Research Grant Program 2015, titled "Exploring New Values for Society", provides two grant frameworks respectively for joint research projects and individual research projects that can be expected to lead to "creation of new values for society". For both frameworks, we solicit ambitious projects that are founded on creative concepts that reflect a youthful perspective and whose results can help change people's ways of thinking - regardless of their country or region of origin or their social position and circumstances - and can lead to actions that bring about solutions to the issues faced.
| Grant Number |
Project Title |
Project Representative |
Position, Organization |
Grant Amount(yen) |
| (A) Joint Research Grants |
| D15-R-0009 |
Assessment of the Mid- to Long-term Health Effects of Japan's 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Toward disaster-resilient health care systems |
Shuhei Nomura |
Graduate Student, School of Public Health, Imperial College London |
1,200,000 |
| D15-R-0158 |
Revitalization and Sutainability of Communities in Historic Cairo Based on their Historical Monuments and Traditional Habitats |
Naoko Fukami |
Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Station, Cairo |
6,200,000 |
| D15-R-0213 |
A Comprehensive Study of War Memory and History Education: The roles of historians in the confidence building and training of global talents in the Asia Pacific Region |
Xiaohua Ma |
Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Sciences, Osaka Kyoiku University |
4,000,000 |
| D15-R-0234 |
International Collaborative Investigation of Underlying Technology to Develop Information Exchange Platform with Hair Dresser/Barber for Successful Aging in Thailand and Japan |
Sachiko Makabe |
Lecturer, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Akita University |
6,600,000 |
| D15-R-0262 |
Activation of Exchanges by Local and Practical Distributive Justice in a Gap Widening Society: Exploring new values for society based on convivial human science |
Yuji Moro |
Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba |
6,500,000 |
| D15-R-0331 |
Exploring the Art of Living Together in 21st Century Ethnically Diverse Europe: Fostering strong sense of belonging, living in harmony with one another, and integrating refugees |
Ivan Botev |
Lecturer, Faculty of Regional Development Studies, Toyo University |
2,000,000 |
| D15-R-0369 |
Understanding the Reorganisation of the Marginalised Labour Market in Contemporary Japan from Migrants' Perspectives: Towards building new support systems |
Hironori Sai |
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Design and Sociology, Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University |
4,600,000 |
| D15-R-0447 |
Women's Participation to Decision Making Process of Medical Interventions during Labour in Cambodia: Does it effectively reduce unnecessary interventions and improve maternal and neonatal health? |
Mitsuaki Matsui |
Associate Professor, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University |
6,200,000 |
| D15-R-0452 |
Construction of Archives that Contribute to Inheritance and its Use of Memory of War, and Research of the New Possibility of the Peaceful Learning Based on it: To bring up a heart to desire peace |
Hiroyuki Sato |
Associate Professor, Education, Law, Economics and the Humanities Area, Research and Education Assembly, Kagoshima University |
6,500,000 |
| D15-R-0475 |
The Approach to Dissemination of New Preservation Technologies for Disaster Damaged Archives |
Mutsumi Aoki |
Associate Professor, National Institute of Japanese Literature |
5,600,000 |
| D15-R-0519 |
An Empirical Study on the Self-governing Conditions of How a Small Municipality Can Keep its Inherence and Sustainability: An interdisciplinary comparative analysis on the transitions of governance, landscape, and public spheres in the villages in Japan, Germany, and France since 1960s |
Keijiro Yamada |
Associate Professor, College of Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Kanazawa Institute of Technology |
4,600,000 |
| D15-R-0590 |
The Role of Volunteers in Long-term Disaster Recovery: Facilitating co-production for resilient communities |
Deborah Blackman |
Professor, School of Business, University of New South Wales |
4,000,000 |
| D15-R-0631 |
Reconsidering the Future of Language Education Based on the Significance of a Language that Shapes One's Whole Life Course |
Roman Pașca |
Lecturer, Japanese Studies Research Institute, Kanda University of International Studies |
4,800,000 |
| D15-R-0637 |
Understanding Japan as a Multi-cultural and Multi-lingual Society: Establishing objective criteria for measuring mutual intelligibility and intergenerational transmission of the endangered languages |
Masahiro Yamada |
Program Specific Assistant Professor, Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research, Kyoto University |
6,500,000 |
| D15-R-0643 |
Construction of the Sanriku Coast Village Archive Towards the Formation of Autonomous Communities by the Cooperative of History Researchers and a Photographer |
Kentaro Okamura |
Assistant Lecturer, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo |
3,000,000 |
| D15-R-0656 |
Reconstruction of the Mental Health and Welfare System in a Polyphyletic Recycling Society: Through comparison of the classification of the policies |
Yuki Ogata |
Professor, Faculty of Social Welfare, Bukkyo University |
2,800,000 |
| D15-R-0699 |
Toward Integration of Time and Space in Lifelong Learning: From the field of Dosenbo area, Kyoto |
Yasushi Maehira |
Professor, Faculty of Education, Kio University |
6,000,000 |
| Sub Total 17 |
81,100,000 |
| (B) Individual Research Grants |
| D15-R-0015 |
An Anthropological Study about Ethnic Identity of Siraya Tribe in Taiwan: A case study centering revival of indigenous people's handicrafts through museum collections |
Yiping Lu |
Graduate Student, School of Cultural and Social Studies, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies |
1,600,000 |
| D15-R-0022 |
The New Stakeholder in Reforestaton Activity for the Greater Sustainability in the Aral Region, Kazakhstan: Focusing on the cultural and social background of the region |
Kayo Matsui |
Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University |
1,700,000 |
| D15-R-0040 |
Identification of Mycorrhizal Fungi in (Potential) Mycoheterotrophic Plants: Implication for conservation of species-rich underground biotic networks |
Kenji Suetsugu |
Lecturer, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University |
1,600,000 |
| D15-R-0067 |
Protecting the Commons and Sustainable Development: Fishers' perceptions as performance indicator of Philippine marine reserves |
Ronald J. Maliao |
Instructor, College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Aklan State University |
1,300,000 |
| D15-R-0091 |
Development of Management Methods to Conserve Cymbidium Goeringii in SATOYAMA: Clarification of its inhabiting processes and scientific verification after improvement of SATOYAMA by tree thinning |
Hiroyuki Kurokochi |
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, The University of Tokyo |
1,500,000 |
| D15-R-0129 |
Labour Migration, Transnational Farm Ownership, and the Transformation of Global Agriculture: Identifying pathways to intercultural connection and shared belonging in changing rural spaces |
Victoria Stead |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin Universitｙ |
700,000 |
| D15-R-0169 |
"Invisible" Function of International Human Rights Laws: Reconstructing moral and social norms |
Hoko Horii |
Graduate Student, Van Vollenhoven Institute/KITLV, Leiden University |
1,700,000 |
| D15-R-0206 |
Historical Analysis of Legal Position of Schools for Foreigners in Post-World War II Japan: To build an education system in the time of globalization |
Yongho O |
Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo Gakugei University |
1,200,000 |
| D15-R-0242 |
The Ethics of Listening: Regarding the pain of war in Colombia |
Juan Pablo Aranguren Romero |
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of los Andes |
1,400,000 |
| D15-R-0243 |
Observing the Conception of Nature in Contemporary Japan through Marine Conservation Activity by Fishermen |
Izumi Tsurita |
Graduate Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
600,000 |
| D15-R-0324 |
Collaborative Archaeological Site Management: Exploring a new value of cultural heritage through a collaboration with local communities in Sudan |
Tomomi Fushiya |
Graduate Student, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University |
800,000 |
| D15-R-0448 |
Comparative Study of Global Citizenship Education in Secondary Education: Practical research at domestic and IB schools in Germany and Austria |
Reiko Maejima |
Graduate Student, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna |
1,600,000 |
| D15-R-0543 |
The Power of "Self-Documentary" (Personal Documentary Films) to Reflect the "Everyday World "after the Great East Japan Earthquake: The process of sharing disaster experiences and fostering "insiders" through filmmaking by the citizens in post 3.11 Japan |
Tomoko Niwa |
Project Assistant Professor, National Institutes for the Humanities |
1,600,000 |
| D15-R-0613 |
Managing Festivity in the Contemporary Age: An action research through mutual interactions and networking of the organizers of rock festivals in Japan |
Sho Yamasaki |
Graduate Student, Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University |
900,000 |
| D15-R-0650 |
"Enemies"Become Friends: Designing education activities that build understanding and positive attitudes among migrant students and Thai students |
Thithimadee Arphattananon |
Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University |
700,000 |
| Sub Total 15 |
18,900,000 |
| Total 32 |
100,000,000 |
| Public Notification Period |
May 11 to September 4, 2015 |
| Total Amount of Grants |
100 million yen (Joint Research Grants: Approx. 80 million yen. Individual Research Grants: Approx. 20 million yen.) |
| Amount of Grant per Project |
Joint Research Grants: Up to around 4 million yen per year
Individual Research Grants: Up to around 1 million yen per year |
| Period of Grants |
One year or two years, beginning May 1, 2016 |
| Project Proposal Requirements |
No limitations are placed on proposals with regard to the nationality or place of residence of the project representative or participants; nor is there any restriction with regard to the their affiliation (or lack thereof) with a university, research institute, NPO/NGO, or other organization. |
| Grant Categories |
(A) Joint Research Grants
(B) Individual Research Grants |
| Selection of Grants |
Formal decisions on the awarding of grants will be made at the Toyota Foundation Board of Directors meetings scheduled to be held in March 2016, based on the deliberations of a selection committee composed of outside experts. |
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