Before the inception of Collaborative Cataloging Japan (CCJ), video in the national archives of Japan remained largely focused on feature films. “Experimental and avant-garde work and even home movies needed to be included in the archives,” explains CCJ Executive Director and JUSFC grantee Ann Adachi-Tasch. “Individual artists had been using their personal grant monies to […]

Rural authorities everywhere are enacting pioneering policies and working to improve their citizens’ lives, and this is particularly true in Japan. The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission has partnered with Apolitical on a project to engage Japanese and American policy makers, public servants and other relevant experts around the topic on rural resilience. The goal of the […]