2016年2月のバックナンバー

2016.2.15

Showing Raku Ware in Russia

The Japan Foundation and the Raku Museum jointly organized the exhibition Raku: The Cosmos in a Tea Bowl at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the United States of America from March through June 2015, and at the State Hermitage Museum and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Russia from July through November of the same year. Artist Raku Atsundo, the creator of some of the pieces featured in the exhibition, traveled to Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and kindly contributed this article describing the local reactions to the exhibition and his interactions with Russian people.

2016.2.15

Resonance in Literary World that I Experienced in Armenia and Russia

The Japan Foundation (JF), in cooperation with the Publishers Association for Cultural Exchange (PACE) put up a booth to represent Japan at the 17th International Book Fair for High-Quality Fiction and Non-Fiction held in Moscow, Russia, from November 25 through 29, 2015. JF and PACE introduced Japan's contemporary publishing culture from manga to literary works and magazines. Author Masatsugu Ono, who was invited to participate in the fair, kindly contributed the following article, in which he describes the lectures he delivered in Russia and Armenia, and his interactions with local people.

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