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Kyoto Prize Room will open inside the newly renovated Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art! We would like to invite you to visit this Kyoto Prize Room and learn about the life and thoughts of the Kyoto Prize Laureates. *After an extended delay due to coronavirus concerns, the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art is...
Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at the Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.) announced that 2020 Inamori Ethics Prize would be presented to Judge Silvia Alejandra Fernández de Gurmendi, an important figure in international justice, humanitarian law and human rights. After her tenure as the Director General for Human Rights at the...
The Inamori Foundation announced the 2020 Inamori Grants 50 recipients on March 17. Out of 538 applicants, 40 from the natural sciences and 10 from the humanities and social sciences were chosen through the rigorous selection.
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...