Chapter 2. Towards the Enrichment and Spread of Culture
�1 New Creative Heights for Art and Culture
2. Support for Creative Artistic Activities
(2) The National Arts Festival
The National Arts Festival, held every autumn since 1946, is a nation wide event organized to provide a large section of the public with an occasion to view and appreciate outstanding achievements in the field of drama, music, dance, entertaining performance and other fields. Another purpose of the Festival is to afford artists and art organizations with a stage from which their enthusiastic performances can be displayed. National Arts Festival Prizes are awarded every year by the Minister of Education, Science and Culture to those selected as having given the most excellent performances, with twenty-five participants being awarded in 1992.
Besides being held in Tokyo and Osaka, the Festival is also held in a selected prefecture (including designated cities). The 1993 National Arts Festival is scheduled to be held in Oita Prefecture.
