| |
| Grants 2012/2013 Grant Cycle |
| Proposals offered assistance in the 2012-2013 grant cycle of the Hoso Bunka Foundation's annual Grants totaled 42, including 4 from abroad. They were selected from among the 99 submitted. |
| <Selected Projects
from Abroad> |
•Comparative studies about the new media between China and Japan
in the development of digitization
amount of grant ¥1,200,000
Lv Yanmei
Head of the New media department, China Communication Research Center, State Administration of Radio, Film & TV Peaple's Republic of China, China |
|
•Empowering Women in Community Media
amount of grant ¥600,000
Golam Mourtoza
Director, Centre for Communication and Development (CCD Bangladesh), Bangladesh |
|
•Quality improvement of Children’s Drama Co-Production, and Promotion of its exchange with outside ABU members
amount of grant ¥1,200,000
Takeshi Doki
Director, Programme Department, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia |
|
•Creative Content for Children's Programmes
amount of grant ¥1,200,000
Binyuan Yang
Director, Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD), Malaysia |
| Grants 2011/2012 Grant Cycle |
| Proposals offered assistance in the 2010-2011 grant cycle of the Hoso Bunka Foundation's annual Grants totaled 50, including 4 from abroad. They were selected from among the 142 submitted. |
| <Selected Projects
from Abroad> |
• Research on Emergency Warning Broadcast in Japan
amount of grant ¥1,200,000
Chengsheng Yan
Executive Director, The Chinese Association for Radio, Film and Television Exchanges, China |
|
• Empowering Women in Community Media
amount of grant ¥700,000
Mourtoza Golam
Director
Centre for Communication and Development (CCD Bangladesh),
Bangladesh |
|
• Encouragement of Children's Educational Programme Exchange inside and outside of the ABU
amount of grant ¥1,000,000
Takeshi Doki
Director, Programming, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia |
|
• Operational Management for Broadcasting Developmnets
amount of grant ¥600,000
Sadhu Sharadindoo
Director, Technology, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia |
| Grants 2010/2011 Grant Cycle |
| Proposals offered assistance in the 2010-2011 grant cycle of the Hoso Bunka Foundation's annual Grants totaled 50, including 4 from abroad. They were selected from among the 142 submitted. |
| <Selected Projects
from Abroad> |
• Holding of Symposium on " Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Age for the development of co-production by China and Japan"
amount of grant ¥1,000,000
Chengsheng Yan
Executive Director, The Chinese Association for Radio, Film and Television Exchanges, China |
|
• TV Programme Co-production based on UNPD's Millennium Development Goals
amount of grant ¥1,000,000
Takeshi Doki
Director, Programme Department, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia |
|
• HBF-ABU SECOND PREPARATORY SEMINAR FOR WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE 2012(SM-2)
amount of grant ¥1,000,000
Sadhu Sharadindoo
Director, Thechnical Department, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia |
|
• "Designing edutainment audiovisual programmes & applications for new medhia-Iphon, smartphone, Facebook and Internet"
amount of grant ¥900,000
Manil Cooray
Deputy Director
Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development(AIBD), Malaysia |
| Grants 2009/2010 Grant Cycle |
| Proposals offered assistance in the 2009-2010 grant cycle of the Hoso Bunka Foundation's annual Assistance Grants totaled 49, including 4 from abroad. They were selected from among the 145 submitted. |
| <Selected Projects
from Abroad> |
• Quality Content Production for Radio and TV Programmes
amount of grant ¥1,800,000
Tatsuya Nakamura
Director, Programme Department, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia |
|
• Project Management for Broadcast Engineers & Business Planners
amount of grant ¥1,500,000
Sadhu Sharadindoo
Director Technical Department, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia |
|
• Translation and Dobbing from English to Khmer, NHK TV Programs supplied by Cultural Grant Aid of the Japanese Government
amount of grant ¥1,000,000
Nath Pang
Deputy Director General, National Television of Cambodia, Cambodia |
|
• Student and Educator Use of YouTube: Understanding New Broadcast Culture in Colleges
amount of grant ¥1,000,000
Jung Insung
Professor, International Christian University, Korea |
| Grants 2008/2009 Grant Cycle |
| Proposals offered assistance in the 2008-2009 grant cycle of the Hoso Bunka Foundation's annual Assistance Grants totaled 49, including 3 from abroad. They were selected from among the 140 submitted. |
| <Selected Projects
from Abroad> |
•"How to Create Quality Content" In-Country Workshop for Radio and TV Producers in Asia-Pacific, Tatsuya Nakamura,
Director, Programme Department, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia. |
|
•HBF-ABU First Regional Preparatory Seminoar for World Radiocommunication Conference 2011 (SM-1), Sadhu Sharadindoo,
Director, Technical Department, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia. |
|
| •A Regional Television Project on Going Green with the Family, Javad Mottaghi, Director Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD), Malaysia. |
| Grants 2007/2008 Grant Cycle |
| Proposals offered assistance in the 2007-2008 grant cycle
of the Hoso Bunka Foundation’s annual Grants totaled
49, including 2 from abroad. They were selected from among
the 142 submitted. |
| <Selected Projects
from Abroad> |
•TV Documentary Screening / Exchange and Workshop,
Tatsuya Nakamura,
Director, Programme Department, Asia-Pacific
Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia. |
|
•Project Management Techniques (BM-3)-2008,
Sadhu Sharadindoo,
Director, Technical Department, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU),
Malaysia. |
| Grants 2006/2007 Grant Cycle |
| Proposals offered assistance in the 2006-2007 grant cycle
of Hoso Bunka Foundation’s annual Grants totaled
50, including 4 from abroad. They were selected from among
the 122 submitted. |
| <Selected Projects
from Abroad> |
•A study of Korean viewers’ reactions toward
NHK’s historical dramas and a comparative study of
Japanese and Korean historical dramas, Soon Ae Park, Associate
Professor, Department of Japanese Language, Honam University,
Korea. |
|
| •A Regional Seminar on Fictional and Real
Violence in Children's Television, Javad Mottaghi, Director,
Asia-Pacific Institute For Broadcasting Development (AIBD),
Malaysia. |
|
| •Drama Production Workshop:How to make Quality TV Drama,
Tatsuya Nakamura, Director, Programme Department, Asia-Pacific
Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia. |
|
| •World Radiocommunication Conference 2007
Final Regional Preparatory Workshop(SM-2), Wayne Rodney Heads,
Director, Technical Department, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU),
Malaysia. |
|
| Grants 2005/2006 Grant
Cycle |
| Proposals offered assistance in the 2005-2006 grant cycle
of Hoso Bunka Foundation’s annual Grants totaled
52, including 4 from abroad. They were selected from among the
132 submitted. |
| <Selected Projects from Abroad> |
•Japanese Television Broadcasting in South Korea Since
the Removal of the Ban: Their impact on local industry and
consumers, Nissim Kadosh Otmazgin, ASAFAS Kyoto University. |
|
| •Regional Workshop on "Infotainment
Programmes for Children's Television", Javad Mottaghi,
Director, Asia-Pacific Institute For Broadcasting Development
(AIBD), Malaysia. |
|
| •Co-Production of Children's Drama Series by Asia-Pacific
producers, Haruo Sakitsu, Director, Programme Department, Asia-Pacific
Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia. |
|
| •Project Management Techniques(BM-2)-2006,
Wayne Rodney Heads, Director, Technical Department, Asia-Pacific
Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia. |
|
| Grants 2004/2005 Grant Cycle |
| Grants Offered to 48 out of172 Proposals 2004/2005
Grant Cycle |
| From among a total of 172 proposals, including 4 from abroad,
have been selected for a grants. |
<Selected Projects from Abroad>
•Japanese Television
Programming in China and Chinese Viewers' Perception of Japan,
Junhao Hong, Associate Professor & Executive Associate,
Department of Communication, State University of New York at
Buffalo, U.S.A.
•Co-Production of Children's Drama Series by Asia-Pacific
producers, Haruo Sakitsu,Director,Programme Department, Asia-Pacific
Broadcasting Union(ABU), Malaysia
•World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 Preparatory
Workshop (SM-1), Wayne Rodney Heads, Director Technical Department,
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU)
•On-the-job training for young female producers
of youth and children's programmes in RTA-Afghanistan, Ghulam
Hassan Hazrati, General Director, Radio-Television of Afghanistan(RTA),
Afghanistan |
| Grants 2003/2004 Grant Cycle |
< Category of Technological Development >
The number of proposals received from domestic researchers was
42, out of which seventeen were selected for grants. Proposals
in this category have come only from Japanese researchers in
recent years. |
< Category of Researches and Studies >
Twenty-five projects, including two from abroad, have been selected
for a grant out of the 54 in this category.
•Comparison of Broadcast Culture Values in Japanese &
U.S. Journalists, Thomas J. Brislin, Professor of University
of Hawaii
•Soft Power and the Comparative Political Economy of Television
in Asia, Leheny R. David, Assistant Professor of University
of Wisconsin-Madison |
< Category of Projects and Events>
From among a total of 28 proposals, 14 projects, including
four from abroad, have been selected for a grants.
•Violence on the Screen and Children's Rights, Javad Mottaghi,
Director of Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development(AIBD)
•Engineering Business Planning (BM-1)-2004, Wayne R. Heads,
Director, Technical Department of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting
Union (ABU)
•Expand relations with international organisations for
ABU Children's Programme activities, Haruo Sakitsu, Director,
Programme Department of Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)
•On-the-job training for young female producers of youth
and children's programmes in RTA-Afghanistan, Ghulam H. Hazaratig,
General Director of Radio Television of Afghanistan(RTA)
|
| Grants 2002/2003 Grant Cycle |
< Category of Technological Development >
The number of proposals received from domestic researchers was
35, out of which fifteen were selected for grants. Proposals
in this category have come only from Japanese researchers in
recent years. The themes of projects to be carried out with
the HBF grants this year come from sectors that include fundamental
studies on electronic devices and materials to be used for broadcasting
equipment and facilities, studies on broad band transmission,
and development of a prototype of a possible large capacity
TV recorder -a home server.
Among the fundamental research projects is a proposal by Associate
Professor Kazuhiko Hara of Tokyo Institute of Technology to
make a new luminescent material for TV displays. The new material,
which employs the excellent light emitting characteristics of
gallium nitride, is expected to produce a break-through in the
efficiency of displays, which is difficult to improve any further
with existing materials. Professor Hara is developing a novel
method of synthesizing gallium nitride powders by the two-stage
chemical vapor process.
One project in current research is aimed at leading to the development
of a prototype model of an archive-style large-capacity home
video recorder. It would take the form of a set-top box(STB)
and provide instant selection and display on the viewer’s
screen of any information demanded from the enormous amount
held in its store. This is proposed by Asst. Professor Shin’ichi
Sato of the National Institute of Informatics, who considers
it necessary to have the technology for a home server of this
kind capable of recording ten-thousand hours’ worth of
TV images on a built-in disc drives with a tera-byte order capacity
within the next five years. |
< Category of Researches and Studies >
This grant category includes traditional media researches and
studies expected to open up new possibilities for researches
on broadcasting by specialists in other fields than broadcasting,
and provides a source of support for younger researchers.
Eighteen projects, including one from abroad, have been selected
for a grant out of the 42 in this category. Associate Processor
Laid Laeed Zaghlami, of the Faculty of Politics and Information
Sciences, University of Algiers, proposes to study the future
of Algerian Public Service Broadcasting. His studies will extend
from the broadcasting system at present to its development and
future possibilities in Algeria, a nation in the process of
change toward democracy and capitalism.
The research theme proposed by Professor Sakae Ishikawa of Sophia
University in Tokyo is the verification of differences in opinion
formation by viewers who habitually watch the same TV news program.
News programs of major channels present diverse view of the
issue today. Professor Ishikawa will conduct field research
in the metropolitan area of Tokyo to see whether the viewers
of different news programs develop different opinion.
Asst. Professor Masumi Sugawara of Ochanomizu Women’s
University in Tokyo will be assisted by an HBF grant in her
international comparative studies on the relation between the
media environment and the development of babies - difference
between the rates of development at home and those in nurseries.
Professor Sugawara will conduct a survey of 120 babies in these
two situations to ascertain what the effects of TV and video
may be. Her studies will be part of a research projects, “Better
Broadcasting for Children” being undertaken by the NHK
Research Institute of Broadcasting Culture. This project will
be jointly carried out with the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development of the United States to compare
the results of researches done in the two countries. |
< Category of Projects and Events>
From among a total of 37 proposals, 16 projects, including five
from abroad, have been selected for a grants.
•One of the five overseas proposals awarded a grant is
for on-the-job training for young female producers of programs
for young people and children broadcast by Radio-Television
of Afghanistan. Reconstruction of Afghanistan broadcasting was
a major topic at the General Conference of the Asia-Pacific
Broadcasting Union, ABU, held in Tokyo last year. The ABU will
give its full support to this HBF grant project for Afghanistan
because under the Taliban regime women in that county were banned
from having any employment.
(Applicant for project grant: Mr. Mohammad Eshaq, General Director,
RTA)
•Three other grants are for projects to be carried out
by the ABU. They are a Children’s TV Programme Exchange
Meeting and Workshop for Co-production Project; a Workshop on
International Co-production with Reference to the Second ABU
Robocon; and a Final Preparatory Workshop for the World Radiocommunication
Conference 2003.
(Applicants: Mr. Saburo Eguchi, Director, ABU Programme Department
and Mr. Wayne Rodney Heads, Director, ABU Technical Department)
•The remaining grant for an overseas project is for the
Translation and Broadcasting of NHK Educational and Documentary
TV Programs, 2nd Phase, by Laotian National Television.
(Applicants: Mr. Pineprathana Phanthamaly, Deputy Director,
Lao National TV)
Many of the grants for domestic projects, eleven in all, are
the nature of continuing assistance to help the preservation
and growth of broadcasting culture and an international festival
of TV programs.
|
|
