• 2024.08.30 An interview with the Representative Director of the Foundation, Nakano, was published in the Atami Economics Newspaper. [Interview with Upper Management in Atami, vol.1]
• 2022.02.04 One of the Art-related businesses supported by our Foundation, Studio FLAT, will hold an exhibition "Gallery FLAT" at Cotonier Garden in Shin-Kawasaki from February 18, 2010.
• 2022.01.30 One of the art projects supported by our foundation. WHITE CANVAS JAPAN 2021, has released a VR (virtual reality) and online exhibition.
• 2021.12.20 PROJECT ATAMI’s Atami Art Grant, Promoted by the Eastern Culture Foundation and ACAO SPA & RESORT, Successfully Closed
• 2021.11.19 Our Foundation's Representative Director and Recipient of Taiwan’s Cultural Council Award, Yoshihisa Nakano, Featured in Article on Website of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Website of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan
• 2021.11.18 Yoshihisa Nakano, Representative Director of the Eastern Culture Foundation, Awarded Cultural Council Award

The Eastern Culture Foundation has six main missions: (1) to hold culturally-themed international conferences; (2) to establish an award of appreciation for individuals who support culture in lesser-known areas; (3) to promote regional revitalization; (4) to support technologies which enhance art conservation and storage through industry-academia collaboration; (5) to actively recognize young artists and promote the purchasing of their work; and (6) to cultivate cultural enterprise in the East.

Art and the arts enrich our lives, add value to manufacturing, and create new sources of a strong economy.
The culture which we think of as “Eastern Culture” is not one in which expressions like “there is only one God” are commonly used in daily life; rather, we often refer to “the gods”. Furthermore, I think that we are a culture and cultural region that understands the essential feelings of the Buddha. Many like-minded individuals and myself hope that such an “Eastern Culture” will become realized.
Thus, I feel that with the start of a new year in 2021 we are entering an era that will be rich not only in material things but one in which everything — functional richness, design, art, the arts — is interconnected with the inner self: an era of “richness of the spirit”.

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