Using our worldwide network of routes, the JAL Group helps exhibition organizers worldwide to transport art and artifacts for display in Japan. The Group also assists curators and other exhibition-related personnel with their travel arrangements. In FY2004, we assisted 62 exhibitions to come to Japan, which in terms of attendance accounted for 70% of the top 20 foreign art exhibitions held in Japan.
Through “Tokyo Opinions,” a stage arts support group, JAL has supported the Art Sphere Theater in Tennozu, Tokyo. JAL is also a corporate member of the Mori Art Museum at Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, a supporting member of the New National Theater Tokyo Managing Foundation; and supports the operation of art museums and theaters.

Major Art Exhibitions Supported by JAL in Japan

JAL supported the Flemish and Dutch Paintings from the Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien; Picasso Exhibit; MOMA Collection Special Exhibition; Mucha Exhibition; the Reviving Sichuan Culture Exhibition; Hermitage Museum Exhibition; Matisse Exhibition; Rimpa Exhibition; World Exposition Art Exhibition; COLORS Exhibition; the Kanazawa Meeting of the 21st Century Exhibition; Archi Lab Exhibition; Georges de la Tour Exhibition; and the Emile Gallé Exhibition.

Music Programs

The JAL Group has been a major sponsor of the “Otobutai” (Sound Stage) since its inception in 1989. The “Otobutai” is a unique performance of Japanese and Western music annually held in the grounds of Japan’s most historic temples. It is staged at a different temple each year, through the cooperation of the Kyoto Buddhist Association.

Cultural Lectures

In Aomori and Hiroshima this fiscal year, we held a series of “JAL Group Charity Talks” featuring a famous Japanese author, Rokusuke Ei. Proceeds collected from these events were donated to local social welfare organizations. JAL sponsored lectures featuring Rokusuke Ei were also conducted in Beijing at schools for Japanese children and at gatherings organized by Japanese associations. In 2004, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of JAL flights to the U.S., we invited Japanese people residing in the U.S. to commemorative talks by author Jiro Asada. At the events held in San Francisco and Los Angeles, money donated by people who attended was given to remedial Japanese language schools and other such organizations.