Welcome To the website of The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles

In conjunction with the exhibition Fracture: Daido Moriyama, LACMA will screen a series of films that offer a raw, street-level view of Japanese urban life while also confronting such poignant, postwar themes as identity, gender, and alienation. These films, from the taut policiers of Akira Kurosawa and existentialist parables of Hiroshi Teshigahara to rarely-screened films by Susumu Hani and Toshio Matsumoto, shatter social and aesthetic taboos as they fearlessly delve into a bustling underworld of petty criminals, miscreants, outcasts, revolutionaries, and all other manner of stray dogs.

JF Nihongo, our original Japanese language and culture courses, are held at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC). The Spring Term started on April 21, but you can still register for Mastering Kana course, which will start on June 2nd. If you are a beginner in Japanese, please join us to learn Japanese with JF Nihongo!

Starting on June 4th, the Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, will be relocating to 5700 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Our telephone number will also be changing and all mail sent to our current address after the end of the month will be forwarded to our new address.

Please note that our library will be closed to the public until later this summer and we will announce our grand re-opening on our website. Also, our phone system will not be available from midday on May, 30th to midday on June 1st so please email us on those dates.