The Japan Foundation is Japan’s principal organization for promoting international cultural exchange. Opened in March 2008, the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, one of the foundation’s newest overseas offices, has been actively implementing a variety of cultural activities to promote cultural exchange and cultivate the cultural diversity in the region. It has initiated plethora of projects ranging from supporting of Japanese language education & Japan studies, to stage performances, art exhibitions, music concerts, film festivals and academic lectures and so on.