2016年1月のバックナンバー

2016.1.25

The Flourishing Sibiu International Theatre Festival: Its Driving Force and the Fruits of Cultural Diplomacy

The Sibiu International Theatre Festival was launched in 1994 in the city of Sibiu that is located in central Romania. It is now considered one of the most important theater festivals in Europe alongside the Festival d'Avignon in France and the Edinburgh International Festival in the UK. From Japan, the festival has invited likes of Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII, Hideki Noda, and Mansai Nomura to present Japanese theatrical arts to European audiences. More than 120 Japanese volunteers have also participated in the festival. The festival's contributions to international friendship, goodwill, and cultural diplomacy are highly regarded and the festival has just been selected as a recipient of the 2015 Japan Foundation Awards. We present highlights of the awards' commemorative lecture given by festival founder and President Constantin Chiriac.

2016.1.15

My Thoughts after Attending the Intellectual Exchange Programme between Japan and Europe in Alsace - Japanese Study Seminar

On September 21 and 22, 2015, I attended a Japanese study seminar "Everyday Life and Culture" in Kientzheim with Professor Kenji Sato from the University of Tokyo. It was a seminar that the Japan Foundation organized at the Centre Européen d'Etudes Japonaises d'Alsace (CEEJA), which has close ties with the University of Strasbourg.

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