U.S./Japan Creative Artist Shay Youngblood’s novel Black Girl in Paris will be coming to the big screen. Last year film director Kiandra Parks contacted her about making a film inspired by BGIP. This summer she filmed in living color, in Paris. Monique Wells blogged about it. http://entreetoblackparis.blogspot.fr/2012/11/black-girl-in-paris-coming-to-big-screen.html. In the coming weeks, check Shay’s website (www.shayyoungblood.com) […]
Educational and cultural exchange between the people of Japan and the United States is the foundation of a strong and healthy U.S.-Japan relationship. JUSFC encourages collaboration and partnerships between individuals and organizations who share a common interest in supporting the bilateral relationship.
The 2013 U.S./Japan Creative Artsts Guidelines (for Program year 2014) are now up on this website. Please click under the Creative Artists Program tab of our menu.
The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission congratulates Peter Duus, William H. Bonsell Professor of History Emeritus, Stanford University, on receiving the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. This award recognizes his contribution to Japan Studies in the United Sates and the promotion of mutual understanding between Japan and the United States. For more […]
This is the current version of a piece 2009 U.S./Japan Creative Artist Jane Rigler is working on for live performance for flute and Ableton Live. In it you can hear traces of people talking, coffee machines, a construction site, the street vendors in Kyoto and Tokyo, the Alaskan sounds of the humpback whales off Resurrection […]
2001 U.S./Japan Creative Artist Brenda Shaughnessy’s third book of poems entitled “Our_Andromeda” has been reviewed in the October 8, 2012 edition of The New Yorker. Click on the link to read the review.
Hurricane Sandy Relief November 1, 2012 Our thoughts go out to those affected by Hurricane Sandy. Emergency crews and relief organizations are hard at work helping those in need. Here is a list of volunteer organizations and relief organizations accepting donations: http://www.fema.gov/volunteer-donate-responsibly
