The Research Grant (Overseas)
The Okawa Foundation awards grants to researchers in the field of information and telecommunications at the eligible universities designated by our foundation. Each applicant is required to be nominated by Dean/Chair of the university one belongs.
Grant
$1,200,000 per research (China and Korea)/ US$10,000 per research (USA)
Eligible Universities
USA
University of California, Berkeley
Stanford University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Southern California
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
China
Peking University
Tsinghua University
Fudan University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Korea
Seoul National University
Korea University
Yonsei University
Selection Committee of the Research Grant
Chairman of the Committee

  • Hideyuki Tokuda
  • Advisor, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Committee Members
  • Akiko Aizawa
  • Vice Director-General and Professor, National Institute of Informatics
  • Kaoru Arakawa
  • Dean and Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University
  • Kaoru Endo
  • Professor Emeritus, Gakushuin University
  • Tadamasa Kimura
  • Professor, Rikkyo University
  • Kentaro Shimizu
  • Specially Appointed Professor, Japan Women's University
    Specially Appointed Professor and Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
  • Norimasa Sugiura
  • Director,Telecommunication Systems Division, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
  • Kazuo Seiyama
  • Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
  • Fuji Ren
  • Professor Emeritus, University of Tokushima
  • Michitaka Hirose
  • Professor, Tokyo University of Technlogy
    Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo