News and Reports Archive

The Hakuho Foundation is now accepting applications for the 13th 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 has launched a new course on our Minato e-learning platform: Japanese in Anime & Manga A2 (School Expressions by Scene) Self-Study Course. This is an online self-study course for learning expressions used within an anime/manga school setting. This is for people with A2 level (Elementary) Japanese ability and…

On the 29th of April 2017, 22 teachers attended a Primary Japanese Up-skilling Level 1 course at Bath Spa University. The course was set up by Network for Languages South West and supported by the Japan Foundation’s Local Project Support Programme grant. The course was led by Crispin Chambers, Head…

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2017: Odd Obsessions: Desires, Hopes and Impulses in Japanese Cinema#JFTFP17 3 February – 29 March 2017 “The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme keep(s) going from strength to strength, and make(s) real efforts to get Asian films exhibited beyond the metropolitan hub” Anton Bitel, Sight…

February 24 2017 saw the return of the annual Japanese Studies postgraduate workshop, the sixth the Japan Foundation has held in co-operation with the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS), and the second to be held outside London. This year’s workshop held at the University of Sheffield, was attended by…

A huge OMEDETOO GOZAIMASU (Congratulations!) to all 20 finalists who took part in the Twelfth Japanese Speech Contest for University Students, which took place at King’s College London on Saturday March 4th. The 20 finalists had been selected from a total of 88 applications from 18 universities across the UK.…

The recent Japan Study Tour for Scotland’s Education Leaders, in which 20 educational professionals from Scotland visited Japan to learn about Japanese society, culture and education, was reported in Entrance, the local newspaper of Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture. You can find the original story in Japanese here. We have provided a basic…

As part of the Japan Foundation’s London’s support for links between Japan and Scotland, we will embark on a trip to Japan for 20 Scottish Leaders in Education. The trip will take place from 10th February – 18th February 2017 and will give participants the chance to learn more about…

Paralympian gold medalist Noel Thatcher MBE teaching a volunteer Japanese taster at Randal Cremer Primary School in Hackney These are some of the Japanese taster sessions that our volunteers in the Japanese Tasters for Schools (JTS) Programme have held in schools around the UK in 2017. We would like to thank all…

Ofsted have reacted very positively to seeing a popular Japanese club at Longman’s Hill Community Primary school in Selby, Yorkshire.  The school received the following comments in their Ofsted report: “Personal development, behaviour and welfare: OutstandingThere is a wide range of after-school and lunchtime clubs, such as a computing club and a…

On December 5th 2016, 26 teachers of Japanese joined the Japan Foundation for a resource sharing workshop at Conway hall in London. This event brought together primary teachers of Japanese to share their ideas about what went well with their Japanese teaching over the last year. The day started with…

On Saturday 5th November the Japan Foundation London held the first Japan Year Abroad Programme (J-YAP) Coordinator Conference at the Royal Asiatic Society in London. As the inaugural meeting of the new J-YAP Coordinators Network, the conference was the first opportunity for staff members involved in the administration of Year…