Announcing the Recipients of JPP’s Fall 2026 Project Funding

Japan Past & Present is delighted to announce the recipients of our Fall 2026 Project Funding competition. During this cycle, we received compelling applications from researchers and educators around the world, including many that included scholars at different career stages and from a variety of regions, embodying the global vision for the field to which JPP is committed. We congratulate the teams that were selected:

Tracing Japanese Community in Sarawak Through Cemetery Epigraphy and Historical Memory
サラワク州クチンにおける日本人日本人社会の軌跡──墓碑銘と歴史的記憶を通して

• Asmadi bin Hassan アスマディ・ビン・ハッサン, Senior Lecturer, University of Malaya (Team Coordinator)

• Noraini binti Mohamed Hassan ノライニ・ビンティ・モハメドハッサン, Senior Lecturer, University of Malaya

• Satoshi Masutani 桝谷鋭, Professor, Rikkyo University

• Md Nasrudin bin Md Akhir モハメドナスルディン・ビン・モハメドアキール, Emeritus, University of Malaya

Shigemitsu Mamoru and The Tokyo Trial: Translating into English Shigemitsu Mamoru's Sugamo Prison Diary (1946–1950)
重光葵と東京裁判──重光葵『巣鴨日記』（1946年～1950年）の英訳

• Anne Sokolsky アン・ソコルスキー, Visiting Associate Professor, Denison University (Team Coordinator)

• Shao-yun Yang 楊劭允, Associate Professor, Denison University

• Yuma Totani 戸谷由麻, Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

• Yusuke Henry Bent 勇亮ヘンリー・ベント, Research Associate, Waseda University

• Akari Hayashi 林あかり, Undergraduate Student, Denison University

We are excited to work with these teams over the next several months to develop their projects and prepare them for publication on the JPP website, thus facilitating JPP’s mission to foster multilingual collaboration, communication, and scholarship, and disseminate their results to a global audience. Thank you to everyone who applied! Please be sure to subscribe to our news blog and follow us across social media (Twitter, Facebook, & Bluesky)  to receive information about our next Project Funding recruitment cycle.

Michael Emmerich
Director, Japan Past & Present
Director, The Yanai Initiative

Paula R. Curtis
Operations Leader, Japan Past & Present
Academic Administrator, Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA