Japan Intercultural Institute

the japan intercultural institute (jii) is a non-profit institute supporting education, research and career development for intercultural professionals. it offers seminars, sponsors research, and promotes best practices in intercultural training and education. its core mission is to encourage the deep forms of learning that come from intercultural experiences and foreign language learning. our learning mission–a vision of edward hall visionary thinker edward t. hall (e.g. the silent language, 1959) felt that globalization creates challenges and opportunities for humankind. hall believed that the biggest barrier to deep forms of intercultural understanding is our blindness to how culture shapes our mind and perceptions. today, research in cultural psychology and cognitive neuroscience is shedding new light on how culture shapes fundamental elements of cognition, emotion, and identity. jii’s deep culture seminars are at the cutting edge of adapting the latest insights in mind, brain an