NIHU Global Partnership
Co-creation Outreach - NIHU Global Partnership
NIHU has built collaborative research relationships with foreign research institutions involved in humanities research. We actively promote to invite foreign researchers and dispatch researchers overseas, and hold and send speakers to international conferences.
▷ Overseas Research Facilities
NIHU opened overseas research facilities (liaison offices) to promote international collaborative research with foreign institutions. The offices provide information on research on Japan and Japanese culture to people in other countries.
▷ Agreement with UK's Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
NIHU signed an agreement with the United Kingdom's Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in 2007 to facilitate the exchange of post-graduates and early career researchers. The agreement has been renewed several times since then and a cooperative relationship has developed between the two organizations. Based on this agreement, at the request of the AHRC, NIHU provides placements and research guidance to graduate students and early career researchers from the UK who wish to pursue Japanese studies. NIHU continues to contribute to the development of overseas researchers through these types of activities.
▷ NIHU Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits
In order to contribute to NIHU projects and expand overseas research opportunities (survey research and presentations at international conferences, etc.), young researchers participating in NIHU Research Projects and NIHU Co-creation Initiatives are dispatched to overseas universities and international research conferences.
NIHU Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits (Japanese only)
NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies
The Inter-University Research Institute Corporation National Institutes for the Humanities (hereinafter, “NIHU”) established the NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies in January 2019 with cooperation from the Kuraray Foundation. This award is aimed at not only promoting the international development of Japanese studies, but also deepening and boosting the comprehension of Japan in academia.
The prize is awarded to a researcher based outside of Japan who has achieved outstanding academic achievements in Japanese philosophy, religion, thought, art, literature, language, history, folklore, society, environment, and other fields in the Humanities, and who has made a significant contribution to the international development of Japanese studies, and honors his/her performance.
NIHU president KIBE(left), and the fifth winner Dr. SHIBATANI (right)