Our Aim
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation seeks to promote mutual understanding and cooperation between the UK and Japan through financial support for activities in a number of fields, from Arts and Culture to Humanities and Social Issues, from Japanese Language and Sport and Education, from Science and Technology to Medicine and Health.
The Foundation’s Head Office is in London and there is a Liaison Office in Tokyo.
The London office has three annual deadlines for their awards, and the Tokyo office has two annual deadlines. For further details on our grants, please click here.
The next deadline for applications to our UK office is 15th December 2023 for consideration in March 2024.
This is also the deadline for our annual Butterfield Awards in Medicine and Health.
The next deadline for applications to our Japan office is 28th February 2024 for consideration in April 2024.
News
- Annual Report & Accounts 2022
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation’s Annual Report & Accounts for 2022 is now available to be viewed online. The Report includes a list of all grants awarded in 2022, highlights from recently funded projects, and accounts for the year. The 2022 Annual Report, as well as those from previous years, can be found on the Annual Reports page of the website.
- The Butterfield Awards and NIHR
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation is now registered as a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Non-commercial Partner organisation for the Butterfield Awards, with projects in receipt of a Butterfield Award therefore eligible for NIHR Clinical Research Network Support.
- The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize
We are excited to announce a partnership with the Society of Authors for a new prize for translations into English of Japanese-language literature. Winners of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize will receive £3,000, with the first prize to be announced in February 2024. More information here.
- GBSF and SDGs
Our application forms have now been updated to request all applicants identify which of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, their project supports. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.
Recently Funded
- Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentship alum Nick Bradley’s second novel, ‘Four Seasons in Japan‘, following his debut ‘The Cat and The City’, is now available, published by Doubleday.
- The 32nd Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese will be held at SOAS, University of London, on 7th November 2023. The closing date for applications is 24th September 2023.
- Edinburgh University Press has published ‘Film and Fashion in Japan, 1923-39: Consuming the ‘West’‘ by Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentship alumna Lois Barnett as part of their Film and Fashions series. There is a 30% launch discount for orders from the EUP website, using code NEW30 at checkout.
- The publication ‘Late Hokusai: Society, Though, Technique, Legacy‘ edited by Timothy Clark is now available, developed from an international symposium held at the British Museum.
- A podcast of audio walking tours, historicity has launched a new series focused on Tokyo, available to listen wherever podcasts are available.
- Hosted by Ezen Foundation, an exhibition of woodblock prints ‘Entering the Halls of the Chiyoda Palace’ is at the Japanese Gallery, Islington, London, 15th April – 30th November 2023.
- Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre, London, presents Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine, the largest retrospective to date of the renowned photographer, 11th October 2023 – 7th January 2024.
- Arcola Theatre in London presents a new stage adaptation by Bryony Lavery of Haruki Murakami’s novel ‘Sputnik Sweetheart’, 23rd October – 25th November 2023.
- The Photographers’ Gallery in London presents Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective, the first UK retrospective of one of the world’s most innovative and influential artists and street photographers, 6th October 2023 – 11th February 2024.
- Creative Japan is a new podcast series by London and Tokyo-based broadcaster Nick Luscombe exploring art and community across Japan, and is now available from podcast providers, including Spotify, Apple, Amazon and Google.
- Sound and Word Network present concert and talk event ‘On an Endless Road’ at Jiyugakuen Myonichikan in Tokyo on 10th December 2023.
More information on projects funded by the Foundation can be found in our Annual Reports.
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