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 2019 Kyoto Prize Week ended with the laureate lectures in Kagoshima prefecture. The lectures took place on November 16 attended by 1200 which includes many high school students. Inamori Foundation invites the students in Kagoshima’s remote islands every year in order to give them, who will bear the next generation, the opportunities to enjoy...
On November 11, some 1000 people gathered in the Kyoto International Conference Center to attend the commemorative lectures given by the three Kyoto Prize laureates of this year. Dr. Tang delivered an insightful lecture on his discovery and evolution of the OLED; Dr. Gunn talked on his amazing accomplishments and future of Sloan Digital Sky...
Today on November 10, the 2019 Kyoto Prize Presentation Ceremony was held at the Kyoto International Conference Center, attended by 1150 guests from Japan and abroad. Here’s the highlights video from the beautiful presentation ceremony!
On November 9, 2019 Kyoto Prize laureates visited the Inamori Foundation to greet the President of the Foundation. The laureates and their families enjoyed talking while seeing the photos of former laureates and the past presentation ceremony. Here, the messages from the laureates to the Inamori Foundation! “I thank the Inamori Foundation for the high...
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: Shinobu Inamori-Kanazawa) is pleased to announce the 2019 Kyoto Prize Week Media Guidelines. We would appreciate it if you could make your schedule to conduct newsgathering during the Kyoto Prize Week. We would be obliged if these guidelines could be helpful for your newsgathering activities. Thank you very much for your...
Kyoto Kokoro Initiative symposium was held at Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall on October 14, 2019. This year marks the 4th anniversary of the Kyoto Kokoro Initiative. Under the theme of “Kokoro and Artifical Mind,” Toru Nishigaki, Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo; Tetsuya Ogata, Professor, Waseda University; Makoto Nagao, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University...
Dr. Michel Mayor, the 2015 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences was announced as a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of Extrasolar Planet on October 8, 2019. Congratulations! None of the existence of exoplanets orbiting Sun-like star has been discovered over 50 years, before Dr. Mayor found out the exoplanet...
The Inamori Foundation (President: Shinobu Inamori-Knazawa) is pleased to announce the event schedule of the 2019 Kyoto Prize, including the Prize Presentation Ceremony on November 10 and opportunities for the media interviewing with the laureates. Your attention would be highly appreciated.