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  • Arts & Culture Open for Applications

    Visual Arts – Local Project Support Programme

    This programme is designed to give limited grant assistance to non-profit making projects/events relating to Arts and Culture that help to promote a greater awareness of Japan in…

    Rolling (apply at least two months before your project start date) Visual Arts – Local Project Support Programme
  • Arts & Culture Opening Autumn 2026

    Visual Arts – Exhibitions Abroad Support Program

    This programme is designed to financially support museums, galleries and other relevant organisations mounting exhibitions or introducing Japanese art and culture to the UK.

    Visual Arts – Exhibitions Abroad Support Program
  • Arts & Culture Opening Autumn 2026

    Visual Arts – Ishibashi Foundation / The Japan Foundation Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art

    This programme aims to support the development of professionals specialising in the study of Japanese visual art by providing an opportunity for curators and researchers from abroad to…

    Visual Arts – Ishibashi Foundation / The Japan Foundation Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art
  • Arts & Culture Open for Applications

    Performing Arts – Local Project Support Programme

    This programme is designed to give limited grant assistance to non-profit making projects/events relating to Arts and Culture that help to promote a greater awareness of Japan in…

    Rolling (apply at least two months before your project start date) Performing Arts – Local Project Support Programme
  • Arts & Culture Opening Autumn 2026

    Publication – Support Program for Translation and Publication

    Are you a UK publisher seeking financial support for books from Japan to be translated and published?

    Publication – Support Program for Translation and Publication
  • Arts & Culture

    Film

    If you wish to organise Japan-related film screenings, talks and conferences in the UK, and would like the Japan Foundation to be involved financially or in other ways…

    Rolling (apply at least two months before your project start date) Film
  • Japanese Studies Open for Applications

    Japan Foundation London Grant Programme (Japanese Studies & International Dialogue)

    This programme is designed to provide grant assistance to projects (e.g. lectures, workshops, conferences) in any discipline of the humanities and social sciences that have a significant Japan…

    1 August 2026 Japan Foundation London Grant Programme (Japanese Studies & International Dialogue)
  • Japanese Studies Opening Autumn 2026

    Grant Programme for Japanese Studies Projects

    This programme is designed to promote Japanese studies overseas by providing grants to non-profit organisations such as higher education institutions and research institutions that are implementing Japanese Studies…

    Grant Programme for Japanese Studies Projects
  • Japanese Studies Opening Autumn 2026

    Japanese Studies Fellowship Programme

    This program provides preeminent foreign scholars and researchers in the field of Japanese Studies with opportunities to conduct research in Japan, with the aim of supporting them and…

    Japanese Studies Fellowship Programme
  • Japanese Studies Closed for Applications

    JF-CIJS-EAJS Fellowship Programme

    Tohoku University’s Center for Integrated Japanese Studies (CIJS), in collaboration with the Japan Foundation and supported by the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), has announced a new…

    JF-CIJS-EAJS Fellowship Programme
  • Japanese Studies Closed for Applications

    JF-GJS Fellowship Programme

    This programme is jointly organised by the Japan Foundation and the Institute for Advance Studies on Asia of the University of Tokyo (Tobunken). It provides post-doctoral researchers in…

    JF-GJS Fellowship Programme
  • Japanese Studies Closed for Applications

    JF-Nichibunken Fellowship Programme

    This programme is jointly organised by the Japan Foundation and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, National Institutes for the Humanities (Nichibunken). It provides post-doctoral researchers in…

    JF-Nichibunken Fellowship Programme
  • Japanese Language Closed for Applications

    Japanese Language Local Project Support Programme 2026-2027

      Institutions can apply for up to £2500 for non-profit-making projects or activities which promote Japanese language education in the UK. Please see the attached documents at the bottom of this page for more…

    Japanese Language Local Project Support Programme 2026-2027
  • Japanese Language

    Courses for Teachers of Japanese

    We offer workshops for non-native and native speaking teachers of Japanese, to improve their Japanese language skills and teaching methodology.

    Courses for Teachers of Japanese
  • Arts & Culture Opening Autumn 2026

    Programme for Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields

    This programme provides a six-month residential language course for specialists (researchers, postgraduate students, librarians, museum and art gallery curators, etc.) who need to improve their Japanese for academic…

    Programme for Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields
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