Reviews in Both Japan and the United States for 2000-2001 Awards Are Complete, and The

Reviews in both Japan and the United States for 2000-2001 awards are complete, and The Japan Foundation is pleased to announce that awards have been made to 47 individuals and 249 institutions in the United States. Awards are made on the basis of scholarly and professional quality, the project's contribution to a better understanding of Japanese culture, arts, language and society and to the promotion of Japanese cultural relations between Japan and the world.

G8 Summit G8 Summit Member Nations Cultural/Artistic Study Tour Programs G8 Summit Member Nations Cultural/Artistic Study Tour allowed three participants from each of the G8 member countries and one participant each from Portugal, Sweden, and Belgium in order to introduce Japanese culture and art prior to the 2000 G8 Summit. The three awardees from the U.S. were:

Cheng, Scarlet (CA)

Gomez, Edward (NY)

Renner, Pamela (NY)

Medium-Term Visitors' Program in Commemoration of the G8 Kyushu/Okinawa Summit 2000

Medium-Term Visitors' Program in Commemoration of the G8 Kyushu/Okinawa Summit 2000 provided leading cultural specialists from G8 member countries the opportunity to directly converse, conduct joint research, and create art with their Japanese counterparts. The program intends to promote mutual understanding and cooperation among all involved nations to commemorate the Kyushu/Okinawa Summit. The following five awardees were chosen:

Ames, Kenneth Portland State University (OR) D'Agostino, Peter Temple University (TN)

Makins, James The Philadelphia College of Art and Design of The University of Arts (PA)

Robbins, Kenneth Louisiana Tech University (LA)

Smith, Henry Columbia University (NY)

Young Leaders Summit 2000 in Okinawa

Young Leaders Summit 2000 in Okinawa invites young leaders from both G8 member countries and the EU to Japan in order to facilitate mutual understanding and intellectual exchange among the future societal leaders of all involved nations. The following two participants were chosen from the U.S.:

Dwyer, Patrick Columbia University (NY)

Talcott, Paul Harvard University (MA)

Research Fellowships

Research Fellowships allow scholars, researchers and professionals in the humanities and social sciences to conduct research in Japan for periods ranging from two months to a year. For the 2000-2001 funding year, fourteen fellowships have been awarded to:

Figal, Gerald University of Delaware, "Beachheads: War, Peace and Tourism in Okinawa" Fukui, Naoki University of California at Irvine, "Japanese Syntax in a Comparative Perspective"

Gardiner, David Colorado College, "The Dogmatics of Embodiment: Kukai and the Dharma-Body"

Gibbs, Michael University of Denver, "Labor and Community vs. State and Corporation: Kansai in the 1950s and 60s"

Heine, Steven University of Pennsylvania, "An Investigation of Self-Improving Motivations in Japan and the USA"

Ito, Junko University of California at Santa Cruz, "The Phonological Organization of the Japanese Lexicon"

Jaffe, Richard North Carolina State University, "Japanese Buddhist Encounters with South and Southeast Asian Buddhism, 1868-1945"

Kawashima, Teruko Wesleyan University, "Wanderings: Discourses of Movement and Power in Premodern Japan"

Kobayashi, Motoo University of Washington, "The Politics of Representation: The Formation of the National in Late Nineteenth Century Japanese Literature"

Miyake, Lynne Pomona College, "Refiguring Narratological Categories: Interactive Narrators and Readers in Heian Literature"

Molasky, Michael Connecticut College, "Reading Jazz in Postwar Japan"

Smethurst, Mae University of Pittsburgh, "The Relationship of Complex Plot to Performance in Noh and Greek Tragedy" Tamanoi, Mariko University of California at Los Angeles, "'Manchuria' and the Politics of Memory in Post-war Japan"

Walker, Brett Montana State University at Bozeman, "The History of Ecology of the Extinction of the Japanese Wolf"

Doctoral Fellowships

Doctoral Fellowships give doctoral candidates in the humanities, arts and social sciences the opportunity to conduct research in Japan for periods ranging from 4 to 14 months. For the 2000-2001 funding year, twelve fellowships were awarded to:

Cogan, Gina Columbia University, "Precepts and Power: Imperial Convents of Tokugawa Japan"

Cox, Karen University of Virginia, "Party System Change in Japan"

Grumbach, Lisa Stanford University, "The Religions Hunting Rituals of Suwa Jinja"

Jacobowitz, Seth Cornell University, "Mediated Writing: The Discourse of Realism, 1890-1930"

Johnson, Eric University of Chicago, "The History of Inkyo in Twentieth Century Japan"

Kim, Jayne Columbia University, "Pollution Discourse and Marginalized Groups in Medieval Japan"

Kitanaka, Junko McGill University, "Society in Distress: the psychiatric production of depression in contemporary Japan" Ryu, Grace University of California, Los Angeles, "Critique of Empire: Japanese Marxism and Imperialism"

Shirai, Yoko University of California, Los Angeles, "Senbutsu: Figured Clay Tiles, Buddhism, and Political Developments on the Japanese Islands, 650-710"

Sorensen, Joseph University of California at Berkeley, "Utaawase: Poetry Contests of Classical Japan"

Webb, Jason Princeton University, "The Custody of Tradition: Heian Bilingual Poetic Texts"

Zwicker, Jonathan Columbia University, "Tears of Blood: Melodrama, the Novel, and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth Century Japan"

Visiting Professorship Grants

Visiting Professorship Grants assist American academic institutions wishing to invite guest scholars or artists-in-residence from Japan to teach at their institutions. The grant covers round-trip airfare and up to 75% of the visitor's salary. A total of $33,234 went to one university for a visiting professorship in the following field:

Temple University Beasley School of Law, Comparative Constitutional Law

Staff Expansion Grants

Staff Expansion Grants extend financial assistance over a 3-year period for the creation of new teaching positions in Japan-related areas at American academic institutions. The awards cover up to one-half of the appointee's salary and fringe benefits. Awards total $56,011 for the first year (2000-2001). The following universities received staff expansion awards:

Saint Mary's College of Maryland, Assistant Professor of Asian Dramatic Arts

University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Research/Professional Conference Grants

Research/Professional Cconference Grants provide limited support to research and academic institutions for Japan-related research and professional conferences conducted in the United States that are the result of collaborative efforts rather than the work of a single individual. The awards cover a maximum of $40,000 for projects with duration of up to two years. Grants were awarded to seven institutions for conferences totaling $180,330:

Columbia University Architecture and Modern Japan

Duke University Triangle East Asian Colloquium

Social Science Research Council SSRC Japan Studies Dissertation Conference

Southern Japan Seminar Southern Japan Seminar

University of Illinois Midwest Japan Seminar

University of Michigan The Context of Japanese Law in the Twenty-First Century

Washington University Acts of Writing: Language and the Construction of National Identities in Japanese Literature

Library Support Programs

Library Support Programs promote research on and understanding of Japan through donations of Japan-related books and other materials to American research and educational institutions above the high school level.

Eleven institutions received a total of ¥15,951,000 in Library Support. Six institutions whose Japan Studies programs are in the early stages of development received Library Support grants for Japan-related books in English. Applicants are given a list of selected titles in English from which they may select a basic set from all fields (Category A1) or request individual titles from the list (Category A2) up to a value of ¥1,000,000. Of those institutions receiving support, eight were in Category A1 and two in Category A2.

Category A1

 Delta State University

Category A2

 Carnegie Mellon University  Clemson University  Montana State University, Bozeman  Southwest Missouri State University  University of Mississippi

Institutions with established Japanese-language collections compile their own lists of Japanese-language titles up to a value of ¥2,000,000 in Category B1 (specific project) and B2 (reference materials). Support for Categories B1 and B2 can be in the form of donations of books and materials or monetary grants. This year four institutions received grants in Category B1 and one award was given in Category B2.

Category B1

 Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian  Indiana University  Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art  University of California, Los Angeles

Category B2

 State University of New York, Albany

Publication Assistance

Publication Assistance provides publishers with subsidies to help cover one-quarter to one-half of the production costs of high quality, Japan-related books in the humanities, social sciences and the arts in languages other than Japanese. Four grants totaled $25,275:

Princeton University Press for Constitutional Government in Japan: The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio (1858-1954)

University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies for Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Pre-modern Japan

University of Hawaii Press for Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan Wayne State University Press for The Glory of Life: The Silent Scenario and the Pure Film Movement

Artist Fellowship Program

Artist Fellowships gives artists and specialists in the arts the opportunity to pursue creative projects in Japan with their Japanese counterparts for periods of two to six months. Five awards were granted to:

Echelman, Janet for "Floating Scuplture"

Gross, Alexander for "Vintage Advertising and Packaging Research"

Jewell, Jeffrey for "A Study of the Woodfire Techniques of Isobe Akira"

Phillips, Sandra for "Japanese Photography of the 1960s and 1970s: from VIVO to Provoke"

Stathacos, Chrysanne for "Wishing on Nature: The Wish Machine"

Film Production Support

Film Production Support of up to ¥5,000,000 is provided to experienced individuals or organizations for the production of films, TV programs and/or other audio-visual materials that further understanding of Japan or Japanese culture. Grants totaling ¥1,800,000 were made for the following project:

Ellis Production for "Small World" Exhibitions Abroad Program

Exhibitions Abroad Program provides funding to museums and galleries for exhibitions introducing Japanese art and culture. Grants totaling approximately ¥8,500,000 went to: Ceramics of Tatsuzo Simaoka, A Living Treasure of Japan at the Mingei International

Connoisseurship and Collecting: an Exhibition of Japanese Woodblock Prints at the Michigan Oriental Art Society (MI)

Exhibition of Sound Installation at The Mattress Factory (PA)

Japanese Fishermen's Coats from Awaji Island at the University Art Museum (CA)

Kenzo Okada: A Retrospective of the American Years, 1950 - 1982 at the University of Iowa Museum of Art (IA)

Public Offerings: The Avant Garde and the Art School in the 1990s at the Museum of Contemporary Art (CA)

2000 International Cartoon Exhibition at the United Nations by Kyoto International Cartoonist Congress (NY) Support Program for Japanese-Language Courses Abroad (Salary Assistance/Support for Courses Grant Programs)

Support Program for Japanese-Language Courses Abroad (Salary Assistance Grant Program) provides assistance over a three-year period to educational, cultural or public affairs organizations for the creation of full-time Japanese-language teaching positions. Support is on a cost-sharing basis, with the Foundation contributing up to two-thirds of the appointee's salary and fringe benefits. Awards to six grantees totaled ¥20,185,792 for the first year period:

California State University, Long Beach (CA)

Carleton College (MN)

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (NC)

Concordia School (CA)

University of New Orleans (LA)

Western Michigan University (MI)

Support Program for Japanese-Language Courses Abroad (Support For Courses) provides assistance to fund the teaching staff's salaries in cases of financial difficulties faced by institutions conducting Japanese language education. Grants are mainly given for the management of courses, and are limited to cases in which there is expectation that the organization will become self-supporting in the near future. Awards to two grantees amounted to ¥763,200.

Louisiana State University, Shreveport (LA)

Shaler Area School District (PA)