Japan Society
To enable the Toho Gakuen String Orchestra, Tokyo, to perform in San Francisco and to present a series of concerts at Philharmonic Hall, New York, July 1964.
to provide support in collaboration with the Ford Foundation for a three-year program of fellowships to promote cultural exchange between Japan and the United States in which the following individuals participated: From Japan: Kenji Aikoh, art editor; Hiroshi Hamaya, photographer; Susumu Hani, film director; Yoshio Hara, doctoral candidate in sociology; Saeko Ichinohe, dancer and choreographer; Masuo Ikeda, printmaker; Mitsuo Kano, printmaker; Yasuo Kazuki, painter; Yurichiro Kojiro, professor of architecture; Takehisa Kosugi, composer; Shin Kuno, artist; Sadamasa Motonaga, painter; Takeshi Muramatsu, writer and critic; Minoru Niizuma, sculptor; Daiyu Nishi, sculptor; Shinjiro Okamoto, painter; Morio Shinoda, industrial designer; Akiko Shirai, printmaker and lecturer in architecture; Hisao Sugahara, curator; Takashi Suzuki, editor; Hitoshi Tada, editor; Keisuke Tanaka, mosaicist; Shuntaro Tanikawa, poet and writer; Soichiro Tomioka, painter; Hideo Tomiyama, curator; Yoshiaki Tono, art critic; Shindo Tsuji, sculptor and ceramist; Masakazu Yamazaki, playwright, Masanobu Yoshimura, sculptor; Joji Yuasa, composer. From the United States: R. Miriam Brokaw, editor; Paul J.R. Desjardins, professor of philosophy; Yayoi Kusama, artist; Patricia Murray, translator; Meyer Schapiro, professor of art.
to provide for the production and distribution in the United States, in collaboration with NET-TV, of ten thirty-minute films of performances by Japanese artists
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