| 19/05/2023 |
£4,000 |
|
CHURCH OF SOUND |
Travel support for 12 musicians and crew from London to take part in concerts at Tsukiji Hongan-Ji Temple in Tokyo over two days, with a line-up of artists from the UK and Japanese jazz scenes, September 2024. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£2,000 |
|
CREATIVE UNION HIROSHIMA |
Travel support for a British artist to Hiroshima to stage an exhibition for the 30th anniversary of the Hiroshima Art Document 2023, organised by Creative Union Hiroshima, October 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£2,000 |
|
DURHAM UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC |
Travel support by an academic from Durham to visit Japan to collect and analyse scientific recordings of bugaku dance and music, focussing on rhythm, musical structure, interaction, and embodiment, resulting in conference papers and an increased awareness across university music departments of Japanese music, 2024. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£5,000 |
|
EARLSDON PRIMARY SCHOOL (COVENTRY) |
Travel support for ten pupils from Earlsdon Primary School and Finham Park 2 Secondary School - UNESCO partner schools with experience of peace education - to represent the UK at the 70th Peace Conference for pupils from UNESCO partner schools, taking place in Kyoto, Japan in September 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£3,000 |
£162,774 |
FILIA |
Travel support for a representative from People Against Pornography and Sexual Violence (PAPS) to attend the UK FiLiA conference and to facilitate panels on pornography and sexual violence with a focus on Japan and a representative from FiLiA to travel to Japan to run events in culminating in a seminar for women in the community, survivors of the sex trade, academics, and other parties, 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£3,500 |
|
HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION |
Travel support to Japan for three UK-based academics to take part in an international symposium and workshops on climate change assemblies as part of a larger research project on 'Japan-UK Mutual Learning on Climate Assemblies and Climate Democracy', March 2024. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£2,000 |
|
KEELE UNIVERSITY, LANGUAGE CENTRE |
Travel support to Keele for guest speakers from Japan to take part in memorial lectures to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the arrival of the university's first Japanese student: Fumiko Yonezawa, largely overlooked in the UK, and who went on to become a famous physicist, 2023 to 2024. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£2,500 |
|
WARWICK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL |
Travel support to Hokkaido by an academic (at the LSE at the time of applying) to collaborate on a project examining how UK and Japanese copyright laws deal with AI-generated works by exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts that shaped, in each jurisdiction, the policy in this field, May 2024. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£3,000 |
|
MARUYEYI RECORDINGS & PRODUCTIONS |
Travel support for an Ainu singer and a band leader to perform at Surge Festival, Birmingham and hold a music workshop in London, and for a representative from Surge Festival to travel to Japan to connect with the music festival in Toyama, 'Sukiyaki Meets the World' in autumn 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£2,000 |
|
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (AIST) |
Travel support for a researcher of hydrogen energy based at AIST to visit three partnering institutions in the UK - University of Birmingham, Cardiff University, and Northumbria University - to establish a research network promoting renewable CO2-free hydrogen and ammonia technologies as future green fuels, June 2023 to March 2024. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£4,500 |
|
NORTHERN IRELAND INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOOTBALL CUP |
Accommodation support for 18 boys and 4 staff from Funabashi Municipal High Schook in Japan to participate in the 40th anniversary of the International Youth Football Tournament in Northern Ireland and to learn more about Northern Ireland's history and culture, July 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£2,000 |
|
OBON ON THE FOYLE |
Subsistence support to enable Foyle Obon festival directors to build deeper relationships with the KODO drummers in Sado Island (Niigata, Japan), and bring back deeper knowledge of Japanese festivals and taiko drumming to Derry - part of the 'Kodo and Foyle Obon Collaboration', August 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£4,000 |
|
PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY, THE |
Travel support for a representative of Daido Moriyama to travel from Japan to the UK for the upcoming major retrospective exhibition of the acclaimed photographer, as well as exhibition transportation costs. Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective will be open to the public at The Photographers’ Gallery, 6 October 2023 to 11 February 2024. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£3,000 |
|
SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE |
Travel support to Japan by the Tara Arts co-founder, and a set/costume designer to conduct theatre workshops for residents of Tagajo (Miyagi Prefecture) and members of The Shakespeare Company Japan to develop a new theatre production of 'The Winter's Tale', November 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£2,000 |
|
THAT LONG MOONLESS CHASE |
Travel support for an artist from the UK to visit Japan to collaborate on a new audiovisual performance at 21st Century Museum Kanazawa and hold further performances in Kyoto amd Tokyo, drawing commonalities between ancient Japanese and British folklore traditions, July 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£2,000 |
|
THICK & TIGHT DANCE COMPANY |
Travel support for dancers from the UK to Kanazawa and Toyama in Japan to collaborate in outreach programmes for SEN schools and to pilot a new project enabling participation by one UK and one Japan-based artist with a learning disability in a digital project/film, October 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£5,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS |
Travel support for academics in the UK and Japan collaborating on developing soft wearable devices, replacing conventional uncomfortable exoskeleton mountings, to deliver comfortable and safe devices capable of providing high mobility assistance, September and November 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£3,000 |
£141,817,000 |
UNIVERSITY OF HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS INVERNESS |
Travel support for academics in the UK and Japan who are collaborating on enhancing participatory methods for creative arts engagement in remote coastal communities in the North West Highlands and the Amami Islands, resulting in a platform for ongoing exchange, autumn 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£3,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN, SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY |
Travel support for academics at Lincoln and Osaka Universities to collaborate on further understanding the mechanism of water gas shift reaction for cleaner and sustainable hydrogen production using newly developed quantum chemical tools, July 2023 and March 2024. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£2,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, SCHOOL OF LIFE SCIENCES |
Travel support for an academic from Nottingham to visit Tohoku University to collaborate on identifying the gene that determines variation in the shell coiling direction or left-right asymmetry of a Japanese snail called 'Euhadra', ultimately revealing commonalities in the early development of all animals, July 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£2,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES |
Travel support for an academic from Nottingham to visit Kobe University in Japan to initiate collaboration on the study of nonlinear hydromagnetic waves that emerge in rotating flows, particularly solitary waves and other coherent structures obtained in certain limits, with applications in Earth and planetary dynamics, August to September 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£3,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND MUSEUM ETHNOGRAPHY |
Travel support for an academic from Oxford to visit Amami Oshima in Japan for research and to return historically important slides of nature and society photographed in the 1950s by an American anthropologist to its originating community, resulting in exhibitions in Japan and the UK as well as articles, winter 2023. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£4,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, EDUCATION SCHOOL |
Travel support for academics at Southampton and Tsukuba Universities to create and pilot 'outdoor nature escape room' activities aligned with school curriculum requirements as a way to encourage group work, participation, hands-on, and minds-on work, March to summer 2024. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£4,000 |
£6,630,584 |
V&A DUNDEE |
Travel support for a Japanese photographer to create a new photographic diorama of the city of Dundee which will be displayed for a minimum of 6 months in 2024 as part of the Photo City exhibition and to celebrate Dundee's 10 years as a UNESCO City of Design. |
| 19/05/2023 |
£5,000 |
£3,311,892 |
CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON |
Travel support to Kyoto for textile design academics to work with weavers and researchers to explore ways that e-textiles can be used in kimono/woven textile design manufacture and to identify approaches to reinvigorate the industry and inform Higher Education design teaching, September 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£9,000 |
|
DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF PHARMACY |
Travel support for reciprocal visits by academics at De Montfort, Fukuoka and Gunma Universities to stimulate collaborations through workshops to explore a novel X-ray technique to monitor co-crystal dissolution in situ for the design of medication, February and August 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£12,000 |
|
SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, JAPAN RESEARCH CENTRE |
Travel support for a team of historians, software designers, and heritage researchers to collaborate with colleagues in Japan in the application of Virtual Reality (VR) technology to preserve the history and heritage of Hashima Island ('Battleship Island'), July 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£10,500 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, SCHOOL OF GEOSCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF PLANETARY SCIENCES |
Travel support for academics from Aberdeen and Okayama Universities who will collaborate on exploring the existence of a prebiotic ionosphere and its impact on the emergence of life, and to establish a collaboration with the LifeSprings mission (to be launched in the 2030s), 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£10,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE (IIS) - PROFESSOR MILES PENNINGTON |
Travel support for two specialists from Oxford Brookes University to collaborate with academics at Tokyo University in combining advanced technology with community-based approaches for the monitoring and conservation of endangered wildlife species, 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£15,000 |
£465,360 |
VANISHING POINT THEATRE COMPANY |
Travel support for reciprocal UK-Japan flights by performers and artists developing a new international stage adaptation of short stories by Haruki Murakami titled 'The Shinagawa Monkey', a collaboration between Vanishing Point and Kanagawa Arts Theatre, June 2023 and February 2024. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£5,000 |
|
ARTS UNIVERSITY BOURNEMOUTH |
Travel support for a team referencing Kew's collection of Japanese paper objects on their visit to meet craftworkers/plant producers/botanical institutions in Japan to investigate integral relationships between plants and artisan skills, resulting in exhibitions and a book, October 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£5,000 |
|
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON, EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES CENTRE (DR LORNA ANGUILANO) |
Travel support for academics establishing methods to upcycle aluminium machining residues and break down plastics using each other's facilities while building on complementary expertise, leading to papers, enhanced links, and a Memorandum of Understanding, May 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£3,400 |
|
CITY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, THE CITY LAW SCHOOL |
Travel support for academics from City to take part in workshops and interviews with lawyers and CEOs at video-game companies and fans to evaluate the impact of Intellectual Property rights in Europe and Japan on video game fans in relation to derivative works, memorabilia and e-sports, spring 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£6,000 |
|
FAIL BETTER RECORDS |
Travel support for members of three UK bands for an eight-day music tour of a six-piece band (three members constitute a gypsy jazz & swing band, and three an English folk band) comprising four performances in Tokyo, also resulting in video and photography documentation, January 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£4,000 |
£582,464 |
GIRLGUIDING NORTH WEST ENGLAND |
Travel support for 16 Girl Guides -out of 178 applicants- to explore and learn about Japanese history and contemporary culture while building lasting connections with Girl Scouts of Japan and to share experiences with the North West England Guiding community and beyond, summer 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£4,000 |
|
GRIZEDALE ARTS (CONISTON, LAKE DISTRICT) |
Travel support from Japan by an architect and a craftsman to teach a group of students from the architecture, design and ecology communities how to use a seaweed-based plaster, wattle and daub insulation and joinery skills to build a cold food store, 17 to 30 April 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£7,500 |
|
KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES |
Travel support for reciprocal research trips by academics to evaluate a new self-rated questionnaire measuring signs of pathological social withdrawal in young people in Japan, facilitating early intervention for those at risk of 'hikikomori', winter 2023 onwards. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£2,000 |
|
LONDON SINFONIETTA |
Travel support for a musician from Japan to undertake a week-long residency including a shamisen masterclass at Ignatius College, a state secondary school in Enfield and to perform in a Shamisen Concerto, part of the 'Fireworks' concert, Southbank Centre, May 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£3,000 |
|
QUEEN'S COLLEGE TRANSLATION EXCHANGE |
Travel support for a two-week residency at Oxford for a writer-translator from Japan to join an award-winning writer and Japanese-English translator to run a series of public events together and develop two audio-visual resources, 18 June to 1 July 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£5,000 |
£35,182,000 |
ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE (BEYOND EUROPE TEAM) |
Travel support for three early career GPs from Japan to be paired with three UK counterparts forming teams to be supervised by mentors providing academic and pastoral support as they work on a quality improvement project relevant to UK and Japanese primary care, October 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£3,000 |
|
TARINAINANIKA |
Travel support for the UK tour of a physical theatre show about Japanese painter Rey Camoy with associated workshops and talks to teach self-expression and communication skills and inspire cross-cultural interest and understanding, autumn 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£2,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, SCHOOL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES |
Travel support for an academic to visit Japan to further explore peacebuilding in a changing international order with Japan-based scholars and policy stakeholders and to lead a seminar at International Christian University and build a network for future initiatives, 10 to 19 July 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£4,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON, SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY |
Travel support by academics studying the similarities and differences in eating behaviours and practices, nutritional status, mental and sleep health in individuals who follow different types of diets in the UK and Japan, 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£2,500 |
|
WILLIAM MORRIS GALLERY (LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST) |
Travel support for an 11-day research visit to various mingei-related sites and practitioners in Japan in preparation for a forthcoming (Spring 2024) exhibition on the relationship between Mingei and the Arts and Crafts Movement, 2023. |
| 25/11/2022 |
£2,000 |
|
YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT |
Travel support for three research trips to the UK by a Japanese academic researching the UK's intellectual property protection measures for Artificial Intelligence software creations, January, March and September 2023. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£8,250 |
£469,772 |
BARBICAN THEATRE, PLYMOUTH |
Travel support for five members of Future Undokai and the Japanese Undokai Foundation who will spend two weeks in Plymouth creating a three-day Future Undokai event centred on large-scale interactive physical games which combine elements of interactive technology, April 2023. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£7,000 |
£34,833,000 |
ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY |
Support for the Executive Producer's accommodation costs, and
venue costs to facilitate rehearsals for the stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbour Totoro developed in collaboration with Studio Ghibli, Nippon TV and London-based theatre company Improbable, August to October 2022. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£9,500 |
|
THIRTY THREE THIRTY THREE (33-33) |
Travel support to Japan for a UK-based team including seven artists to collaborate with artists and musicians in Japan, culminating in a live performance programme at locations in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Sapporo among others, spring 2023. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£8,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE, JEREMIAH HORROCKS INSTITUTE |
Travel support for four UK-Japan research visits by academics at the University of Central Lancashire and Kyoto University combining their respective expertise in researching the formation and evolution of exomoons around giant exoplanets and their potential for harbouring life, September 2022 onwards. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£12,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON, SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES |
Travel support for eight scholars and artists taking part in a series of events to explore the work of Kazuo Ishiguro and Haruki Murakami in the context of virtual technologies, digital wellbeing, social cohesion, and shifting perceptions of reality, October 2022 in Japan and March 2023 in Wolverhampton. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£4,250 |
|
BRITISH MUSEUM |
Travel support for a trip to Japan by a British Museum scientist, which will involve research and the filming and interviewing of a woodblock printmaker creating prints of 12 of the 103 newly re-discovered Hokusai drawings, leading to a film for the Museum’s YouTube channel and a full set of the 12 prints, autumn 2022. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£3,000 |
|
DE LA WARR PAVILION |
Support for the outbound shipping costs of artwork in order to support Minoru Nomata's first solo exhibition outside of Asia and De La Warr Pavilion's first solo exhibition by a Japanese artist, accompanied by audience engagement and learning activities,May to 4 September 2022. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£3,750 |
|
DURHAM UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES |
Travel support for Durham and Niigata academics participating in workshops to promote the research, collection and exhibition of materials utilised by Japanese creators to produce anime, leading to a future exhibition in Durham and an institutional partnership, July 2022 onwards. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£3,250 |
£1,987,467 |
IKON GALLERY |
Travel Support and contribution to the catalogue accompanying the first major solo exhibition of work by a Japanese Ainu artist and musician, comprising video, installation and sculptural work which will convey aspects of everyday life of her community, 9 September to 13 November 2022. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£4,800 |
|
JOSHIBI UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN |
Travel support for reciprocal UK-Japan travel by scientists at Joshibi University of Art and Design and Liverpool Hope University participating in a cross_x0002_cultural comparison of the Stroop effect (delay in reaction time between congruent and incongruent stimuli) in connection to colour, and whether it is affected by different writing systems, leading to seminars and
publications, June 2022 to April 2023. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£3,500 |
|
MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF DIGITAL ARTS (SODA) AND ISCHOOL |
Travel support for reciprocal visits by Tohoku Univeristy and Manchester Metropolitan University academics collaborating on the design of accessible and universal controllers for VR headsets, using smartphone interfaces and taking age, disabilities and culture into consideration, July 2022 onwards. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£3,500 |
|
MITO ARTS FOUNDATION |
Travel support for two UK-based artists to participate in an exhibition which will examine the social value of care and motherhood through the works of 17 artists, 'Caring: motherhood', at Art Tower Mito, 18 February to 7 May 2023. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£3,250 |
|
OPEN CITY DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON) |
Support for the transport of films to be screened at a retrospective of filmmaker Noriaki Tsuchimoto (1928-2008) and travel by a speaker taking part in an academic conference on Tsuchimoto's work: Japanese post-war documentary and filmic responses to Minamata, September 2022. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£3,000 |
|
REAKTION BOOKS LTD |
Contribution towards the colour printing of Japanese Arts of the Meiji Era by Rosina Buckland, the first comprehensive overview of Japanese art, 1865 to 1915, including 200 illustrations; it is hoped that the book will serve as a standard textbook. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£6,000 |
|
SECOND HAND DANCE |
Travel support for Second Hand Dance to perform We Touch, We Play, We Dance at a festival in Okinawa for young audiences, and also touring to Fukuoka, Kyoto and Kawasaki, 21 July to 8 Aug 2022. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£3,750 |
|
THECOLAB |
Travel support for a ten-day visit to Tokyo and the Echigo-Tsumari and Setouchi Triennials by three curators developing the Morecambe Bay Triennial in order to meet triennial organisers to discuss logistics and the challenges of the landscape for installation, and to meet artists, October 2022 |
| 20/05/2022 |
£3,500 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN, SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY |
Travel support for scientists collaborating on research into the dynamics of anions e.g., nitrate, sulphate and phosphate (found in agricultural and industrial products) in order to manage the quality of our waters and prevent environmental damage, autumn 2022. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£2,500 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, NISSAN INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES (OXFORD JAPAN HISTORY WORKSHOP) |
Travel support for Japan-based academics taking part in a two-day international academic conference entitled 'Defining Culture in Post-war Japan: Views from Alternative Perspectives' which will focus on actors in rural areas, women and unwritten sources, spring 2023. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£5,000 |
|
WILLIAM ADAMS SCHOLAR FORUM |
Travel support to the UK for a four-member delegation of academics from Japan to further their investigations into the origins of the William Adams family, resulting in a book, publications and enhanced links, autumn/winter 2022. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£2,400 |
|
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND MEDIA |
Travel support for a two-week visit to Tokyo by a UK academic to undertake further textual research on the works of Caroline dramatist James Shirley at Meisei University Library, the largest single repository of Shirley original texts, 3 to 17 May 2023. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£2,250 |
|
CHELTENHAM FESTIVALS |
Support for venue hire in connection with Japan strand at the
Cheltenham Literature Festival, inlcuding talks by Japanese authors as well as imanga workshops, a Japanese film screening and Japanese literature sessions, 7 to 16 October 2022. |
| 20/05/2022 |
£2,400 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, FACULTY OF EDUCATION |
Travel support for a two-week research visit to Japan bya UK academic who is examining the way Anglophone children’s literature has been rethought and reworked for successive generations and how in Japan it is transformed by fashion, literary and performance culture, leading to a monograph, 5 to 17 June 2023. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£9,500 |
|
MEDICAL GOVERNANCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE |
Travel support for reciprocal UK-Japan visits to create a bilingual brochure to educate healthcare professionals/students about financial conflicts of interest between pharmaceutical firms and the healthcare sector, and to take part in an international meeting in Bath, September to December 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£10,955 |
|
SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE |
Travel support for three UK-based researchers to visit Lake Suigetsu in Fukui Prefecture, Japan to engage in a study of the relationship between Earth's magnetic field strength and the receipt of cosmogenic radiation at the Earth's surface, as recorded by luminescence profiling at Lake Suigetsu, 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£7,250 |
|
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE |
Travel support for five scientists from University College London to collaborate with colleagues at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan in developing a robot teleoperative system and to deliver talks on their research proposals and achievements, 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£7,260 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF HULL, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY |
Travel support for Dr Kazuyo Nakabayashi from the University of Hull to travel to Japan to embark on a collaborative project to develop free online selfcare programs to support children suffering from domestic abuse in coping with emotional distress caused by the trauma. The project is in collaboration with Ritsumeikan University to support and strengthen the work by a Japanese NPO which has been providing a lifeline for the children. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£6,000 |
|
BELFAST PHOTO FESTIVAL |
Travel support and associated exhibition costs for collage artist Kensuke Koike to travel to Belfast to develop an exhibition of new photographic work to be displayed at the Botanic Gardens and Ulster Museum and to engage in talks, Belfast Photo Festival, 2 to 30 June 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£3,000 |
£83,106 |
FIERCE (FESTIVAL) LIMITED (BIRMINGHAM) |
Travel support for the Japanese artist Saeborg to premiere a performance at Fierce Festival (Birmingham) and Submerge Festival (Manchester) in March and October 2022; the first time these festivals have included representation from Japan. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£5,200 |
£1,521,986 |
FOUNDLING MUSEUM, THE |
Support for the transport of artwork by Japanese manga artist Taiyō Matsumoto to feature in the exhibition Superheroes, Orphans and Origins: 125 years in Comics, which will run at the Foundling Museum in London, 1 April to 10 July 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£3,000 |
|
KEELE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND GLOBAL STUDIES (DR MONALISA ADHIKARI) |
Travel support for a Keele University academic to engage in pilot research with academics at Waseda University examining the way Japan navigates identities as an OECD member and regional power in its engagement in peacebuilding in Asia, leading to further research and publications, 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£3,600 |
|
KITAMAESEN CO.,LTD. |
Travel support for drumming group Kodō to perform at The Anvil in Basingstoke and Bridgewater Hall in Manchester as part of Kodō's 40th anniversary celebrations: 'Kodo One Earth Tour 2022' featuring elements related to the nature and performing arts of Sado Island, the home of Kodo, February 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£4,000 |
|
LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES |
Travel support for Dr Laura Buck to travel to Japan to investigate the morphological consequences of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals using models constructed using hybrid Japanese/Taiwanese macaque skeletons, and virtual shape analyses, 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£3,000 |
|
MENTE, MS ELENI |
Travel support for a two-month study visit to Japan to explore the ways that floods can be prevented and global warming mitigated, via interviews and research into the principles, design and maintenance of refuge parks and disaster preventive forests, resulting in presentations and publications, autumn 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£5,000 |
£1,910,047 |
RUSKIN MILL LAND TRUST (GLOUCESTERSHIRE) |
Travel support by one of the participating Japanese artists giving masterclasses at the 2022 International Festival of Glass, which has as its theme Contemporary Glass and Culture from the East, allowing visitors to sample regional food, design, and music - as well as a contribution to the transport of artwork, August 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£2,700 |
|
SAITAMA UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING |
Travel support for Japan-based academics to participate in an international workshop marking the bicentennial of the publication of Joseph Fourier's Theorie analytique de la chaleur which has had a profound effect on science and engineering, 27 June to 1 July 2022 at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£3,000 |
|
SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR ART HISTORY (SSAH) |
Support for venue costs associated with a two-day conference organised by SSAH in partnership with the National Museum of Japanese History exploring cultural connections between the visual and material cultures of Scotland and Japan, 10 to 11 February 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£6,750 |
|
SOUTH EASTERN REGIONAL COLLEGE (SERC) |
Travel support for five students and staff from Toyama Minami Senior High School to travel to Northern Ireland to collaborate on a project-based learning project on tourism, and to develop cultural and language awareness in Japan and Northern Ireland, September 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£4,000 |
£19,065 |
STATE OF TRUST (STEPHEN MARSHALL + DEBORAH BADDOO) |
Travel support for Stephen Marshall and Deborah Baddoo to travel to Japan to further their research into jazz dance in Tokyo and Sendai, through interviews with 20 key Japanese dancers and musicians, and focusing on the history and development of jazz dance in the US, UK and Japan via talks and dance presentations in the run-up to the Jozenji Street Jazz Festival in Sendai, 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£4,250 |
|
STOJKOVIć, DR JELENA (OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY) |
Travel support for Dr Stojković to travel to Japan to work on ‘Abe Nobuya and the Group Illumination’: a study of the work of a photographer and artist Abe Nobuya (1913-1971), particularly in relation to his life in Rome during the 1960s, 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£2,500 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, SCHOOL OF ARTS, LANGUAGES AND CULTURES |
Travel support for UK and overseas participants taking part in the triennial BAJS conference at Manchester focusing on new research in Japanese Studies and comprising up to 120 papers,
7 to 9 September 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£3,750 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, SCHOOL OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES |
Travel support for a UK-based academic to travel to Japan to explore how Japanese colonial settlers from Korea and Manchuria brought the empire back into the social imagination of early postwar Japan through research at the National Diet Library, resulting in an article and presentations, summer 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£2,150 |
|
KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION DESIGN SCIENCE |
Support for travel to London by Dr Kawahara to participate in research measuring differences in audio engineering, contributing to Queen Mary's Mix Evaluation Dataset and culminating in a peer-reviewed publication, September 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£2,000 |
|
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (DR RONALD PO) |
Travel support for Dr Ronald Po to travel to Japan to collaborate with Dr Ikeda at Tōhoku University and to study documents related to the Bohai Sea and the Mount Hōrai legend resulting in an article 'The Shaping of Maritime Religiosity: The Cultural History of Mount Penglai/Hōrai in China and Japan', 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£2,000 |
£39,052,826 |
ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST |
Travel support for Kazumi Murose to travel to London to record a film demonstrating how urushi lacquer is applied and decorated, and to contribute to the Royal Collection Trust’s Learning Programme for Japan: Courts and Culture which will run at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 8 April 2022 to 12 March 2023. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£2,450 |
|
STICK VOX KLAVIER |
Travel support for composer, percussionist and marimbist Dr Alejandro Viñao to perform at Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Munestugu Hall (Nagoya) and Suntory Hall (Tokyo), and to host master classes at Kunitachi College of Music, Aichi University of the Arts and Tokyo University of the Arts, 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£2,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS |
Travel support for a two-week visit to Tōhoku University by Dr Kripfganz to collaborate with PhD student Niklas Uliczka, and to engage in knowledge transfer through seminars, workshops, and the delivery of a methodological training course, 2022. |
| 19/11/2021 |
£2,000 |
|
ZON, PROFESSOR BENNETT (DURHAM UNIVERSITY) |
Support for travel to the UK by Professor Yoshiyuki Kikuchi to take part in a symposium and costs associated with a conference exploring connections between Japanese and British science in the 19th century, July 2022. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£7,000 |
|
CAMBERWELL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON |
Travel support for 10 Camberwell College students on the new MA Global Collaborative Design Practice course to spend 4 months at Kyoto Institute of Technology as part of a collaborative, creative exchange. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£7,000 |
|
FABULA COLLECTIVE LTD. |
Travel support for the creation of a new UK-Japan dance piece 'Everything Would Be Nonsense' as part of 'HUMAN.' premiering at The Pit, New National Theatre, Tokyo; and a strategic networking event with Q&A for Japanese industry colleagues, August 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£7,000 |
|
SAINSBURY INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF JAPANESE ARTS AND CULTURES (SISJAC) |
Travel support for a project to research one of the greatest treasures of the Sainsbury Centre at UEA, a very rare statue of a Shinto deity, possibly one of the wives of Shotoku Taishi, through a new UK-Japanese research network with Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£8,500 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH, SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES |
Travel to Yamanashi University in Japan by Greenwich academics to collaborate on a project proposing novel, more accurate multi-view classification models using AI, to help accelerate to diagnosis of Covid-19, August and December 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£12,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, TRANSLATIONAL ENERGY RESEARCH CENTRE (TERC) |
Travel suppor for UK-Japan visits to underpin joint research on reduced-cost components for hydrogen fuel cells (focussing on platinum-free catalysts and alternative electrolytes) to ultimately expedite decarbonisation of the automotive sector, June 2021 to May 2022. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£2,500 |
|
BATH SPA UNIVERSITY |
Travel support by an academic to develop interior design case studies for 'A Studio Guide for Interior Design' (Routledge) targeted at students on graduate Interior Design programmes globally & to enhance links with Japanese universities practising interior design, autumn 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£5,000 |
|
BOSTON AND HAKUSAN CITY EXCHANGE |
Travel support for a two-week exchange visit to Japan by seven 14- and 15-year old pupils from Boston, Lincolnshire to meet pupils and families in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture as part of an established youth exchange programme, July 2022. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£4,000 |
£53,111 |
THE BRITISH MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED |
Support for costs associated with 'Hokusai's Great Picture Book of Everything', a display showcasing for the first time 103 recently rediscovered brush drawings by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, acquired by the Museum in 2020, 30 September 2021 to 30 January 2022. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£3,000 |
|
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY |
Travel support for an academic to research interviews into the way British children's books have been adapted and commoditised in the Japanese context, & their role in wider cultural relations, resulting in the book 'British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture', 2021 onwards. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£2,900 |
|
GORCH BROTHERS |
Travel support for a one-week visit to Japan by the English Touring Theatre artistic director and a playwright to deliver a week of workshops for 5 to 10 early and mid-career Japanese playwrights, 15 to 21 November 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£4,500 |
|
INHOUSE EVENTS CIC |
Support for a 2-week celebration of Japan through screenings of the Olympics and Japanese film with associated free family events celebrating culture and sport through art, including woodblock-print workshops at an outdoor amphitheatre in Glasgow, summer 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£3,000 |
|
MACK BOOKS LTD |
Support for the publication of a comprehensive volume on Eikoh Hosoe to coincide with a major retrospective exhibition in Japan, available in both English and Japanese, edited, designed and produced under the artist's direction, July 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£3,000 |
|
QUEER EAST FILM FESTIVAL |
Support for the 'Focus Japan' strand which will showcase 10 classic and new films in cinemas across London and online, along with director Q&As & panel discussions hosted online to celebrate diverse identities and cultures, 15 to 26 September 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£3,500 |
|
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS (RAC) |
Catalogue guides for 'Kyosai's Uninhibited Brush: The Israel Goldman Collection' which will focus on the art of 'sekiga' or 'spontaneous paintings', and the environment in which Kawanabe Kyosai's works were created and appreciated, 19 March to 19 June 2022. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£3,000 |
|
THA_LONDON |
Support for parallel group exhibitions showcasing UK and Japanese artists in each other's country celebrating the silkscreen printing technique, and the history of English screenprints, with associated events, Urashintora and StolenSpace Galleries, October 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£2,850 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (IMS) |
Travel support for a Waseda academic visiting the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen to deploy advanced mass spectrometry methods in research collaboration on the regulatory mechanism of the Rho protein which plays an important role in cancer progression, leading to publications and further links, September 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£3,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, DUNCAN OF JORDANSTONE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN |
Travel support for an academic to visit Japan to explore the future sustainability of precious metals and to study traditional Japanese metalwork, that uses gold sparingly, with the chemistry of precious metal recovery from electronic waste, leading to an exhibition in 2023. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£3,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND 3D DESIGN |
Travel support for an academic to meet academics in Tokyo and Osaka, and document the relationships between architecture, culture, art and nature on Naoshima, resulting in an article, exhibition and seminar at Huddersfield, and feeding into a larger comparative project, summer 2021 onwards. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£2,500 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, TORCH - HUMANITIES DIVISION |
Support for 'Japan 2021' in which the arts and culture, alongside the histories, literatures and languages of Japan, will feature as part of a wide-reaching cultural festival and 14 events between October and December 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£3,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF YORK, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY |
Travel support to enable research for a book which places Japanese medieval history and symbols into the context of a larger 'Global Medievalist Moment' (1840-1960), examining reciprocal influences that reinforced medievalism around the world and the specific Japanese context, 2022. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£2,000 |
|
BATH SPA UNIVERSITY |
Publication costs of 'Zassho-Cascadia', the culmination of a long-term photographic enquiry that considers interwoven seismic histories and earthquake probabilities in Japan and the Pacific Northwest. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£2,000 |
|
BOUNCE CINEMA |
Support for an inaugural Japan-focused project: a 1-day film festival featuring a programme of contemporary Japanese feature-length films, short films, live panel discussions and editorial content, at Genesis Cinema in East London and live streamed, January 2022. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£2,000 |
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EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL |
Support for travel to the UK by Kazushi Ono to conduct the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Closing Concert of the Edinburgh International Festival.The repertoire will include works by the Japanese composers Toru Takemitsu and Toshio Hosokawa, August 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£2,150 |
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LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCES |
Travel support for a visit to Fukuoka to promote healthy participation in team sports such as football for women using new artificial sports surfaces, a legacy of the Olympics, and a public seminar to raise awareness of injury risk using biomechanical testing, September 2021. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£2,000 |
|
UNIVERSITY FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, SCHOOL OF CRAFT AND DESIGN |
Support for the transport of artwork and travel by a textile practitioner from Japan to attend an exhibition of new miniature works by 28 contemporary UK and Japanese textile artists, and to give a lecture and workshop at the Crafts Study Centre, 4 January to 8 May 2022. |
| 21/05/2021 |
£2,000 |
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UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, SCHOOL OF GEOSCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS |
Travel support for an academic setting out to strengthen ties between Japanese and British geologists who explore seafloor sediments. |
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