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Read Japan

The Read Japan program aims to make a wide variety of books from Japan available to foreign audiences by working in partnership with libraries, publishers, authors and translators.

Read Japan is comprised of the following three projects:

  1. Book Donations
  2. Translation Support
  3. Translator Training

Project News

[Apr. 16, 2012] Call for Applications
'100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan' Book Donation Project
Application Deadline: September 14, 2012
[Feb. 23, 2012] 180 Libraries Receive Books
Book Donation 2011

Recipients' Feedback

[Apr. 19, 2011] California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
[Apr. 19, 2011] Technische Universitaet Dresden
[Apr. 19, 2011] The Maldives National University
[Jun. 28, 2010] Hellenic Japanese Center
[Apr. 02, 2010] Uppsala University
[Mar. 06, 2010] Scripps Bolsters Japanese Art and Literature Collection
[Sep. 16, 2009] Park University
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