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The Japan Foundation (国際交流基金, Kokusai Kōryū Kikin) was established in 1972 by an Act of the National Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an Independent Administrative Institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 1 October 2003 under the "Independent Administrative Institution Japan ...
Let's Learn Japanese is a video-based Japanese language study course for English speakers produced by The Japan Foundation. The two seasons (Series I and Series II) were originally aired on television at a rate of one episode per day, with each episode consisting of two lessons.
The Japanese Culture House of Paris (French: La maison de la culture du Japon à Paris) (Japanese: パリ日本文化会館) (also known as MCJP) is located at 101 bis, quai Jacques-Chirac, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Its purpose is to introduce Japanese culture to the French. It is managed by the Japan Foundation in France.
The Nippon Foundation (日本財団, Nipponzaidan) of Tokyo, Japan, is a private, non-profit grant-making organization. It was established in 1962 by Ryōichi Sasakawa . The foundation's mission is to direct Japanese motorboat racing revenue into philanthropic activities, it uses this money to pursue global maritime development and assistance ...
The Daiwa Scholarship is an educational programme that sends British graduates to Japan for 19 months. Daiwa Scholars spend 1 month studying Japanese in the UK, 12 months studying Japanese in Japan, 1 month on a homestay and 6 months on a work placement. Up to 8 Daiwa Scholarships are available each year. [1]
A 2006 survey by the Japan Foundation found 1,153 teachers teaching the language to 71,083 students at 385 institutions; the number of students increased by 29.5% compared to the 2003 survey. [1] [2] As of 2021, according to the Japan Foundation, 183,957 people were learning Japanese in Thailand. [3] [4] [5]
Japanese language education in Russia formally dates back to December 1701 or January 1702, when Dembei, a shipwrecked Japanese merchant, was taken to Moscow and ordered to begin teaching the language as soon as possible. [1] A 2006 survey by the Japan Foundation found 451 teachers teaching the language to 9,644 students at 143 institutions ...
Activities in an academic or cultural field have been presented by the Japan Foundation annually since 1973. [1] In 1985, Eleanor Harz Jorden was the first woman to receive a Japan Foundation Award. [2] In 2020, the award selection that continued for forty seven years was canceled for the first time due to COVID-19 pandemic.