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Japan Study Grants 2007–2008

The Japan Study Grant scheme is a new program of annual grants assisting scholars and researchers to spend up to four weeks in Canberra using the Japanese and Japan-related collections of the National Library. Funded by the H.S. Williams Trust Fund, the grants are intended to be a source of practical support for working academics, postgraduates and researchers who do not have access to Japanese resources in the centres where they live. The grants fund travel and living costs for a period of intensive study in the Library using the Japanese collections, and are not open to Canberra residents.

Applications were recently invited for the 2007–2008 year, the first time the grants have been awarded. Fourteen applications were received and assessed in mid-October by a selection panel of National Library representatives, together with Professor Kent Anderson and Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki of the Australian National University. All of the applications were considered to be of good quality, and in a competitive round five were selected to receive an award. The successful applicants have been notified and all have accepted with enthusiasm. They are:

  • Victoria Eaves, University of Tasmania, researching Japanese soldier war diaries
  • Leon Wolff, University of New South Wales, researching the end of lifelong employment in Japan
  • Kate Barclay, University of Technology Sydney, researching the governance of fisheries
  • Mark Pendleton, University of Melbourne, researching the 1995 Tokyo subway gassing
  • Jennifer Harris, Art Gallery of South Australia, researching Meiji Japan and the formation of Japanese art collections in Australian public museums.

Amelia McKenzie
Director, Asian Collections