Guidelines for application for the FY2024 Trust Research
Grant Program
Trust Companies Association of Japan

1. Background and Purposes
Trust Companies Association of Japan (TCAJ) has provided grants to research
project to contribute toward the development of trust system in Japan since 1972. We
are seeking grant application FY2024.
2. Eligibility
Both Individual and joint group studying trust system in jurisprudence or economics
of any nationality are eligible. There are three classes as follows.
Class 1
Professor, associate professor or lecturer in universities or researcher withequivalent careers at research institutes, or joint research group consisted ofthose persons
Class 2Assistant professor in universities, graduate student or researcher withequivalent careers at research institutes, or joint research group consisted ofthose persons
Class 3
Joint research group of assistant professor in universities, graduate student orundergraduate, under their Professors’ guidance（However, except for thejoint research group that constitutes only undergraduates）
3. The Total Amount of Grant
The total amount of grants: 10 million yen.
4. Theme
No limitations are placed on research theme if it relates to trust.
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5. Grant Period
It is within two years in principle.
6. Application Procedure1) To apply for the grant program, you have to submit the following application forms.
*Please look at the website of TCAJ to get these application forms.
ⅰ）application formⅱ）project proposal formⅲ）C.V.
ⅳ）essay
No limitations are placed on the theme. It is no inconvenience whether it has
already been released in public or not. Please attach the abstract to the essay.
ⅴ）letter of recommendation
You can omit it if you do not have any appropriate recommenders.
In the case of joint research group, please submit the C.V. and the essay ofall researchers.
2) Please fill in these application forms in Japanese.
You can use any foreign languages in the case of the essay(ⅳ）above).
3) Please submit the application documents by e-mail in principle.
However, 1) iv essay can also be submitted in paper.
7. Due Date for application
Saturday, 30th Monday, 2024
8. Determination, notification and announcement of the awarding
Formal decision on the awarding of grants will be made at Board of Directors, TCAJ,
based on the deliberation of the Selection Committee of Trust Research Grant
Program. The applicants(the representatives of the group in the case of joint researchgroup) will be notified of the selection results by the end of December, 2024. The
names, affiliations, positions, research themes of the successful applicants will also
be announced on news releases, the bulletin which is named “Kaihou -Shintaku” andthe website of TCAJ etc.

2Members of the Selection Committee
The chairman Akira YONEKURA (Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo)
Motoshige ITO (Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo )Hideki KANDA (Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo ）Atsushi KINAMI (Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University
Project Professor at Kyoto University)
Yoshihisa NOMI (Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo)
Noriyuki YANAGAWA (Professor at the University of Tokyo)
Naoyuki YOSHINO (Professor Emeritus at Keio University)

9. Obligations of recipients of the awarding
1) Each recipient has to submit the progress report form by the end of August everyyear.
*Please look at the website of TCAJ to get these application forms.
2) Each recipient has to submit the final report (around 10000 – 30000 words inJapanese) within three months after the end of the grant period.
In principle, the final report will be published in the booklet and be listed on thewebsite of TCAJ.
3) Failure to comply with the grant requirements could result in a request for returnof the grant funds.
4) The grant funds are only used for the research applied for the grant program.
Indirect costs so-called overhead are not included in the grant funds.
Contact details of applications
Research Department(Charge of Trust Research Grant Program), Trust Companies
Association of Japan(TCAJ)
Kishimoto Bldg, 2-1, Marunouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan 100-0005
Phone：+81-(0)3-6206-3987*Forms for application can be downloaded on the website of TCAJ.
(https://www.shintaku-kyokai.or.jp/en/association/association02_02_01.html).

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