**Example of the Activities**
In 1988, a lecture was given and a music performance was arranged by some members of the Association for students in the Department of Music of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and also at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Since 1988, a lecture and a concert are held every year in conjunction with summer program for foreign students at the International Christian University in Tokyo.
In May, 1989, concerts with lecture, and a symposium on Japanese and Korean music were held in Seoul, Korea.
In November, 1990, concerts with lecture were held in three European cities, Cologne, Vienna, and Bratislava.
In March, 1993, concerts with lecture were held in three European cities, Frankfurt, Rome and Lisbon.
In June, 1995, concerts with lecture were held in three European cities, Budapest, Cracow and Warsaw.
In November 1998, concerts with lecture were held in three European cities Cologne, Rome and Brussels.
In November 2000, concerts with lecture were held in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.
The Association also held the same type of concerts with lecture in English in Tokyo in 1990, 1992, 1994,1997 and 1998.
The Association published music score of "Hekitan No.1" and "Hekitan No.4" and compiled a database of modern Japanese traditional music and a multimedia database accessible via internet of Japanese music played by traditional Japanese music instruments.