News and Reports Archive

The Hakuho Foundation is now accepting applications for the 12th Hakuho Foundation Japanese Research Fellowship. With the goals of further strengthening the fundamentals of international research into Japan and deepening international understanding of Japan, the Hakuho Foundation Japanese Research Fellowship invites leading international researchers of the Japanese language, Japanese language…

Japan Foundation London has launched a new directory of establishments teaching Japanese in the UK, based on the basic, public information provided by all establishments that contributed to our Japan Foundation Survey on Japanese Language Education in the UK 2015. This directory includes all schools, universities, colleges and other establishments…

The ideal school, Japanese food and Japanese literature were some of the topics explored in the outstanding speeches given by the finalists of the Nihongo Cup Japanese Speech Contest for Secondary School Students 2016, which was held on 18th June at Conway Hall in London. The 18 finalists, who had…

The Japan Foundation London will be waving a tearful goodbye to our Assistant Japanese Language Advisor, Mio Tsunematsu, when she returns to Japan on July 5th after working with us for two years. During her time at Japan Foundation London, Tsunematsu-sensei has had great success running a number of courses…

The Japan Foundation London is inviting travel agents based in the UK to submit their offer for the service of coordinating an organised group tour to Japan in this autumn. The necessarily procedures and specifications can be downloaded below. Because of the nature of the tour (i.e. most of the arrangements…

We are very excited to announce the release of a brand new online resource for learners and teachers of Japanese! “Listen Together : The Songs of Japan” 「みんなで聞こう　日本の歌」 is a site where you can search for and listen to Japanese songs that suit your interests and the level of your…

On May 28th 2016, more than 40 children and grown-ups came along to the “Japanese for Juniors” workshop held at Conway Hall by the Japan Foundation London, in which they learned a little Japanese language and culture while making origami Japanese dolls! The workshop instructor, Mio Tsunematsu, introduced the meanings…

JFロンドンでは、JFスタンダード準拠教材『まるごと 日本のことばと文化』を使っている英国の先生方に対するサポートを企画しています。現在使用されている、または使用を検討している先生方は、かんたんなアンケートへのご協力をお願いいたします。  なお、『まるごと』についての詳細はこちらの書籍紹介ページをご覧ください。 If you teach Japanese using Marugoto text books with your students OR if you are considering using Marugoto in the future we would love to hear from you. We are thinking about setting up more support for teachers in the UK, so we’d like to find out…

To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), the Asahi Shimbun Co., in co-operation with the Japan Foundation, Iwanami Shoten Publishers and Ferris University, is inviting entries for an international essay contest on the continuing appeal of the influential Japanese author’s works among foreigners. Soseki, one…

February 4th 2016 saw the return of our annual Post-Graduate Workshop, the fifth organised by the Japan Foundation in collaboration with the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS). This year’s workshop, hosted at the Holiday Inn Bloomsbury in London, was attended by a full house of 40 postgraduate students in…

On the 26th and 28th of April 2016 two groups of independent learners of Japanese joined Mio Tsunematsu, the assistant Japanese language advisor at the Japan Foundation London, to find out more about online resources available for Japanese language learning. The event took place in King’s College London’s Language Resource…

On March 7th 2016 nearly 100 participants joined the Japan Conference for Schools, held at the British Council in London.  Co-organised by the British Council, the Japan Foundation and the Japan Society, the event was an opportunity for teachers to network and share practical ideas about projects for introducing Japanese…