The Japan Foundation Asia Center Grant and Fellowship Programs

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Multitude of Peer Gynts – an Inter-Asian (Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam and Sri Lanka) Theater Collaboration

Asia City Pop Network Research Trip

Pwal! Pwal! Pwal! – Stay with Myanmar –

Jejak-Tabi Exchange Wandering Asian Contemporary Performance

Regional exchange programme on sustainable community development through community learning centres (CLCs)

Empowerment of Indigenous Peoples of Asia and Pan-Pacific through Food 3 Years Project（Year 2）

Yamagata Documentary Dojo 3

Asia Plays 2019 Book Publishing and Launching

Theater Project on Environment Issue for Youth of the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan

4th SEAFIC Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab program, sessions 3 (2020-2021)

Asia Pacific Dyslexia Forum 2020

ろう者と協同する人形劇団、ラオス×日本の共同ワークショッププロジェクト

Culture and Art Hub Creation Project for Persons with Disabilities JAPAN×ASIA DANCE DRAMA ‘Breakthrough Journey’

（日）　アンコール・ワット修復人材養成プロジェクト（英）　Project for the Restoration and the Human Resources in Angkor Wat

Project for the Restoration and the Human Resources in Angkor Wat

Tokyo Docs 2020

Kolektif Asia

Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema Research and Screenings

Asian Arts Center Network

Jejak-旅Tabi Exchange: Wandering Asian Contemporary Performance

The Crossing Text: Between Mystery and Mystical

Art Access Adachi: Downtown Senju – Connecting through Sound Art

Towards the “Stories of the Community” as a Movement: Setagaya-Singapore international community theatre collaboration

International Platform for Cultural Policy Research in Asia

東南アジアろうLGBTQ会議2021

Sambor Prei Kuk Conservation Project

Creators’ Cradle Circuit Work In Progress 2019-2020: How to Make a Transnational Mobile Festival for Emerging Performing Arts in Asia

1st Ed. The Creators’ Cradle Circuit Transnational Mobile Festival and Platform

‘Revealing Contexts’ Meeting: Dialogue & Sharing through Social Arts

The Project of Training Technicians of Buddha Restoration in World Heritage Area,Luang Prabang, Lao P.D.R

Japan & Myanmar Partnership Movie Production Project

Once Upon A Time

Measuring Social Enterprise Research Exchange and Learning in Asia (MSE-REAL)-Phase 3

A Photography Workshop for Young Timorese Photographers

Research, Event and Report on Women Entrepreneurs’ Barriers and Solutions

2nd Japan Study Tour

FACo in LAOS JAPAN FESTIVAL 2015

Green Initiative Week in the Philippines

SEAShorts Film Festival 2017

2020 International Forum on Telling Live Lessons from Disasters

Asia Film Community

Exchange and Training on Human Rights in Myanmar

Japan & Myanmar Partnership Movie Production Project

Japanese-Philippine Conference For Urban Redevelopment Of Tacloban City

The community improvement in East Asia – Infectious diseases, demographics, urbanization and rural areas

2nd SEAMEO SPAFA International Conference on Southeast Asian Archaeology

KARNABAL Festival 2016 and Continuing International Exchange

Asia Performance Art Workshop

Mekong – Japan Exchange on Autism Sports for Tomorrow

Transformative Learning Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable ASEAN Community

Transformative Learning towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable ASEAN Community

Transformative Learning Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable ASEAN Community

Japan-Mekong Autism Recreation and Sports Festival

SCENE/ASIA : Movement Toward Active Spectatorship

Project for the Restoration and the Human Resources in Angkor Wat

WATHANN FILM FESTIVAL #6

Wathann Film Festival ♯5

Open with a Punk Spirit / Dance Marathon!

Skills Development in the Preservation of Wooden Structures in the Philippines

MAKE A SILENT – THE HANOI NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2018

Richard Sandaime

Understanding Your Neighbors: Exploring Narratives of Asian Society in Contemporary Literature

Instrument Builders Project Kyoto

ANIME-ASEAN

Developmnt of Innovative Bamboo Craft by Takayuki Shimizu and Indonesian Craftspersons in Yogyakarta

The Tale of Two Countries: The Future of Urban Kampung and Cityness

ミャンマー国立交響楽団支援プロジェクト2019

Tokyo Docs 2019

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2017

Heritage Tourism Research Project

Dialogues on Democracy with South-East Asia and Asia Opinion Leaders’Dialogue

Empowerment of Minority Peoples of Asia and Pan-Pacific through Food 3 Years Plan

SPEED,GLUE & SHINKI

VIVA EXCON CAPIZ 2018

ONE ASIA Joint Concert 2016

ASIAN BAKUON FILM FESTIVAL

Japan-Singapore collaboration project to translate and present a reading of the play COGITO

30th Asia Pacific Roundtable (APR)

29th Asia Pacific Roundtable

Joint research project on capitalism in South East Asia

Meikyu-kai Asia Baseball Clinic

Asian Waldorf Teachers Conference (AWTC) 2015

Japan Study Trip 2017

Japan Study Trip 2016

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Manila, Tokyo, FESTIVAL OF THE RECENTLY POSSIBLE 2019: Towards an Asian Network of Digital Art & Sound

Measuring Social Enterprise Research Exchange and Learning in Asia (MSE-REAL)

LAYAR: An Asian Cinema Heritage Forum

CINEMA CARAVAN in Indonesia -trip museum-

Extension of the platform for energy design and creative society in Asia

Fab life in Satoyama (collaboration project with Asian creative in Ibaraki Prefecture)

日本の文化である「ラジオ体操」で友だちの和を広げよう！2016

AIR CAMP 2016

国際共同制作『RE/PLAY DANCE Edit.』

Developing sustainable and resilient communities in the midst of climate change

Rising Indies!　Tokyo-Manila

SCENE/ASIA : Movement Toward Active Spectatorship

範宙遊泳×The Necessary Stage「範宙遊泳シンガポール滞在（リサーチ・WS）」

日本・インドネシア・シンガポール　国際共同制作プロジェクト　音楽/映像/舞台芸術『島嶼の王国-辺境の女性』

Japan-Vietnam preview of the collaborative film “Blowing in the Winds of Vietnam”

Asian Dramaturgs’ Network 2017 Meeting

Development of disaster technical assistance and crisis mapping for the earthquake in Aceh

Asian Dramaturgs’ Network

Asian Dramaturgs’ Network 2018 Satellite Meetings

Contemporary Asian Masks:Reconfiguration and Transformation

Building the platform for energy design and creative society in Asia

The 3rd Asia Future Conference ASEAN Roundtable “Religious Responses to Changing Social Environments in Southeast Asia”

1st International Conference on Asian Nonprofit Sectors and International Joint Research on Asian Nonprofit Sectors

Searching for A New Asian Order in the Indo-Pacific Region:IntellectualCollaboration of Asian Studies in Japan,ASEAN,Australia and India

Dialogues on Democracy with South-East Asia and Asia Opinion Leaders’ Dialogue

DigiCon6 ASIA

Yokohama Paratoriennale 2017

Asian University Presidents Forum 2016

Nibroll “Real Reality”Asia Tour

Nihon Ki-in Go Camp for ASEAN

Strengthening Japan-Thailand Research Network on Cultures of Transnationalism and Diaspora

日本を代表する伝統文化地区とホイアンの市民交流による新文化創造プログラム

Collaboration for the Conference-Workshop of Asian Composers on Reconfiguring Music,Nature,and Myth

Low Fat Art Fest: 100% Concentrate Art Pieces Volume II

Japan Study Trip 2018

Measuring Social Enterprise Research Exchange and Learning in Asia (MSE-REAL) – Phase 2

KARNABAL Festival International Idea Exchange Platform

【事業終了後更新】ミャンマーにおける人権に関する交流・教育トレーニング

Community art project in afflicted areas of Tsunami – Japan, Aceh and Malaysia –

Green Initiative Week in Japan

Philippines Classic Cinema Research and Screening

Population, Aging Workshop 2017 for Junior Gerontologists ‘Action Research for Age-Friendly Community’

Exchanging of Performing Arts, Asia

Vientiane Performing Arts Festival 2016

Community Art Project in Afflicted Areas of Tsunami – Japan and Aceh –

【2015】ANIME-ASEAN

Tokyo Docs 2016

AUN J クラシック・オーケストラ“ONE ASIA Joint Concert 2015”

Empowerment of Children through Educational Theater: Learning from PETA’s Creative Process of Using Arts

International co-production project of performing arts with Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thai and Indonesia

“What Price Your Dance” – A Lecture Performance on Dance, Work and Money

Japan & Thailand Collaboration “Sleep in Peace” (temporary title) by Theater company RINKOGUN

Asia-Mekong Music Exchange

Community Radios for promoting dialog beyond borders for building resilient communities

Asian Arts Media Roundtable

3rd SEAFIC Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab program, sessions 1-3 (2019)

Setouchi ASIA Forum

Setouchi ASIA Forum 2019

Setouchi Asia Village

Cambodia Opera Project 2019

International Order in the Asia-Pacific and Japan-ASEAN Cooperation

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2020

北村明子　Cross Transit project

ASEAN International Baseball Program 2019

Yamagata Documentary Dojo 2019

Asian TYA Network Programme

DREAM YOSACOY MATSURI in Singapore

★Month of Art Practice – an annual art exchange and learning platform

Asia Experimental Film Festival Meeting

The Karnabal Contemporary Cultural Laboratory

Indonesia Dramatic Reading Festival – Asian Playwrights Meeting 2019

Creators’ Cradle Circuit Work In Progress: How t Make a Transnational Mobile Festival for Emerging Performing Arts in Asia

BAKUON FILM FESTIVAL 2019 THAI ｜ ISAN VOL.3

32nd Asia Pacific Roundtable Conference

Akiko Kitamura Cross Transit project “Vox Soil”

SAKURA COLLECTION 2017-2018

ASEAN International Baseball Program 2018

Japan/Philippines/Thailand　Asia collaborative project

Mekong Hub for Cultural Changemakers: Cultural Leadership in SE Asia

DISPLACED : The RIKUZENTAKATA-Manila Collaborative Art Project

Wathann Film Festival #7

Preserve, invigorate and reinvent Beaten Bark Heritage in Indonesia: multinational collaboration project for save Wayang Beber

東南アジア島嶼部　異文化共同プロジェクト　『島嶼の王国シリーズ：ゴング三部作』

Inter-cultural project of Southeast Asian Archipelago: GONG Trilogy

Zine ＆ self publishing culture research

Japan, Indonesia Traditional Music Collaboration Project　“Japan & Indonesia Cross-Cultural Harmony”

one table two chairs meeting 2017

one table two chairs meeting 2018

Theater Project on Environment Issue for Youth in Philippines , Kapan and Indonesia

The start of “Mobile Toy Art Museum” Traveling exhibition in Myanmar, to nurture and exchange an intellectual curiosity through Japanese culture of play

Collaboration Workshop between two puppet theaters that deaf people join in Laos and Japan

Laos Athlete & Coach Supporting Project 2018

Dance in ASIA 2019 : Dance Laboratory Project in Indonesia

M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2018

The 2nd ASEAN-Japan Music Festival　

Our Future Life in Asia ~from Bandung and Tokyo ~

Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology (CALA)

Story of Communities: Setagaya-Singapore international community theatre collaboration

Play Campaign 2019 – Sharing experience of Japanese Adventure playground, the concept of Playworker and advocacy of adventure playground between Japan – Vietnam, in the meaning of modern education view for children

Yamagata Documentary Dojo 2018　

Japan/Philippines/Thailand　Asia collaborative project

Japan – Vietnam Collaborative Theatre Project

Kuricorder & Friends Asia 6-nation Music & Art Collaboration Project

Multitude of Peer Gynts: An Inter-Asian (Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam and Sri Lanka) Theater Collaboration

International Co-production — RE/PLAY DANCE Edit

Thai and Osaka (Japan) Creative Space and Community Art collaboration project

Research Conference in Facilitating Corporate Mecenat Activities and Establishing a Network in ASEAN countries

KOBE-Asia Contemporary Dance Festival #4 Jecko Siompo Program

Yokohama Paratriennnale2017

AIR CAMP 2017 in Rikuzentakata – Life and Creation

Asean Baseball Clinic

Akiko Kitamura’s Asian Dance Project, Collaboration Vol. 2 “Cross Transit – Final Chapter”

BAKUON FILM FESTIVAL 2018 THAI｜ISAN Vol.2

DigiCon6 ASIA

“ISAIA2016_International Design Idea Competition for Asian University Students” held at 11th International Symposium on Architectural Interchange in Asia

130th Anniversary of Japan – Thailand Relations Concert by FEROCI PHILHARMONIC WINDS

SCENE/ASIA : Movement Toward Active Spectatorship

HANCYU-YUEI × The Necessary Stage Stay Creation and Performance (Singapore/Tokyo)

SAKURA COLLECTION

Kuricorder & Friends Asia 6-nation Music & Art Collaboration Project

Mahabharata Part 4

Japan-Vietnam Collaborative Theatre Project Chekhov-Renaissance

Japanese and Southeast Asian collaboration project of performing arts

Research and Conference for Facilitating Corporate Mecenat Activities and Establishing a Network in Asean Countries

Cambodia-Japan Child education TV program collaboration project

Tokyo Docs 2017

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2018

JIWA: Jakarta Biennale 2017

Southeast Asia – Niigata Youth Exchanges Project with the Concept of “Community Development Backed Up by Manga and Anime Culture”

Asia Ice Hockey Skill Up Support Project

Green Initiative Week in Indonesia Joint Program on Green City and Architecture with South East Asian Countries

Population, Aging Workshop 2017 for Junior Gerontologists ‘Action Research for Age-Friendly Community’

Co.D.Ex. Dance Asia Collaboration

The project of investigating art works and exchanging experts of Art Brut in Asia

SEAFIC Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab 2017-2018 Program, Sessions 1-3

The YOUKIZA & Youth Theatre of Vietnam 2015 collaboration “WILD DUCK ADDICTION”

The 25th Anniversary of J J L’s International Cooperation Activities to Promote Legal Education in Cambodia

Symposium & Concert “Tradition and Creation in Asia Noh x Contemporary Music Vol.4”

Internet Friendship School Project in Asia

“Artists in Residence Human Resources Development Camp & Forum in Asia”

Laos Athlete & Coach Supporting Project

Japan Cambodian Collaboration in Traditional Performing Arts 2017

Empowerment of Children through Educational Theater: Learning from PETA’s Creative Process of Using Arts

International Co-production – RE/PLAY DANCE Edit.

Human resource development related to conservation of the Sambor Prei Kuk Heritage Sites in Cambodia

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2016

Vietnam and Japan to produce drama film “Midnight Sun”

The YOUKIZA & Youth Theatre of Vietnam 2016 collaboration “WILD DUCK ADDICTION”

one table two chairs meeting 2016

Seinendan + Osaka University Robot Theatre Project “Metamorphosis” Android Version Tour to Beijing, Taipei, Penang and Bangkok

ON-PAM Asia Meeting in Singapore

Meikyu-kai ASEAN Baseball Clinic

Theater Project on Environment Issue for Indigenous Youth in the Philippines and Indonesia

Papermoon Puppet Theatre (Indonesia) Residence and New creation performance 2017

“Cross Transit” Project

The Preparation for and Organization of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit

A Program to Promote the Citizens’ Exchange of the Western-style Building Towns for Creation of New Culture

Community Art Project between Japan and Aceh, Indonesia

The project of investigating art works and exchanging experts of Art Brut in Asia

Towards Building a Resilient Network for Regional Health Cooperation in East Asia

Sustainment and Development of the Platform for Asia, Women, and Performing Arts

Tokyo University of the Arts “Silk Road” Special Exhibition

Nara International Film Festival 2016 “OUT IN JAPAN×NIFF”

Tokyo Docs 2015

Asian Collaborative Project (Philippines, Thailand and Japan)

Cultural Exchange and Collaborative Production of Indonesia-Japan Traditional Dyeing

Exchange and Training on Human Rights in Myanmar

Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project Pan Asia “Mahabharata Chapter2.5”Asia Tour

Aichi International Women’s Film Festival 2015

SAKURA COLLECTION

Japan-Indonesia Co-production Drama “WHEN YOU WISH UPON A SAKURA”

Aichi International Women’s Film Festival 2016

Hiroshi Koike Bridge Project Pan Asia “Mahabharata Part 3” Indnesia Tour

Esplanade & Suntory Hall Global Creative Collaboration Project

Joint research project on capitalism in South East Asia

The future of ASEAN and Japan from youth’s point of view

Building Friendship through Japanese“radio exercises”

Co-production of Program and Workshop with TV Media 2015! IN VIETNAM

BANGKOK NITES

Esplanade & Suntory Hall Global Creative Collaboration Project

Contemporary Education and Family Life in ASEAN and Japan

Nihon Ki-in Go Camp for ASEAN

The 60th anniversary of Japanese and Lao Diplomatic Relations Movie Project　

DigiCon6 ASIA

Fab life in Satoyama (collaboration project with Asian creative in Ibaraki-prefecture)

Nihon Ki-in Go Camp for ASEAN

“ZETTAI RED” performed in collaboration with Singapore musician

Tokyo Drama Award 2015

Japan-Vietnam Joint Special TV

THE JAPAN FOUNDATION ASIA CENTERGrant & Fellowship Programs

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