News and Reports Archive

The Japan Foundation is pleased to support the participation of 21 students and teachers from 6 senior high schools from amongst the prefectures of Miyagi, Fukushima and Ibaraki affected by the recent Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster. From 24th July, they will participate in joint Japan-UK group workshops…

A record number of volunteers (32) attended our June 29th Training Day for members of our StepOutNet Programme, which holds volunteer Japanese taster sessions in primary and secondary school. After new volunteers were introduced to the basics of the programme, all participants had an opportunity to hear reports from two…

How to speak Japanese like a young girl, an old man or a bossy mother were some of the topics covered in the summer course of the Japan Foundation’s Talking Contemporary Japan course for advanced Japanese learners, which ended on June 23rd. Running twice a week for four weeks, the…

On June 18th the 2011 Nihongo Cup Japanese Speech Contest for secondary school students was held at the Embassy of Japan in London. The 18 finalists, who had been selected from 279 applicants from 19 different schools across the UK, all demonstrated great creativity, thoughtfulness and outstanding ability in Japanese…

The Japan Cultural Institute in Paris (The Japan Foundation Paris) has published a collection of summaries of the “CEFR – JF Standard for Japanese Language Education” seminars held in 2010, with the support of the Centre Européen d’Etudes Japonaises d’Alsace (SEEJA). It brings together the reports of participants in the seminar…

The Japan Foundation is proud to announce the artist Tabaimo’s representation of Japan at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Recognised as one of the country’s leading young artists, Tabaimo first received critical acclaim for her multimedia installation Japanese Kitchen (1999), which combined surreal, hand-drawn animations…

There will be a special event on Monday 23rd May to celebrate the launch of a global partnership between SOAS and Ritsumeikan University. Please click here for more information. 

The Japan Return Programme (JRP), NPO organises the Nihongo Summit by selecting and inviting panellists from among the foreign youth throughout the world who have studied Japanese. During a 35 day stay in Japan, they will present their opinions in Japanese concerning what they can do for world peace through…

On May 5th 2011, Japan Foundation held out annual one-day Head Start course for head teachers, curriculum planners and MFL leaders interested in introducing Japanese language at their school. The day began with an overview of the current picture of Japanese language education in the UK, in addition to the…

The Hakuho foundation is now accepting applications from non-native Japanese teachers in the UK that would like to take part in their teacher training programme. The programme is free of change for participants, and is an excellent chance for non-native teachers of Japanese to improve their Japanese language skills and…

The Japan Foundation is pleased to report that the William Morris Sixth Form in London will be starting a Japanese GCSE course from this September. It will be the eighth language to be offered at this school, alongside Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian, Persian, Portuguese and Spanish. The course will be…

Following her visit to London to speak at the Japan Foundation event Japan / Fashion – A Talk by Akiko Fukai, you can now read an interview with Akiko Fukai on the Dazed Digital website here.