The Toyota Foundation solicits proposals for cross-disciplinary survey research projects that are firmly oriented toward problem resolution and address the issues of what kinds of culture have been created by cross-border collaboration. Proposals must additionally address how to promote cross-border cultural creation. Research should examine culture created at the private-sector level in the maritime region of East Asia, which is the historical artery of exchange in
East Asia. Maritime East Asia is provisionally defined as the area of sea surrounded by coastal areas of
China, the
Korean
Peninsula,
Japan, and the maritime region of the Russian Far East. Project teams should have an international membership. Project results should take the form of DVDs or other video media.
Applications are accepted regardless of applicant nationality, gender, educational background, etc. Applicants must, however, have a certain level of project management ability (such as schedule management, cultivation of a common approach to problems within the project team, coordination
