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JFNY News & Events
Summer Institute 2017
Language Course - Spring
Summer Language Course
Piece with gaps for each other
Shank's Mare
East Meets West Brunch
Resonance II
World Heritage Photo Exhibit
Japan Festival Boston
Canversation Café
Womenomics in Japan
Japan Workshop
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CGP News & Events
2016-17 Abe Fellows
Manga/Comics and Translation
Working Hours in Japan
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We are pleased to announce the selection of ten Abe Fellows and four Abe Journalism Fellows for the 2016-2017 cycle. These two fellowships are designed to encourage research and coverage on topics of pressing global concern. The programs are administered by the Social Science Research Council with support from CGP and the American Council of Learned Societies. For information on the fellows and the issues that they will be addressing, please see this announcement.
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Deadline: April 30
This year's Summer Institute aims to provide opportunities for young researchers and graduate students to improve their research methods and abilities, and to build a trilateral network of researchers from Japan, the U.S., and Southeast Asia. Applications are open to graduate students and scholars affiliated with an institution of higher education or research institution in Japan, the U.S., or one of the 10 ASEAN countries in Southeast Asia. Postdoctoral researchers are also eligible to apply. For more information, please click here.
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April 17 - July 10
 Now accepting registration for the JF Japanese Language Course - Spring 2017 (April 17 - July 10). Our course focuses on what learners "can do" using Japanese in practical settings and also on exploring Japanese culture. Sign up now to secure your spot! Please visit our website for more information. |
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July 5 - July 25
 Summer Intensive Course for Teens (Grade 9-12) will be back this July by popular demand! This is a great opportunity for high school students to learn Japanese language and explore Japanese culture through fun activities (Tanabata Star Festival and Japanese Calligraphy). Register early before all spots are taken! Please visit our website for more information.
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March 29 - April 1, 8pm
The Chocolate Factory (Queens, NY)
In a multi-lateral international collaboration, American choreographer Ursula Eagly, Japanese composer Kohji Setoh, and Mexican artist Martín Lanz Landázuri have been working together to create a bold new performance piece. This event is supported by the Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program.
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Created by American puppet artist Tom Lee and Japanese master puppeteer Koryu Nishikawa V, Shank's Mare is the story of two wandering travelers whose paths intersect in time and space. This beautiful and detailed production combines Japanese traditional puppetry, live video projection of miniature sets, and a haunting score on hammered dulcimer and Japanese shamisen and flute. This tour is supported by the Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program.
Koryu Nishikawa V will also make his appearance at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, GA on April 1 and 2 to present short traditional and contemporary puppetry pieces in the Kuruma Ningyo style.
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Top, from left to right: Erena Terakubo, Shunzo Ohno, Mao Soné
Bottom, from left to right: Yoko Miwa, Meg Okura & Noriko Ueda
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Blue Note Jazz Club and the Japan Foundation present the
East Meets West Brunch
series to introduce Japanese jazz to New York audiences. This brunch series will take place on Sundays in April at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York.
Performance Schedule
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April 28, 8pm & 29, 3pm
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (Queens, NY)
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© Kenji Mori
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Resonance II will premier as Miki Orihara's second program in a series of solo concerts, following the success of her first concert entitled Resonance. In this second concert series, Orihara continues to use her intimate knowledge of classical modern dance to inform her personal view of contemporary work, while simultaneously using her contemporary explorations as a vessel to shed new light on her understanding and interpretation of works brought to us by past masters. This event is supported under the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture.
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April 5 - 25
Tokyo Electron U.S. Holdings Inc. Lobby (Austin, TX)
 The Japan Foundation is pleased to loan photographs of World Heritage sites in Japan by photographer Kazuyoshi Miyoshi to be exhibited in the lobby of Tokyo Electron U.S. Holdings Inc. in Austin, Texas. For details regarding the Japanese World Heritage photo works and their loans, please click here.
Photo: Jisho-ji (Ginkaku-ji) Temple © Kazuyoshi Miyoshi / PPS
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April 30
Boston Common (Boston, MA)
An outdoor "matsuri" experience in Boston with over 30,000 attendees in 2015 and 60,000 attendees at the 2016 event, Japan Festival Boston has doubled in scale and brought over 100 booths presenting Japanese culture and food to Boston Common. Traditional Japanese dance and music and a very popular cosplay contest will take place on stage. It is a big spring event widely enjoyed by people of all ages not just as entertainment, but also as a cultural learning experience. This event is supported under the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture.
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April 13, 6:30pm
The Nippon Club (New York, NY)
 Come join JF Japanese Language Course Conversation Cafe for fun and interactive conversation! We will offer great opportunities to share useful information, refresh your memory, and make new friends.
All levels are welcome! Space is limited and RSVP is required. Please click our website
for more information.
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This lecture by Dr. Linda Hasunama is part of Johns Hopkins University's East Asian Studies Program Spring 2017 Speaker Series. The lecture is partially supported under the Institutional Project Support (IPS) Grant Program.
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April 6, 12:40pm - 2:05pm
Baruch College, CUNY (New York, NY)
This symposium invites scholars, translators, and professionals to discuss various processes and challenges of translating Japanese-language comics (manga) into English. It will illuminate the relatively invisible "work" of manga/comics translators, including their skills and challenges. For further event details and registration, please visit their website. This event is partially supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.
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April 27, 12pm - 1:30pm
Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
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Professor Hiroshi Ono
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The Japanese government has introduced legislation and corporations have modified their policies to help employees strike a better work-life balance. Yet, working hours in Japan have remained virtually unchanged since the 1990s. In this talk, Professor Hiroshi Ono (Hitotsubashi University) argues that the true causes of long working hours lie not in the "observable" barriers such as compensation schemes, public policy and law, but rather are embedded in "unobservable" or "unmeasurable" attributes such as social norms and work conventions. For details and to RSVP, please visit the event website. This lecture is supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.
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This workshop is part of Johns Hopkins University's East Asian Studies Program Spring 2017 Speaker Series. The workshop is partially supported under the Institutional Project Support (IPS) Grant Program. Please visit their website for RSVP details.
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For inquiries regarding Arts & Cultural Exchange, Japanese Studies or Japanese-Language Education, please contact: info@jfny.org
For inquiries regarding Center for Global
Partnership, please contact:
info@cgp.org
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