Prime Highlights:
- Saudi Arabia to host Cultural Week in Osaka from July 12–15 to celebrate 70 years of Saudi–Japan diplomatic relations.
- The week will ring with Arabic calligraphy, heritage arts, and more than 700 interactive cultural activities.
Key Facts:
- Organized by Saudi Arabia’s top cultural authorities under the Ministry of Culture, the week will be hosted at Expo Gallery EAST in Osaka.
- It is the outcome of cooperation between Saudi Arabia’s seniormost cultural authorities, tradition, and innovation.
Key Background:
The Saudi Ministry of Culture will be organizing Cultural Week in Osaka for 70 years of Saudi-Japanese relations between 12 and 15 July. Cultural Week will be held at Expo Gallery EAST and commemorate the richness of Saudi heritage through various art and culture exhibitions.
The exhibition will also include live demonstrations, workshops, and interactive exhibits of Saudi heritage crafts, Arabic calligraphy, and heritage arts. There will also be a complementary photographic exhibition about the history of Saudi-Japan relations to encourage additional mutual cultural understanding and historical awareness. The project falls under Saudi Arabia’s cultural diplomacy project of Vision 2030.
A number of Saudi cultural institutions are coming together to organize the event, including the Heritage Commission, Royal Institute of Traditional Arts, King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives, and Prince Mohammed bin Salman Global Center for Arabic Calligraphy. Together, they are making a true cultural experience whereby traditional arts mix with Saudi identity in the modern era.
Osaka has been equaled by the expo exhibition of Saudi Arabia at Expo 2025, whose pavilion has had over one million visitors since April. With over 700 cultural interactive activities, the pavilion has offered an open window through which to see the Kingdom’s cultural abundance and vision-driven thinking. Music concerts, artist workshops, and learning programs have been the standard of Saudi Arabia’s engagement with Japan and the world through culture.
The project is in compliance with Saudi Arabia’s vision to utilize soft power and intercultural communication in developing more personalized global relations across the globe and becoming a world power of the 21st century in culture.
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