We would like to announce that “Yukata Try-out VI” will be brought to you on 14 September for all Japan lovers who would like to try wearing Yukata, Japanese summer traditional outfit. New bees to Yukata, people who have never tried wearing Yukata before will be prioritized for registration. The size of the Yukata is Japanese adult size (medium).
This time, we divide the event into two sessions so that people can join according to the availability. This time the limited participant is ten people ( 8 females and 2 males ) for one session thus we’d like to request to register if you are truly interested in the event.
We suggest you wear comfortable clothes – shirts without collar and pants not too long as you will wear Yukata upon your clothes. Do not forget to bring your ID card. Please register via Japan Foundation messenger by dropping your name, phone number and the session you want to attend. You can also bring your friends to observe and take photos. We will close the registration on Friday, 13 September 9 am.
As we will pick up the participants randomly, for those who register together with their friends in groups, we would like to inform in advance that there is no guarantee that everyone in your group will be chosen. We will contact to those who are chosen by phone in the afternoon of 13 September Friday. We would like to welcome those who do not get the phone call to next Yukata Try-out.
“Yukata Try-out VI”
Date : 14 September 2019
Tme : 10 am – 12 pm ( first session), 2 pm – 4 pm ( second session )
Venue : the Japan Foundation, Yangon No.70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township
Free admission
The annual conference held by Association for Asian Studies (AAS Annual Conference) will be held from 19 March to 22 March 2020 in Boston. The Japan Foundation, Yangon provide the travel support program for the scholars who are willing to participate in the conference.
For application instructions and application form, please see the followings.
For more information, please contact the Japan Foundation, Yangon via email or phone.
The Japan Foundation, Yangon
E-mail: info@jpf-mm.org
Phone: 01-430920
2020 AAS Annual Conference in Boston
https://conference.asian-studies.org/conference/
Japan Classics Screening and Talk series #3
Title – The Naked Island
Director – Kaneto Shindo
Produced by KINDAI EIGA KYOKAI
Year – 1961
Date – 12th September 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
There will be a talk by director Aung Phyoe.
Talk will be in Burmese translated to Japanese.
Organized by:
The Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japanese Government,
The Embassy of Japan in Myanmar,
Japan Foundation, Yangon
Free Admission.
At the Japan Foundation Yangon, we have “Origami Club”, a regular monthly activity, where the people who are interested in Japanese origami and Kirigami techniques. This time, we will make the Kirigami designs and cute origami rabbit. People who love to do paper craft are very much welcome to join this event held in the Japan Foundation, Yangon. If you want to join this club, please register via Facebook messenger to join by dropping your name and phone number not later than 12 pm on September 6.
Origami Club
Date : 7 September, 2019
Time : 10 am ~ 12 pm
Place : Japan Foundation, Yangon, No. 70, Nat Mauk Lane (1), Bahan Township.
Expected participants : 15 ppl (maximum) Entry : free
Introduction
The Naga people, residents of the frontier with India in northwest Myanmar. Because of harsh geographical conditions and complicated political background, their mountainous region was banned to visit for such a long time. Most of them live by their livelihood in the deep forests. Director visited their villages in 2016 (Feb-Mar), documenting the Music of Naga. In Shaplo village, he had a chance to witness the way they make a wooden drum; their traditional practice. He made this video to document the vanishing culture to for people to remember.
Director’s Profile (Iguchi Hiroshi)
As a recording engineer, Hiroshi has taken part in several music projects including musicians’ original compositions, advertising, movie soundtracks and theatre music, in Japan and abroad. On his visit to Naga region in 2016 as a Japan Foundation Asia Center fellow, Hiroshi was so interested in the Naga people and started recording their unique culture.
We would like to announce that “Yukata Try-out V” will be brought to you on 24 August for all Japan lovers who would like to try wearing Yukata, Japanese summer traditional outfit. New bees to Yukata, people who have never tried wearing Yukata before will be prioritized for registration. The size of the Yukata is Japanese adult size (medium).
This time, we divide the event into two sessions so that people can join according to the availability. This time the limited participant is ten people ( 8 females and 2 males ) for one session thus we’d like to request to register if you are truly interested in the event.
We suggest you wear comfortable clothes – shirts without collar and pants not too long as you will wear Yukata upon your clothes. Do not forget to bring your ID card. Please register via Japan Foundation messenger by dropping your name, phone number and the session you want to attend. You can also bring your friends to observe and take photos. We will close the registration on Friday, 23 August 9 am.
As we will pick up the participants randomly, for those who register together with their friends in groups, we would like to inform in advance that there is no guarantee that everyone in your group will be chosen. We will contact to those who are chosen by phone in the afternoon of 23 August Friday. We would like to welcome those who do not get the phone call to next Yukata Try-out.
2019 December Japanese Language Proficiency Test for Yangon and Mandalay
Application for Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) that to be held on 1st December 2019 in Yangon and Mandalay will be conducted according to the followings.
1. Test Date
1.12.2019 (Sun)
2. Test Site
Yangon and Mandalay
3. Application Form Issue Period for Yangon
15.8.2019 (Thu) – until sold out
Submission Dates of Application Form
N5 – 22.8.2019 (Thu) to 28.8.2019 (Wed)
N4 – 29.8.2019 (Thu) to 3.9.2019 (Tue)
N1, N2, N3 – 4.9.2019 (Wed) to 8.9.2019 (Sun)
*Number of candidates for JLPT in Yangon are limited to (9999) for each level of test, from N5 to N1. When the limit for candidates who have to sit for the test in Yangon has reached to (9999), other candidates have to submit the application form in Mandalay and take the test in Mandalay.
Test Voucher Issue Period for Yangon
15.9.2019 (Sun) to 4.10.2019 (Fri)
Time: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Venue: MAJA Education Centre
No. 66/A, Thura Street, (9) Ward, South Okkalapa Tsp, Yangon.
Phone: 09-962751373, 09-262602121
4. Application Form Issue Period for Mandalay
26.8.2019 (Mon) – until sold out
Submission Dates of Application Form and Test Voucher Issue Period
1.9.2019 (Sun) to 5.9.2019 (Thu)
Time: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
(12:00 -1:00 PM will be closed for lunch)
Venue: MAJA Office (Mandalay Branch)
1st Floor, MABA, Water Street, Block-1, Unit 6, Mingalar Mandalay, Chan Mya Thar Si Tsp, Mandalay
Phone: 09-255162533
5. Fees of Application Form: 1,000 MMK
6. Examination Fees: N1, N2, N3: 25,000 MMK
N4, N5: 20,000 MMK
How to apply
(Apply in Person)
1.The candidates can buy the application form from the venue mentioned above. After filling in the necessary information, please submit it together with the copy of your NRC card.
If the person in charge from the Japanese Language School submits the application forms of their students on behalf of them, please submit the list of their names and Dates of Birth together with the copies of their NRC cards.
(Apply online by e-mailing)
2.The candidates can download the application form from the Japan Foundation, Yangon website.
Fill in the necessary information with computer and send the application to the emails: jlptmyn.ygn@gmail.com for Yangon and jlptmyn.mandalay@gmail.com for Mandalay with the attachment of the scanned copy of NRC. After receiving reply, the candidates can pay the examination fees at the venue mentioned above during the submission period.
( The candidates can only receive the examinee registration number after paying the examination fees.)
If the candidates did not receive the reply e-mail for 24 hours, please contact MAJA directly by phone.
3. The candidates who will submit the application form in Yangon can only get the test voucher within the period mentioned above.
4. The candidates who will submit the application form in Mandalay can get the test voucher in the submission period.
5.To download
Important Notes
For candidates who do not have their NRC or have lost one , please bring one of the followings to submit. Other cards that are not mentioned below will not be accepted.
1.Driving License
2. Passport
3. Student Identity Card that has been issued by Public (Governmental) elementary school, middle school and high school ※No Private School ID accepted .
4. Student Identity Card that has been issued by Public (Governmental) university and college ※No Private School ID accepted .
5. Birth Certificate (for under-10-year candidates)
For detail information, please visit the Facebook page of MAJA , The Japan Foundation, Yangon website and the Embassy of Japan in Myanmar website.
https://www.facebook.com/MyanmarAssociationOfJapanAlumniMAJA/
https://www.facebook.com/JFYangon/
https://www.mm.emb-japan.go.jp/profile/myanmar/news/2018/new-60.html
For further information for JLPT, please contact 09-962751373.
Come join us to watch nice Japanese films at the Japan Foundation, Yangon!
Every month, on Saturday, we have film screening event called “Saturday Yoke Shin” where we show the films of various kinds such as drama, comedy and of various themes such as Yakuza, Samurai, high school, etc. For this month, we have chosen “Mameshiba” (幼獣マメシバ) and will show the movie on 17 August, next week Saturday. The entry is free for everyone! Come join us!!
Plot
“Mameshiba” (幼獣マメシバ) is a film adaptation of the TV series which depicts the journey of a middle-aged man with a two-month old puppy in search of his mother who has run away from home. The film has a rich lineup of established actors from TV dramas, films and stage performances under their belts, including Sato Jiro who stars in this film. One day Jiro (Sato Jiro), a 35-year old unemployed male who has never stepped out of his town, runs into Ichiro, a Mameshiba puppy with a red scarf around its neck. Ichiro turns out to be a puppy Jiro’s runaway mother had sent for her family to come looking for her. To find his mother, Jiro has to venture out into the world.
Good Morning
(original title: Ohayo / 1959 / 2013 / 94 min / Color)
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Screenplay: Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda
Cast: Koji Shitara, Masahiko Shimazu, Chishu Ryu, Kuniko Miyake, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada
©1959/2013 Shochiku Co., Ltd.
The film will be shown with English subtitles.
Talk by Dr. Aung Min
Talk will be in Burmese translated to Japanese.
Free Admission.
Organized by:
The Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japanese Government,
The Embassy of Japan in Myanmar,
Japan Foundation, Yangon
Synopsis
Several families live alongside each other in rows of small houses in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. One of them is home to the Hayashi family, comprised of office worker Keitaro, his wife Tamiko, her younger sister Setsuko, and their elementary school age sons Minoru and Isamu. The boys pester their parents to buy a television but to no avail, so they spend all their free time with the other neighborhood children ensconced in the home of a young couple with the only television on the block. Meanwhile, breaking wind becomes a fad among the local kids, and they pour their energies into trying different methods of producing flatulent sounds on command. Meanwhile, a minor dispute breaks out among the local housewives over fees for the local women’s association.
Tamiko admonishes Minoru and Isamu for persistently pleading for a television, and Keitaro angrily scolds them for saying unnecessary things. The children retort that adults say needless things too, such as “Good day,” “Good morning,” and “Nice weather we’re having.” Then they implement a new strategy: a vow of silence…
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