Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai) held an event for international students at Ghibli Museum, Mitaka, on November 1, 2017. The participants were nineteen international students and three staff members, including Project Associate Professor Ilan Nguyȇn of the Global Support Center at the Graduate School of Film and New Media.

With a guide provided by Prof. Nguyȇn who is a researcher of animation, the international students took a tour of the museum and learned about the history and works of Studio Ghibli that has produced animation films to represent contemporary Japanese animation films.

The museum provides full interactive experience for the visitors, while exhibiting a variety of materials that show the processes of animation film making, from forming ideas to completing a film. They were closely looking at each exhibit without missing the details. The students, who are from different study fields but are all creators, seemed to be greatly inspired at the museum.

Tokyo Geidai deeply appreciates Mr. Junichi Nishioka of the Tokuma Memorial Cultural Foundation for Animation and people of Ghibli Museum, Mitaka, for their kind support and cooperation in facilitating this visit.