About Nominations
Nomination System
We would like to invite experst in academic institutions, prestigious arts and culture organizations, and news media from various countries and regions to submit their nominations for the Fukuoka Prize in order to extensively recruit candidates.
If you are eligible to submit nominations, please read the Nomination Guidelines before nominations. Once you enter the necessary information in the online form, or send the completed nomination form(s) by mail or e-mail to the Secretariat of the Fukuoka Prize Committee.
Timeline of Nomination
- Around July
- ・We invite nominations from nominators.
・We also accept additional recommendations all year around through the online nomination form from our website outside the invited nomination. - Late September
- Deadline for the submission of nomination.
- September - December
- Preliminary documents of the nominated candidates are prepared by the Secretariat.
- Late January - Early February
- Selection meetings for the Academic Prize and the Arts and Culture Prize are held.
- Early March
- The Fukuoka Prize Jury meeting is held.
→The prize winners are selected. (informal decision) - Late May - Early June
- The Fukuoka Prize Committee meeting is held.
→The prize winners are officially aknowledged. (official decision)
Address / Deadline
Please enter the necessary information in the online form, or send the completed nomination form(s) by mail or e-mail to the Secretariat of the Fukuoka Prize Committee.
- Deadline for nomination for Fukuoka Prize 2025:
- Monday, 30th September, 2024
- Please read the Nomination Guidelines,FAQs before nominations.
- Prizes shall be presented to individuals or organizations that have made outstanding achievements in their respective fields and are expected to make further contributions in the future. We also welcome your nominations for those from the younger generations.
To nominate by using the online form
Fukuoka Prize Online Nomination Form
To send the completed nomination form
Nomination forms are available for download in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF versions. Download Nomination form
- Address
- Secretariat of the Fukuoka Prize Committee
c/o International Affairs Dept., General Affairs & Planning Bureau, Fukuoka 810-8620 Japan
- f.prize[@]io.ocn.ne.jp
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Other points of attention
- Please fill in the attached nomination form in either English or Japanese.
- All the documents submitted to the committee will not be returned to the nominators.
- The committee will not respond to any inquiries during the selection process.
- As for the information on the nominees the committee shall keep its confidentiality.
- Nominators are requested to keep their nomination details confidential.