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Japan Society was soon incorporated under New York law and finally found a home near one of Russell's work offices, though it continued to relocate throughout its history before its current headquarters was opened in 1971. At this time, Japan Society and its members began to express interest in improving teaching about Japan in the United States.
Soon after, she began working for Japan House, now called Japan Society, to introduce the arts and culture of Japan into the New York City Tri-State area public schools. [citation needed]
JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film is an annual festival of modern Japanese cinema held at New York City's Japan Society. The festival was first held in 2007, [1] growing out of the Japan Society's popular bi-annual series, New Films from Japan.
As of the 2000 Census, over half of the 37,279 people of Japanese ancestry in the U.S. state of New York lived in New York City. [2] As of 2012, the New York City metropolitan area was home to the largest Japanese community on the East Coast of the United States. [3] The community has grown to the point that the first annual Japan Day Parade, the largest outside Japan, took place in Manhattan ...
Beate Sirota Gordon ( / beɪˈɑːteɪ /; October 25, 1923 – December 30, 2012) was an Austrian and American performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate. Born in Vienna, Austria, she moved to the Empire of Japan in 1929 with her father, the pianist Leo Sirota. After graduating from the American School in Japan, she moved to Oakland ...
Little Boy exhibition was presented at Japan Society in conjunction with the Public Art Fund between April 8 to July 24, 2005 in New York. The exhibition consisted of four public art projects that explored the phenomenon otaku, a subculture consisting of science fiction, manga and anime.
Prior to the Guggenheim, Munroe was an independent curator based in New York and Tokyo before, in 1998, becoming Director of Japan Society Gallery, and later, Vice President of Arts and Culture at Japan Society, an American organization dedicated to cultural and policy exchange between Japan and the United States.
Motoatsu Sakurai (桜井 本篤, Sakurai Motoatsu) (born May 24, 1944) is a Japanese businessman, a corporate executive in the private and public sectors, a diplomat, and president of the Japan Society in New York. After graduating from Tokyo University Faculty of Law in 1968, he entered Mitsubishi Corporation (MC).