The collaboration of the Novosibirsk State Conservatoire with Japanese musicians has three directions: performances of the Japanese vocal chamber music, koto execution and scientific research of the Japanese music. The development of creative relations between Russian and Japanese musicians was promoted by the formation of the Novosibirsk City Center of Japanese Musical Culture in 1992. During last five years 54 concerts of Japanese and Russian music were held in Novosibirsk. The programs were performed through the efforts of the Conservatoire musicians and their Japanese colleagues. The students and graduates of the Conservatoire have given a lot of concerts in various towns of Japan with a great success. Professors of the Conservatoire deliver lectures on Japanese and Russian music to the students in Novosibirsk and Sapporo. A number of Novosibirsk musicians playing koto - tradition Japanese instrument - increases. At the Conservatoire was formed a scientific school specialized in a Japanese musicology. The teachers and students of the ethnomusicology chaire research various theoretical problems of the traditional and modern Japanese music. The scientists and musicians of the Conservatoire have being in Japan with the purposes of scientific training.