The Americas

University of Pittsburgh

Noh Scholar Visiting Lectures & Noh Theatre Print Exhibition (January – April, 2013)

Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia University

Sending Japanese instructors of Gagaku and Hogaku to workshops

The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation

Publishing a bilingual compilation of essays

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Symposium on "The Artist in Edo" (April 12 – 14, 2012)

Europe

Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (UK)

The 9^th Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art on contemporary Japanese art (November 2012)

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin-Mori Ogai Memorial Hall (Germany)

Symposia "Mori Ogai, 1862-1922 – Encounters" on the occasion of his 150^th birthday (July 6 and November 23, 2012)

Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris (France)

Small meetings to promote the introduction of Japan and Japanese culture to France (several times per year)

The European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) (Sweden)

International conference: "Japan: What's Next?" (June 14-15, 2012)

Institute for Japanese Studies, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Conference on Edo period intellectual and cultural history (September 20-21, 2012)

Asia

Genron NPO (China)

The 8^th Beijing-Tokyo International Forum (June or July, 2012)

East Asian General Institute

The 13^th East Asian International Symposium ( August 24, 2012)

Center for Japanese Studies, Tsinghua University

Japan-China International Conference (September 9-10, 2012)

Intellectual Collaboration Group to Promote Market-Oriented Economies

Vietnamese-Japanese roundtable

Japan

Resonant Uruwashi Exhibition Executive Committee

Exhibition on "Resonant Uruwashi -New Vibrance in International Women's Urushi Art" (September 14-November 25, 2012)

The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language

International Conference on Japanese Language Education in Nagoya (August 17-20, 2012)

2012 World Shakuhachi Festival Kyoto Executive Committee

2012 World Shakuhachi Festival Kyoto (May 28-June 4, 2012)