The University has received a £2.5 million boost for studies of Modern Japan.
Oxford has been chosen as one of 13 UK Universities to receive the funding from The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and The Nippon Foundation, a Tokyo-based private grant making body.
The cash will be used to create a Career Development Fellowship, the Sasakawa Lectureship, which will be held jointly between the Department of Sociology and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies.
Dr Ian Neary, Director of the Nissan Institute, said, "This generous support from the Sasakawa Foundation will fill an important gap in the teaching of social sciences at Oxford by enabling us to appoint someone able to work on key issues troubling Japanese society."
The Earl of St Andrews, Chairman of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, said, "Japan remains the world’s second largest economy and one of the UK’s most important partners for both trade and investment. Expertise in Japanese language and in the country’s economy, culture, history and politics will remain essential if the British-Japanese relationship is to prosper and British interests in relation to Japan are to be safeguarded."
Cash injection for Japanese studies
