http://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/02program/

The Toyota Foundation offers a number of grant opportunities for research and activities in Japan. Although the theme specifics for some programs listed are geared towards previous years, they include:

• Grant Program for Community Activities

In keeping with our theme “Connnecting People, Activating Localities: Crating Frameworks to Forge New Communities”, we are supporting ambitious approaches that, while firmly grounded in the community character, breed independent initiative, forge mutual ties, and help to resolve local issues. This fiscal year, we have instated a special program exclusively for areas and people victimized by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Its thrust is support for activities aimed at the rebuilding of lives as well as the revival and reconstruction of local communities.

• Asian Neighbors Program

In 2012, the Program offers a one-year specific special-purpose grant scheme. It aims to support an organization or a network to conduct both (a) to bring together people from different countries who have been working to tackle various issues in Asian countries, and (b) based on their experiences and mutual learning, to compile a report showing a vision and paths towards a prosperous and diversified Asia in the future.

• Research Grant Program

Based on the theme of “Exploring Knowledge to Build a Better Future,” the program provides support to researches uncavering new relations between people, nature, and culture, and aspiring to an enriched society in which people sustain each other. In particular, the program targets research projects with important social significance that adopt a pioneering stance based on flexible ideas that are not limited by existing frameworks.

• Communication with Society Program

This Foundation-driven program, which provides funding only to past grant recipients, is aimed at promoting the results of past projects funded by Toyota Foundation grants.

• Initiative Program

This Foundation-driven program primarily supports the following sorts of projects.
— Projects undertaken in partnership with the Toyota Foundation’s own survey activities or study groups
— Initiatives that strengthen and develop the NPO sector as a whole by bolstering the organizational and activity foundations for private-sector NPO organizations
— Initiatives that address socially important issues that are difficult to support via the application-based programs
— Other initiatives that are recognized to be particularly urgent

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The length and amount of grants varies. Detailed information on each individual grant can be found on the homepage: http://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/02program/

Be aware that some applications are Japanese only!