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The Japan Foundation engages in International cultural-exchange activities in cooperation with over 130 countries around the world, focusing on three major program areas: Arts and Cultural Exchange, Japanese-Language Education Overseas, and Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange. In order to
"The Spirit of Budo: The History of Japan's Martial arts" was planned and produced aginst a background of storng overseas interest in Japan's martial-arts culture. In this exhibition, we seek the understanding of viewers about the brief history of Japanese martial arts -from battlefield combat techniques (bujutsu) to popular sports or physical exercise tempering body and spirit (budo).
Exhibition in Novi, Michigan (sister city)in 2009. Will then travel to Paris, France. Exhibit brochure.
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enhance the understanding of Japanese arts and culture through the visual arts, the Foundation collaborates with overseas museums on a wide range of exhibitions from traditional to contemporary arts. The Foundation also organizes traveling exhibitions of paintings, crafts, photographs, design, and architecture. About twenty traveling exhibitions of various forms are being shown around the world."The Spirit of Budo: The History of Japan's Martial arts" was planned and produced aginst a background of storng overseas interest in Japan's martial-arts culture. In this exhibition, we seek the understanding of viewers about the brief history of Japanese martial arts -from battlefield combat techniques (bujutsu) to popular sports or physical exercise tempering body and spirit (budo).
Exhibition in Novi, Michigan (sister city)in 2009. Will then travel to Paris, France. Exhibit brochure.
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