LONDON — On Thursday, at the Japanese Embassy in London, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Nippon Foundation announced a series of new grants designed to further the development of Japanese studies in Britain.
These grants will provide valuable support for Japanese studies programs at British universities as well as encourage the development of new programs at universities that have been aiming to start them. The grants are intended to fund new posts for up to five years.
Universities receiving the grants will be expected to show that they will find alternative sources of money to maintain the new posts beyond that. The grants are thus not intended as a permanent subsidy. The annual budget for the five-year program will amount to a maximum of £500,000.