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Grant for Projects for the Protection, Preservation & Restoration of Cultural Properties outside Japan

Purpose of the Program:

The program is offered so that cultural properties outside Japan, the common heritage of human, be handed down to future generations.

Eligible Projects for Application:

(1)        Projects for the protection, preservation & restoration of cultural properties (i.e., fine arts or historical monuments) outside Japan, which are tangible, old and artistically or academically valuable, and ought to be handed down to future generations.
(2)        Preliminary surveys immediately linked up with the projects as mentioned in (1) above.

Qualification of Applicant:

(1)        Applicant shall be the owner(s) or administrator(s) of the cultural properties or researcher(s), who will actually conduct preliminary surveys.
(2)        The following are not eligible:

(ⅰ)      profit-making corporations,
(ⅱ)      individuals who own cultural properties for profit or whose cultural properties are for private use only.

Fiscal 2011 Program:

Application period : October 1 ～ November 30, 2011

Grant period : One year (March 2012 through March 2013)
Grant budget :
Approx. 35 million yen in total, with approx. 15 projects to be selected

Grant for Projects for the Protection, Preservation & Restoration of Cultural Properties in Japan, Grant for Environmental Research Projects, and Grant for Basic Science Research Projects

To be applied in Japanese language only, the application period of each grant program in Fiscal 2012 is as follows;

Grant for Projects for the Protection, Preservation & Restoration of Cultural Properties in Japan : October 1 through November 30, 2012

Grant for Environmental Research Projects : April/mid through June 29, 2012

Grant for Basic Science Research Projects : April/mid through June 29, 2012