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Applying for a Grant via the Internet

The following explains how to submit an Internet application for each grant in the Toyota Foundation grant program.
After reading the information for applicants about each program, start the application procedure on this page. Note that Internet applications can only be submitted by those who can send and receive email via a personal computer.
Carefully follow the flow chart below for the procedures.
For more details, download the "Guide for Internet Applications." Application deadlines are as given below. Please note that the deadline for Internet applications is earlier than the one for postal applications.

Internet application deadline:	May 7, 2010 (until 3:00 p.m., Japan Standard Time)
Postal application deadline:	May 12, 2010 (postmarked by May 12)

How to submit

1. Registering basic information

Enter the information in the prescribed form on the page for registering basic information and click the [Confirm] button.
To stop the process at any time, click the [Cancel] button; the page will close.
After double-checking entries and clicking the [Register] button, a message will be displayed that registering of basic information has been completed. Registering of basic information is thus complete.
※Information may be edited later.

2. Email notifying of completion of registration

When your registration of basic information has been properly entered, email will be sent to the email address you have provided, notifying you of completion of registration. The email will contain the following:

URL of a Webpage for Applicants, which will be usable only by those who have registered.
Log-in ID and password to log in to the Webpage for Applicants.

Access the Webpage for Applicants to continue the procedure.

3. Logging in to the Webpage for Applicants

Access the Webpage for Applicants identified in the email notifying you of acceptance of your registration, and log in with the log-in ID and password.
You may do the following things on the page:

View and edit the basic information you entered
Download a form to submit a project proposal
Send (upload) your proposal
Change your log-in password

4. Editing the information and downloading a form to submit a project proposal

From the Webpage for Applicants, download a form to submit a project proposal and complete it. If you wish to change any of the basic information you have registered, do so on the page for editing registered information.

5. Sending (uploading) your proposal

When you have completed your proposal, send (upload) your proposal file from the Webpage for Applicants. In order to submit your proposal, view and designate the proposal file in your personal computer, and then send (upload) the file using a prescribed form.
Thereafter, the form can neither be resent nor replaced with a new one. Thus, before sending the proposal file, be sure to double-check that all necessary items have been completed.

Caution

Please avoid sending (uploading) your proposal file immediately before the deadline. If many applicants do the same, traffic congestion may cause your submission to be delayed.
Please send (upload) your proposal file as early as possible before the deadline.

6. Completion of application procedure

When the proposal file has been properly sent, the application procedure is complete. From then until May 31, 2010, information in your application can be viewed on this Webpage for Applicants, but neither editing of that information nor sending (uploading) another proposal file will be possible.

Click the button for your desired grant program to start the Internet application procedure.
Guide for Internet Applications	PDF (2,877KB)
Asian Neighbors Program	The application period has ended.
Preservation, Utilization, and Transmission of Indigenous Documents in Asia	The application period has ended.
Research Grant Program	The application period has ended.

If you use e-mail addresses with @yahoo.com

There is a possibility that e-mail messages you received from the Toyota Foundation were recognized as spam mails, and they have been passed into your spam folders.
If that is the case, please take the mails out from your spam folders.
Also, even if you send inqurires to the Foundation by e-mail, our reply may not reach you.
Those who will register for the Foundation's internet applications, please register your e-mail addresses, which are other than addresses with @yahoo.com.

If you open several windows for application at a time, it may cause system error.

Please access the webpage for Applicants only and enter the information. Also, if system error occured when you are using webpage for applicants, please log out and close all windows for application. Then re-access the webpage for applicants again for application procedures.

If Notifying Email is Not Received

If the notifying email is not received but the window indicating completion of registration was shown, there is possibility that you mistyped your email address registered in our website, or our notifying email is sorted as a spam mail. Please confirm the points above first.

If you did not receive notifying email within 24 hours after the registration, please click "Contact Us" on our Webiste and inquire us by the form, or call the folliwng number. When you contact us, please give the name of the representative and the Email address, which you registered in our website.

* Where to contact

"Contact Us": https://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/inquiry/index.html
General Administrative Division, The Toyota Foundation: TEL:
+81-3-3344-1701 (Office hours: 10:00-18:00 JST, weekday only )

Note: April 29, May 3, 4 and 5 are Japanese national holidays. We are really
sorry, but we cannot reply to any telephone/Email inquiry during this period.