Japan Illustrators' Association

Japan Illustrators' Association is the most popular group of professional illustrators in Japan.
Why don't you ask us, if you are looking for any kind of Japanese illustrators?
We are glad to help you, and a lot of Japanese illustrators want to work for you outside of Japan.
Contact us by email, so that we can manage in English. Please email us.

(If you can read Japanese, click here)

International Illustration Competition

We invite the public contribution of illustration.
Anybody can make an entry for this competition.
We do not care if you are a professional illustrator or not.
The images you are going to make entry must be an original work.
It should not be used as your business.

The entry fee is 2,500 yen for the first piece, and 2,000 yen from the second piece.
There is no limit of your entry.
You can pay the entry fee by international money order at a post office.
The address of Japan Illustrators' Association is as follows.

Japan Illustrators' Association
#202 Haisu-Suehiro
3-36-2 Kita-Shinjuku Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo Japan Zip 169-0074
Phone 81-3-5386-3155

You have to pay the entry fee by July 15th in 2008.

If you live outside of Japan, you can make entry by email.
The file should be JPEG and within 1MB all of them.
And be sure to put your information, the title of each work, your name, address, age, occupation, and telephone number.

We will upload the images which win a prize in October.

Please take a look at this page.

Work of Japan Illustrators' Association

Japan Illustrators' Association(JIA) is established to realize the following in 1999.

• JIA opens competitions of art illustration for professional and amateur illustrators.
• JIA evaluate illustrators' work in Japan and award excellent illustrators.
• JIA defend Illustrators' rights.
• JIA aim at the further improvement of their status,and increase of their income also.

Please ask us if you have any questions.
We are glad to cooperate with you.

Every art and illustration in this site must not be reprinted without permission by JIA.