Japan study grants at the National Library of Australia.

• Author: McKenzie, Amelia

Applications for the National Library of Australia's 2010 Japan Study Grants close on 30 September

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The Japan Study Grants scheme supports academics, postgraduate students and researchers to spend up to four weeks in Canberra using the Japanese and Japan-related collections at the National Library of Australia. Funded by the H.S. Williams Trust Fund, the grants are aimed at applicants who do not have access to Japanese resources in the centres where they live. The grants fund travel and living costs and are open to Australian residents living outside of Canberra.

Four researchers took up grants in 2009:

* Dr Yasuko Claremont, Senior Lecturer, Department of Japanese Studies, University of Sydney, who researched the...