Japan Foundation, New York

Japan Foundation, New York The Japan Foundation is Japan's leading public organization uniquely dedicated to international cultural exchange.

JFNY covers the following areas: Arts and Cultural Exchange, Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange. Please visit http://www.jfny.org/ for more information.

🌏NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: The Japan-U.S. Global Partnership and Japan America Society / Japan Society Building Grant ...
09/23/2026

🌏NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: The Japan-U.S. Global Partnership and Japan America Society / Japan Society Building Grant Programs provide support for Japan-U.S. collaborative projects and for Japan America Societies and Japan Societies to help implement their missions.

⭐ Japan America Societies (JAS/JS) Capacity Building Grant Program - supports capacity building projects demonstrating feasibility and organizational sustainability that will contribute to organizational growth.

Deadline: Fri., 9/30, 5pm EDT (next week!) 🔗 https://ny.jpf.go.jp/grants/grants-for-global-partnerships/japan-america-society-japan-society-capacity-building-grant-program/

⭐Japan-U.S. Global Partnership – supports Japan-U.S. collaborative projects that help resolve global issues of common concern and build partnerships among the necessary diverse professions & backgrounds
Deadline: Tues., 12/1, 11:59pm EST 🔗https://ny.jpf.go.jp/grants/grants-for-global-partnerships/grant-program-japan-u-s-global-partnership/

⏪This week's For Your Virtual Shelf revisits last week's recommendations featuring novels that retell classic folktales ...
09/23/2026

⏪This week's For Your Virtual Shelf revisits last week's recommendations featuring novels that retell classic folktales and literature. See the post below for more information and how to read these books for free👇🏽

🖌️ Looking for grants for 2027-2028? We are now accepting applications for the following Arts and Culture grant programs...
09/22/2026

🖌️ Looking for grants for 2027-2028? We are now accepting applications for the following Arts and Culture grant programs:

🎨 Exhibitions Abroad Support Program – Provides financial support for museums and art institutions that organize exhibitions, including biennials and triennials, introducing Japanese art and culture to audiences overseas.

🎨 Ishibashi Foundation / The Japan Foundation Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art – Provides funding and opportunities for curators and researchers to conduct visual art research in Japan and promote the field and Japanese art overseas

🎨 Support Program for Translation and Publication – provides partial financial support for overseas publishers wishing to translate and publish works originally written in Japanese

🎨 Grant Program for Dispatching Artists and Cultural Specialists – provides support for artists and Japanese cultural specialists who engage and participate in cultural events such as performances, demonstrations, lectures and workshops that introduce Japanese arts and culture overseas

🎨 International Creations in Performing Arts – supports organizations and individuals wishing to coordinate international creations in performing arts, including theater, dance, traditional/folk performing arts and video art between Japanese and international artists.

🔗https://ny.jpf.go.jp/grants/grants-for-arts-and-cultural-exchange/

⏳Deadline is Nov. 30, 11pm EST for all programs

🔦JFF THEATER SPOTLIGHT🔦🐎This week's film: License to Live Part of Cinephile Journey – KUROSAWA Kiyoshi🥛Yutaka (Hidetosh...
09/18/2026

🔦JFF THEATER SPOTLIGHT🔦
🐎This week's film: License to Live
Part of Cinephile Journey – KUROSAWA Kiyoshi

🥛Yutaka (Hidetoshi Nishijima) wakes up ten years after a traffic accident to find that his family has separated. To get his footing, he stays with Fujimori (Koji Yakusho), an old friend of his father’s from college, and attempt to revive the pony ride business that Yutaka’s family used to run. But Yutaka’s return, in the eyes of many around him, does more harm than good.

Employing Kurosawa’s signature long takes, shadowy compositions, and wry sense of humor, the film uniquely portrays a fractured family relationship and a son’s attempts to piece it back together after a long absence.

💻Watch this film for FREE this weekend!: https://en.jff.jpf.go.jp/movie/license-to-live/

JFF Theater｜Moved, Touched & Inspired

📃The Japan Foundation is pleased to announce an open call for Japanese Studies grant programs for the 2027-2028 fiscal y...
09/17/2026

📃The Japan Foundation is pleased to announce an open call for Japanese Studies grant programs for the 2027-2028 fiscal year.

These fellowship opportunities and institutional support programs assist in the development of Japanese Studies in the United States.

Programs open for applications:

Japanese Studies Fellowship Programs
Institutional Project Support (IPS) Program**
Institutional Project Support (IPS) - Small Grant Program**
U.S.-Southeast Asia-Japan Collaboration and Exchange Initiative**

** - these grant programs require a concept paper to be submitted prior to the application.

Concept Paper deadline: Oct. 31
Application deadline for all programs: Dec. 1

🔗Learn more about our Japanese Studies grant programs: https://ny.jpf.go.jp/grants/grants-for-japanese-studies/

Interested in our Fellowship programs? We will host a session about the Japanese Studies Fellowship application on Zoom, 10/7 at 6pm. the Japanese Studies team at JFNY will explain the application process for the Long-Term, Short-Term and Doctoral Fellowships, as well as answer any specific questions that potential applicants may have.

To register for the Fellowship Zoom session: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tGak_j2TRz-VDhxZ8iATUA

Our recommendations this week highlight novels that take folktales and classic literature and reimagine them as new sett...
09/16/2026

Our recommendations this week highlight novels that take folktales and classic literature and reimagine them as new settings and characters while maintaining the classic stories readers enjoy.

🪽THIS WEEK’S THEME: Retelling of the Classics

📚THIS WEEK’S BOOKS:
A True Novel by Minae Mizumura – a retelling of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights set in postwar Japan that dives into Japan’s westernization and the emergence of the middle class and emphasizes the power of storytelling – https://tinyurl.com/truenovelmizumura

Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda – Rich, millennia-old Japanese folktales are reinvented, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged and transformed by the sometimes-visible forces that surround them – https://tinyurl.com/wherethewildladiesarematsuda

💻Looking for something different? To find & pick your next read, visit: libbyapp.com/library/jf

📇Don't have a library card for the digital library? Learn more on how you can get one here: jflalc.org/libby

The JF USA Digital Library is operated in partnership with The Japan Foundation, Toronto & The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles　国際交流基金ロサンゼルス日本文化センター

From 9/17-11/29: Amant presents "The Mud Room: Itinerant Artists, Folk Spectacles, and Painted Walls," an exhibition cre...
09/15/2026

From 9/17-11/29: Amant presents "The Mud Room: Itinerant Artists, Folk Spectacles, and Painted Walls," an exhibition created by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and developed with visiting collaborators Natsuko Uchino and Kazunori Hamana that brings histories of craft as performance onto the stage. 🔗https://ny.jpf.go.jp/event/the-mud-room-itinerant-artists-folk-spectacles-and-painted-walls/

Supported through the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture🔗https://ny.jpf.go.jp/grants/grants/jfny-grant-for-arts-culture/


📸 Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Natsuko Uchino’s Keramikos 4, 2022. Photographed by Justin Piperger

🎨On view from 9/23 thru 2/7/27: Asia Society Texas Center presents Yosh*taka Amano: Big Bang, an exhibition surveying ap...
09/14/2026

🎨On view from 9/23 thru 2/7/27: Asia Society Texas Center presents Yosh*taka Amano: Big Bang, an exhibition surveying approximately 30 years of Amano's distinct multimedia paintings, introducing visitors to his spellbinding visual arts lexicon. 🔗https://ny.jpf.go.jp/event/yosh*taka-amano-big-bang/

Supported through the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture 🔗https://ny.jpf.go.jp/grants/grants/jfny-grant-for-arts-culture/


📸 Yosh*taka Amano, ‘Big Bang,’ 2018. Automotive paint on aluminum. Courtesy the artist and LOMEX, New York. Photo by Kevin Todora.

🎨Now on view until 1/3/27: Princeton University Art Museum presents Takeda Hideo’s Genpei: Defying Authority, a bold and...
09/11/2026

🎨Now on view until 1/3/27: Princeton University Art Museum presents Takeda Hideo’s Genpei: Defying Authority, a bold and satirical reimagining of the legendary conflict between the Genji and Heike clans. The exhibition re-situates the series within Takeda's career as a satirical cartoonist and in relation to a broader tendency to challenge outdated stereotypes and hypocritical values amid a wave of social and political upheaval in late twentieth-century Japan. 🔗https://ny.jpf.go.jp/event/takeda-hideos-genpei-defying-authority/

Supported through the Exhibitions Abroad Support Program🔗https://ny.jpf.go.jp/grants/grants/exhibitions-abroad-program/

📸Takeda Hideo 武田 秀雄, The Final Illness of Taira Kiyomori (Taira Kiyomori no byōshi 平清盛病死), from the series Genpei 源平, 1985. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund. © Takeda Hideo.

🎎On 10/11, 10am in Englewood Cliffs, NJ: The Japanese Children’s Society will host its free annual bazaar, featuring a s...
09/10/2026

🎎On 10/11, 10am in Englewood Cliffs, NJ: The Japanese Children’s Society will host its free annual bazaar, featuring a sushi-making experience as well as vendors selling seafood, sweets, desserts, and more.

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