The Sainsbury Institute is delighted to announce that it has been awarded the prestigious Japan Foundation Award for 2024, coinciding with our 25th anniversary year.
Now in its 51st year, the Foundation has presented the Japan Foundation Awards to individuals and organisations that have made significant contributions to promoting international mutual understanding and friendship between Japan and other countries through academic, artistic, and other cultural pursuits. Three recipients were selected as the winners of this year’s award from a total of 60 candidates nominated by experts and the public.
Alongside artist Shiota Chiharu and the Association of Japanese Language Teachers of Mongolia, the Institute was recognised for its significant international contribution to the study of Japanese arts and cultures. Through our research and outreach projects, world-class resources such as the Lisa Sainsbury Library, and networks of collaborators, partners, fellows and associates across the globe, the Institute was cited by the Japan Foundation as “immensely active as a core institution of Japanese research in Europe” – you can read the full press release here.
The Sainsbury Institute is immensely proud to receive this award. We thank the Japan Foundation for this recognition, and our Board, staff, Fellows, Associates, research partners, friends, visitors, audiences and supporters, without whom the Institute would not be what it is today. We hope our founding benefactors, Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury would be proud of what they created, which continues to be generously supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and our other sponsors. We will be bringing you more ambitious activities and events as part of our Japan in Norwich anniversary programme this year, and will look forward to the next 25 years of pioneering and innovative research in the field of Japanese arts and cultures.