festival

Award-winning writer Hiroko Oyamada visited Boston and New York in November to launch her English-language debut novel The Factory (New Directions Publishing, 2019) with David… Read More »REPORT: The Factory: Author Hiroko Oyamada’s U.S. Book Tour

NEW YORK, November 16, 2019 – The Japan Foundation, New York hosted two panels, “8 Ways to Analyze Anime” and “Makoto Shinkai: Pioneering a New… Read More »REPORT: “8 Ways to Analyze Anime” and “Makoto Shinkai: Pioneering a New World of Anime” at Anime NYC

NEW YORK, October 22, 2019 – It had been more than 27 years since a full scale bunraku performance was presented in New York, this… Read More »REPORT: Sugimoto Bunraku Sonezaki Shinju

NEW YORK, October 6, 2019 – The North American premiere of Satoshi Miyagi’s Antigone, a production by the renowned Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC), concluded… Read More »REPORT: Antigone

© National Gallery of Art, Washington WASHINGTON, DC, June 2, 2019 – A unique and exciting art exhibition featuring colorful and lively collections of both… Read More »REPORT: “The Life of Animals in Japanese Art” Exhibition Opens at the National Gallery of Art

NEW YORK, May 5, 2019 – Despite excessive downpour, both Japan Day & Japan Night were resounding successes. Enthusiastic fans packed venues to support Japan’s… Read More »REPORT: Japan Day & Japan Night

Two renowned Japan scholars, Dr. Ezra Vogel (Professor Emeritus at Harvard University) and Dr. David Plath (Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) openly… Read More »REPORT: Conversation with Dr. Ezra Vogel and Dr. David Plath

Every year The Japan Foundation hosts a reception at AAS that aims to build a broader network among Japan specialists. The welcome address at this… Read More »REPORT: 2019 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Denver