Study & Culture

2026/4/22

Study

MEXT Scholarships

　MEXT Scholarships: Research Students for Maltese Citizens 2027
　MEXT Scholarships: Research Students for Maltese Citizens 2026
MEXT Scholarships: Research Students for Maltese Citizens 2025
　MEXT Scholarships: Research Students for Maltese Citizens 2024

MIRAI Program

MIRAI 2025/2026
MIRAI 2024/2025
　MIRAI 2023/2024

Culture

Events

　・Tsumami Zaiku Workshop: Create Your Flower Brooch (4th and 11th March 2026)
・Exploring Japanese Sake: Special Lecture & Tasting (27th and 28th January 2026)
　・Japanese film screening of "Inori" and Lecture (18th November 2025)
　・The Sacred Dance of Iwami Kagura: Dynamic Tradition of Japan (In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Malta) (5th September 2025)
　・Embassy Booth at the Connceting Through Culture (14th June 2025)

　・Lecture and demonstration featuring the Kimono stylist & designer Nobuaki Tomita was organized in Malta by the Embassy of Japan (26th November 2017)

　・Introduction to the Japanese kimono culture-Lecture and demonstration by Kimono stylist & designer Nobuaki Tomita (26th November 2017)

　・Ceremony in Malta to Commemorate One Year After the Great East Japan Earthquake (23th March 2012)

　・Concert in Malta to Support Victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake (13th July 2011)

Cultural Items

　The Embassy of Japan in Malta offers lending of cultural items for non-profit events or purposes by schools, non-profit organisations and individuals.

　To request an item loan, please fill in the Application Form

and email the completed form to culture@ve.mofa.go.jp.

　Guidelines and conditions for borrowing cultural items

Items are loaned free of charge
The maximum loan period is 14 days.
All items borrowed must be returned promptly.
Japanese cultural items shall be in use for the proper Japanese culture's introduction and presentation.
All items are to be collected and returned by the borrower.
All items may not be sub-lent to any third party.
We ask you to kindly wash and iron borrowed Yukata and Happi before you return them to us.
If for some reason an item cannot be returned in the condition it was lent, the borrower will be required to pay for a replacement to be purchased and delivered to the Embassy.

　Available Cultural Items can be checked here

Others

　・The Japan International MANGA Award
　　The 20th Japan International MANGA Award – Application Deadline: Tuesday, 30th June 2026 (JST)
　　The 19th Japan International MANGA Award – Application Deadline: Monday 30th June 2025 (JST)

　・The Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative Fund
　　Opening of Applications for the Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative Fund（2026）

　・Commemorative Event Endorsement Guidelines for the 60th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Malta in 2025