The Japan Foundation
For candidates who are in the closing stages of their Ph.D. and who need to undertake fieldwork in Japan in order to complete their dissertation/thesis. Proof at the time of application that all other necessary requirements, bar completion of the thesis, have been fulfilled for the award of the Ph.D is needed from the candidate’s supervisor.
Duration of Fellowship: from (no less than) 4 months to (no longer than) 14 months.
Awards were made in 2008-09 for theses on The Socio-Political Identity of Indonesian Immigrants in Japan; Language, Faith and the Poetics of Evil in the Works of Endo Shusaku; The Socio-Medical Role of Shamans in Miyazaki Prefecture.
Useful links
Japanese Studies fellowships
http://www.jpf.org.uk/study_1.html
