Purpose
This program is a grant program to partially support the costs of programs being implemented by organizations/groups that provide Japanese-language education to persons, including those who plan to come to Japan under the “Specified Skills” residence status system, with the objective of supporting Japanese-language education necessary for living and working in Japan. Programs that are planned to be implemented by the end of March 2021 will be eligible.
For application instructions and application form, please see the followings.
Application documents should be submitted to the Japan Foundation, Yangon, to arrive no later than January 17, 2020.
Points to be noted
-Applications will not be accepted through the Internet or by fax.
-Applicants are requested to notify promptly the Japan Foundation if any of the information given on the application changes.
-Once they are submitted, Applications and Supplementary Information shall not be returned. Please make sure to set aside a copy for yourself.
Inquiries
The Japan Foundation, Yangon
Tel: 01-430920
E-mail: nihongo@jpf-mm.org
Are you ready to join this month’s “Origami Club”?
This time, you will get a chance to learn how to make cute paper rabbits and beautiful pencil holders to put the stationery! People who love to do paper craft are very much welcome to join this event held in the Japan Foundation, Yangon.
At the Japan Foundation Yangon, we have “Origami Club”, a regular monthly activity, where the people who are interested in Japanese origami and paper quilling can come and try new origami and paper folding methods.
Join us to know how to make nice pencil holders and paper rabbits with easy items to give as presents to loved ones. Please register via Facebook messenger to join by dropping your name and phone number not later than 12 pm on November 15.
Origami Club
Date : 16 November 2019
Time : 10 am ~ 12 am
Place : Japan Foundation, Yangon, No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township.
Expected participants : 15 people (maximum)
Entry : free
Japan Classics Screening and Talk #5 @ The Japan Foundation, Yangon
(The Talk will be in Japanese and Burmese only)
THE DULL SWORD (Namakuragatana) (1917 / 4min / b/w, tinted)
Author: Junichi Kouchi
KUJIRA (The Whale) (1953 / 9 min / Color)
Story and Animation: Noburo Ofuji
Music: Setsuo Tukahara
YUUREI SEN (1956 / 11min / Color)
Story and Animation: Noburo Ofuji
Date – 7th November 2019
Time – 6:30 PM
Venue – The Japan Foundation, No .70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan township
After the screening, there will be a talk and discussion by Masaki Daibo.
Masaki Daibo�
National Film Archive of Japan�Associate Curator of Film�Masaki Daibo has been part of various digital restoration projects that the NFAJ has undertaken over the past seven years, while also being in charge of film acquisitions and managing preservation of the NFAJ collection.
Organized by:
The Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japanese Government,
The Embassy of Japan in Myanmar,
Japan Foundation, Yangon
Basic Igo Lessons for Beginners
For those who have been waiting for learning how to play Igo, long wait is over! We have the event of Basic Igo Lessons for Beginners where Mr. Kanji Tanaka will teach the basic ways and means of playing Igo. Come with your children and parents to this event to learn and play Igo.
Igo is the game with board and marbles. Since 2000 years ago, the game was played in China and nowadays it becomes well-known and well-played not only in Japan but also worldwide.
Please register via Facebook by dropping your name and phone number not later than 12 pm on 25 September. We will close the registration once we have received the expected participants.
Date : 26 October, 2019
Time : 10 am – 12 pm
Venue : The Japan Foundation, Yangon
No.70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan township, Yangon
Entry : Free
Expected participants: 16 people (maximum)
Language : English with Burmese interpretation
Mizuno Katsuhiko
Mizuno Katsuhiko was born in the Kamigyou ward of Kyoto city in 1941. He is a graduate of the Department of Literature, Doshisha University, and he completed a postgraduate course at the Tokyo Sogo Photography College. He has specialized in photographing the scenery of Kyoto since 1969. He has also contemplated the traditional culture of Japan, and so he has continued to come forth with works in the editorial category.
In 2000, he inaugured his own photo gallery spaces, the Machiya Shashinkan or “Townhouse Photo Hall”, opening it to the public.
His Landscapes for small spaces won the gold prize in the Home & Garden category of the Fore Word 2002 Book of the Year Award, sponsored by Fore World Magazine.
He is a member of the Japan Photographers Association and the Japan Photographic Art Society.
He has had 140 books published, the majority of which have been photo collections.
For this month “Saturday Yoke Shin”, we chose the Japanese drama “Bushido Sixteen” by Tomoyuki Furuyama who created the “Naoko Winning Runners”. The film will amaze you with the interesting plot and story of two Kando girl players and the competition among them.
Bushido Sixteen
With English subtitles
Synopsis
Kaori (Riko Narumi) is a intense kendo fighter who has been training since she was young. Sanae (Kie Kitano) is a girl who has only participated in kendo casually, but somehow manages to beat Kaori in the final tournament of junior high school. Although Sanae doesn’t particularly care about it, Kaori holds a grudge, setting up a rivalry that bleeds over into high school. Kaori wants to find out why she lost to the girl so she joins Sanae’s kendo club but is shocked by her happy-go-lucky personality.
The Japan Foundation, Yangon
Curatorial Workshop Call for Application
Introduction
What means to be a curator and what are the roles and possibilities? It is certainly not only assisting artists as is often regarded. Rather, it is in connecting and facilitating – be they artworks, artists, historical and social contexts, people and communities – to delve into social conditions and various discourses, to raise questions and awareness, or to share ideas and create dialogue. As contemporary art scene in Myanmar is blooming and continuing to expand, there is higher need for understanding the significance and cultivating the potentiality of curatorial practice.
Against this backdrop, the Japan Foundation, Yangon will organize a curatorial workshop to provide an opportunity to young generation of cultural producers in Myanmar who are eager to pursue curatorial practice. The three-day intensive workshop will be led by two invited curators from Japan and Malaysia to share diverse interests and expertise, and discuss various challenges and scopes of curatorial practice in Myanmar.
Outline of Workshop
“Social Issues in Today’s Myanmar”
-Ms. Che Kyongfa from Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
-Mr. Mark Teh from Five Arts Centre, Malaysia
November 1- 3, 2019
The Japan Foundation, Yangon (No.70 Nat Mauk Lane(1), Bahan Township, Yangon)
November 1: Lectures from Che and Teh on curatorship (Re: Contemporary)
Discussion
Explanation on how to develop a proposal for a curatorial project
November 2: Presentation of proposals by workshop participants
Feedback and discussion
November 3: Re-presentation on brushed-up versions of proposals*
Feedback and discussion
*The facilitators will select one proposal, and he/she will be given an opportunity to realize the project in the venue in the Japan Foundation, Yangon. More details will be announced during the workshop.
Application Instruction (Submission Deadline: October 20, 2019)
Applicants shall submit the followings to the Japan Foundation, Yangon via e-mail (info@jpf-mm.org) titled “〇〇〇(applicants name)_application for Curatorial Workshop”.
1) Information of Applicant (in specified format)
2) CV (maximum A4, 2pages)
3) Draft curation plan (in specified format, maximum A4, 2pages). Theme has to be related to “Social Issues in Today’s Myanmar”
4) Record of the past events conducted/participated by the applicant (if any) (maximum A4, 2 pages)
About 5 to 10 participants will be selected based on their application submitted.
Travel Support
For those who live outside of Yangon may be awarded with travel support (domestic transportation and accommodation). Please specify in your “Information of Applicant (9) Travel support request”.
Contact
The Japan Foundation, Yangon Phone: 01-430920/ E-mail: info@jpf-mm.org
Japan Classics Screening and Talk series #4
Title – Gate of Hell
Director – Teinosuke Kinugasa
(C) KADOKAWA CORPORATION 1953
Date – 10th October 2019
Time – 6:00 PM
Place – The Japan Foundation,
No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan township, Yangon
Door open – 5:30 PM
with English Subtitles
Organized by:
The Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japanese Government,
The Embassy of Japan in Myanmar,
Japan Foundation, Yangon
Free Admission.
Origami Club
Date : 5 October, 2019
Time : 10 am ~ 12 am
Place : Japan Foundation, Yangon, No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township.
Expected participants : 15 ppl (maximum)
Entry : free
Saturday Yoke Shin : September special
This month, we are screening the Japanese animation movie, “Children Who Chase Lost Voices” by the director Shinkai Makoto who amazed the audience from all over the world with his animation called “Five centimeters per second” and “Voices of a distant star”.
Synopsis:
One day, a girl named Asuna hears a mysterious song on her crystal radio, a memento
of her father. She is never able to forget it, as it sounded almost like someone’s very heart itself made into song.
On the way to her favorite mountain hideout she is attacked by a strange beast and is saved by a young man named Shun. Coming from a faraway land called “Agartha”, he tells her he came to the surface because he wanted to meet someone, and had something he wanted to see.
The two begin to open their hearts to each other, but Shun suddenly disappears and Asuna is not able to find him. It is then she hears the terrible news… Asuna refuses to accept it, and in school she learns of the mythological underworld from her new homeroom teacher, Mr. Morisaki. One of its many names is Agartha, a place where secrets of the world are hidden and any wish you have may be granted.
Just then, a boy who looks just like Shun appears before Asuna being chased by a number of suspicious men. The men are after his Clavis, the key to Agartha. Driven into a corner, the gate to Agartha finally opens up before Asuna and the boy. There, Asuna learns that the leader of the men is actually Mr. Morisaki who has been searching for Agartha in hopes of reuniting with his late wife, and the boy, Shin, is Shun’s younger brother.
With the entrance to Agartha before her eyes, Asuna makes up her mind:
“I want to see him, once again.”
Asuna, Mr. Morisaki, and Shin, each with their own feelings in their hearts, set out on a journey into a land of legends…
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