2024年5月のバックナンバー

2024.5.24

The 50th Japan Foundation Awards
―Culture Transcending Borders― <4>
Peruvian Japanese Association - Award Commemorative Lecture

［Special Feature 080］Since its founding in 1917, the Peruvian Japanese Association (APJ) has worked to support mutual assistance between ethnic Japanese and promote their integration into Peruvian society. This year marks the 150th year of diplomatic relations between Japan and Peru and the 124th year since the start of immigration. Against this backdrop, Mr. Juan Carlos Nakasone Oshiro from the APJ, which has supported the ethnic Japanese community in Peru for many years, delivered a lecture on the history of Japanese immigration to Peru, the contributions made by the APJ, as well as its history.

2024.5.24

The 50th Japan Foundation Awards
―Culture Transcending Borders― <5>
A Commemorative Talk Session by Ogawa Yoko and Ozaki Mariko

［Special Feature 080］Since making her literary debut in 1988, Ms. Ogawa Yoko has created excellent long and short stories one after the next, and has won awards including the Akutagawa Prize, the Yomiuri Literary Prize, the Tanizaki Junichiro Award, and the Noma Literary Prize, among others. Ms. Ogawa's novels, written in elegant Japanese, never cease to stir the imaginative capabilities of those who translate them into other languages, and as of mid-2023, 36 of her works have been translated into a total of 37 languages.

2024.5. 2

People-to-People Exchanges and Empowerment in ASEAN <3>
The World of 2050, Envisioned by Japanese and ASEAN Youths
2023 Exchange Program Student Participants Speak About Their Experience

［Special Feature 081］The ASEAN-Japan Youth Forum: Take Action for Social Change (TASC) 2023, an exchange program to create deeper mutual understanding between students from ASEAN countries and Japan, took place from July to November 2023. TASC 2023 was a commemorative project of the Japan Foundation and the Kamenori Foundation, organized in partnership with the ASEAN University Network, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ASEAN-Japan friendship and cooperation. The 30 students, selected from Japanese and ASEAN universities, were divided into six groups covering three topics. While learning together through online training, a field trip to ASEAN countries, and a training visit to Japan, each group collaborated to form an action plan to solve a problem, then unveiled it at the final presentation. In this interview, we spoke with six members of one of the six groups, Vertedu Ecowarrior, an environment and disaster prevention education group, about the results of their exchange program, which has been building friendships among students from different cultures for about six months.

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