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Creating a World Together with Babies
Baby Theater : Effortlessly Bridging Age and Language Barriers
Interview with Mana Yumii of the BEBERICA theatre compnay

Creating a World Together with Babies Baby Theater : Effortlessly Bridging Age and Language Barriers...[read more]

Feature Stories

Ukrainian-Japanese Interpreter Vitalii Zhygalko: Using the Japanese Language for Business in Ukraine
*Interview by Robert Campbell, Scholar of Japanese Literature

2025.5.01【Special Feature 082】 Image: T......[read more]

Contributed Articles

From Study Abroad in Japan to Language School Management and Content Creation: My Goal is to Combat Global Poverty and Inequality of Opportunity
Sainbuyan Odbayar

October 30, 2024【Special Feature 082】 S......[read more]

Serialized Essays

Beyond Disasters - Telling the Stories <4>
Ishikura Toshiaki, Art Anthropologist, Associate Professor at the Akita University of Art, contributor
Rethinking Stories - From The Story of Ishi to "Cosmo-Eggs" (Part 2)

[Special Feature 074] Myths and history are passed down from generation to generation. How are these...[read more]

Behind the Scenes

The 50th Japan Foundation Awards
―Culture Transcending Borders― <1>
Report for 2023 Presentation Ceremony for the Japan Foundation Awards

［Special Feature 080］The Japan Foundation Awards, held for the 50th time in 2023, began in 1973, one...[read more]

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