Special ambassadors

[Aaron Gerow]

According to the newspapers, the Agency for Cultural Affairs is planning 
to appoint, starting next year, a number of "special cultural exchange 
ambassadors" to go abroad and spread knowledge of Japanese culture. What 
is interesting about the plan is that the Agency plans to focus not just 
on traditional cultural arts such as kabuki and noh, but also on modern 
arts such as animation and, presumably, film. The newspaper article I 
read did not mention film specifically, but it did explain that there 
would be several dozen ambassadors from a variety of fields. Ambassadors 
will most likely be academics and other experts, and will be expected to 
stay abroad for long periods of time. There are also plans to send such 
ambassodors to regions such as Africa with as yet little contact with 
Japanese culture.

So I wonder who will get to be a film ambassador?

Aaron Gerow
Yokohama National University
KineJapan list owner
For list commands: send "information kinejapan" to 
listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Kinema Club: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html