Overview
Japan Arts Council is a public agency dedicated to preserving and promoting traditional performing arts
as well as to promoting and popularizing modern performing arts,
playing a vital role in promoting arts and culture in Japan.
The Mission
To present performances, train successors/performers, and conduct research on traditional and modern performing arts,
in order to undertake the preservation, promotion, and popularization of these arts,
as well as to provide financial support to arts and culture.
What We Do
- Financial Support for the Arts and the Cultural Sector (only available in Japanese)
- Presentation of traditional and modern performing arts
- Training of traditional performing arts successors and training of young artists
and personnel involved in modern performing arts (only available in Japanese) - Research and collection/utilization of materials related to traditional and modern performing arts
- Theater and facility rental (only available in Japanese)
- Organizing and running of the Japan Cultural Expo
Theaters
National Theatre
National Engei Hall
National Noh Theatre
National Bunraku Theatre
National Theatre Okinawa
New National Theatre, Tokyo
*Operational Activities related to National Theatre Okinawa and New National Theatre, Tokyo
are entrusted to National Theatre Okinawa Management Foundation and New National Theatre Foundation, respectively.
About the Emblem
- Yoshida Isoya, architect/professor emeritus of Tokyo National University of the Arts
Outline of Japan Arts Council 2023-2024
Click the image to download the annual brochure of Japan Arts Council.
