The Inamori Foundation is pleased to announce the 2021 Kyoto Prize laureates on June 18, 2021 after a one-year postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On March 19, 2021, the Inamori Foundation announced the two 2021 fellows for the Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship Program, Hiroshi Nishimasu (Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo) and Yoshifumi Yamaguchi (Professor, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University) were selected from 66 applicants. InaRIS Fellowship Program...
The Kyoto University－Inamori Foundation Joint Kyoto Prize Symposium (KUIP) aims to widely share the latest trends and attractions of cutting-edge research with society. Hosted by Kyoto University and co-hosted by the Inamori Foundation, KUIP has been held in Kyoto since 2014 and in Tokyo since 2018. This year, KUIP will be held for the first...
Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship Program is a research grant program that allows researchers to pursue challenging projects over a 10-year period. The Advisory Board Meeting of InaRIS Fellowship Program was held on October 26 at the Inamori Foundation in Kyoto to have a discussion over the fellows’ research themes. InaRIS Fellowship Program...
“Plants provide us with the splendid colours that they possess for nothing in return” —Fukumi Shimura, 2014 Kyoto Prize laureates in Arts and Philosophy The exhibition “Shimura Fukumi: Her Vocation to Weave Life” is running at Himeji City Museum of Art in Hyogo prefecture until August 30, 2020. This exhibition explores some 60 years of...
New exhibition featuring Dr. Masatoshi Nei, the 2013 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences opened at the University of Miyazaki. Dr. Nei, an evolutionary biologist, proposed what is now called “Nei’s Genetic Distance,” which quantifies differences in the vestiges of evolution that remain within proteins and DNA in his 1972 paper. This innovative idea has...
On April 10, 2020, the Inamori Foundation announced the 2020 fellows for the Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) Fellowship Program. As the first two InaRIS fellows for this new program, Tadashi Takayanagi (Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University) and Atsushi Noguchi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Art and Sciences, The University of...
The InaRIS Fellowship Program grants 10 million yen per year over 10 years (totaling 100 million yen) to researchers engaged in investigations into topics with high potential based on a grand vision, providing them with opportunities to indulge themselves in research activities and pursue the possibility of triggering a quantum leap in science. The keyword...
The Inamori Foundation is pleased to announce that Kazuo Inamori, Founder of Inamori Foundation received the title of Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) from Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom on November 28. ▶For more information, please see the official news from British Embassy Tokyo...
The 2016 Kyoto Prize laureate in Advanced Technology, Dr. Takeo Kanade, Roboticist; the 2011 Kyoto Prize laureate in Arts and Philosophy, Tamasaburo Bando V, Kabuki Actor were accredited as Person of Cultural Merits. Dr. Shun-ichi Amari, who has assumed the position as Director of the Inamori Foundation for a long time, was awarded the Order...
The Inamori Foundation (President: Kazuo Inamori) is pleased to announce the laureates of the 2019 Kyoto Prize.
The InaRIS Fellowship Program is a new program of the research grants that the Inamori Foundation established in 2019. One of the members of InaRIS Fellowship Operation Committee, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, Kyoto University, commented on its characteristics.