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Japan, cross-ministry public calls

e-Rad is Japan's cross-ministry portal for competitive research funding.

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Open calls

open and forthcoming

Published budget

summed across topics

Grants expected

not published for this programme

Closing within 30 days

move now or wait for the next round

What this programme is

e-Rad is Japan's cross-ministry portal for competitive research funding. The calls beneath it come from different ministries and agencies, are published in Japanese, and are generally aimed at researchers affiliated with a Japanese institution.

All 5 of the calls open under it now accept a single applicant, so there is no consortium to assemble.

The next cut-off is 23 Oct 2026.

When it closes

5 months carry a cut-off. Each links to every call closing that month, across all programmes.

October 202624 cut-offs November 202635 cut-offs December 20263 cut-offs March 20271 cut-off March 20281 cut-off

¥10.0B

Median grant

No funding rate is published for these calls, so the co-financing share is unknown until you read the conditions.

Need a consortium

0 of 64 calls state that several organisations must apply together. Assembling one takes months, so it is the first gate to check.

¥10.0B

Largest grant on offer

F-4. 希少難治性疾患の克服に結びつく病態解明研究分野／若手研究開発代表者による希少難治性疾患の病態解明により見出した創薬標的の検証（病態解明・若手・Research Y1）

Where the money is

Most grants here are ¥10m and above, 95% of the 40 calls that publish a figure, and 38 go above ¥10M. The other 24 publish no per-grant figure, or publish in another currency.

Who may apply

8% of these calls accept a single applicant; 0 require a consortium, and 59 do not say.

Closing soonest

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The nine nearest cut-offs under this programme. Everything else is in the full list, where you can filter by deadline, applicant type and funding rate.

CallNext cut-offPer grant

Other funders in Asia-Pacific

Programme	Open calls	Published budget	Soonest cut-off
Australia, GrantConnect	181	,	19 Aug '26
Korea, national R&D	68	,	20 Aug '26
Australia, business grants and programmes	33	,	03 Sept '26

Figures are computed from what Japan, cross-ministry public calls itself publishes. A call appears here only while a cut-off is still ahead of it.

About Japan, cross-ministry public calls

Who can apply to Japan, cross-ministry public calls calls?

It is set per call, not per programme. 8% of these calls accept a single applicant; 0 require a consortium, and 59 do not say. Where the conditions state the requirement we quote the sentence they state it in; where they do not, we infer it from the type of action and mark it as inferred, and an inferred value never appears without that mark.

What does the budget figure mean?

It is the sum of what the funder published per call, in the funder's own currency, converted once at the European Central Bank rates this build holds. Calls that publish no budget contribute nothing rather than an estimate, so the total is a floor, not a guess.

How often does this page change?

The corpus is re-synced nightly and the site is rebuilt with it. Cut-offs and countdowns are recomputed at build time, so a call that closed since the last sync leaves this page rather than sitting here with a stale date.

Can I see only the calls I could win?

Yes, the fit check reads every call on this page against your organisation on the gates that decide admissibility, and it runs in your browser with no account. Calls that block you are shown with the condition that blocks them, because sometimes it is one you can change.

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