The U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network (CTN) cultivates and promotes creativity, collective wisdom, resilience, sustainability and equity across communities in Japan and the U.S. with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area. By designing and implementing arts and cultural programs, we achieve our vision through intercultural collaborations and dialogues, centering underrepresented voices and stories from the diverse peoples we serve.

C: Cultural Catalyst
T: Trust and Transformation
N: Nurturing Network
CTN was founded as an international project of Arts Midwest, headquartered in Minneapolis, MN in 2001 to provide leadership, vision, information and support to enhance cultural trade between the U.S. and Japan. Under the leadership of its founding director, Kyoko Yoshida, CTN has designed and implemented a number of exemplary exchange projects with an array of committed partners and participants, developed long-term relationships and broadened the knowledge within the professional community about artistic resources and practices in both countries. After its successful and productive operation of five years in the Midwest, CTN relocated to San Francisco in 2006 and became an independent nonprofit organization in 2007. Since then, CTN has been serving the Japanese and Asian American population of the Bay Area by producing and presenting high quality and accessible artistic works and cultural programs which are highly relevant to and representative of the community.
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to support our arts and cultural exchange programs between the U.S. and Japan!
U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Black Lives Matter
As a nonprofit arts organization working to advance cultural equity, environmental sustainability and social justice through our programs and services, CTN stands in solidarity with the Black community’s struggle for justice. With an array of committed organizations and individuals, we will continue to fight racism and injustice against Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC).

Here are some of the resources through which we can learn, join, and/or donate to that will help make a difference.

Black Lives Matter
NAACP
NAACP Legal Defence Fund
Women of Color in the Arts
People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
LGBTQ Freedom Fund
More on a state-by-state level resources
Theatre Bay Area
U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network, Inc. (CTN)
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