The JAPAN PRIZE Award Winners Are Announced!

The JAPAN PRIZE, founded in 1965 by NHK, is a contest where quality audiovisual works with educational value gather from around the world. This year, we received 313 entries from 61 countries and regions. Selected through fair judgment, prize winners were announced at the Awards Ceremony on October 27th.
At the JAPAN PRIZE CrossMedia Forum, participants experienced the latest educational contents and lively exchanges of views.

CrossMedia Forum

Meet the Experts (panel discussions by frontline media professionals)

“Engaging” and “Transmedia”: The Ideal Model For Children’s Educational Audiovisual Contents (10/23 18:00-)
What Can Interactive Contents Do For Disasters and Social Problems?
Focusing On Games, Websites And Other Interactive Contents (10/25 18:00-)

Screening & Presentation of Shortlisted Entries in the Audiovisual Division

Schedule & Summary detail

With discussions focusing on the following topics:

Differences Make the World More Interesting (10/22)
Young Children are Great Explorers of the World (10/23)
Children as Citizens (10/24)
What’s the Best Platform? (10/24)
Alternative Perspectives on Social Issues (10/25)
Messages Conveyed by Disasters (10/26)
Power of Art (10/26)

Presentations by TV Proposal Finalists
(Final Selection of the TV Proposal Division)

Excursion (NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, Asakusa, etc.)

Special Screening by NHK Great East Japan Earthquake Project


2011.11.22 Details of winning works and runners-up are available now.
2011.10.27 The JAPAN PRIZE Award Winners Are Announced!
The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 15 has been released.
2011.10.26 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 14 has been released.
2011.10.25 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 13 has been released.
2011.10.24 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 12 has been released.
2011.10.23 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 11 has been released.
2011.10.22 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 10 has been released.
2011.10.21 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 9 has been released.
2011.10.20 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 8 has been released.
2011.9.29 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 7 has been released.
2011.9.29 The Schedule of CrossMedia Forum is updated!
2011.9.16 CrossMedia Forum Tentative Schedule is Announced!
2011.9.6 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 6 has been released.
2011.9.1 The numbers of entries and entering organizations have been changed due to doubling of entries and change in entering organization. Please see the revised Newsletter Issue 5.
2011.9.1 Results of the preliminary selection announced!
2011.9.1 Research report Trends in World Educational Media Based on Entries to the JAPAN PRIZE since 2000 is available online.
2011.8.8 See the brand new plaque awarded to the winner of the Best Work in Innovative Media Category. (Scroll to "Awards" section.)
2011.8.1 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 5 has been released.
2011.7.27 Entry list is available now.
2011.7.11 Applications for the CrossMedia Forum are now available along with the report from the last year’s Forum.
2011.7.1 Entries are closed.
2011.6.20 Profile of the poster designer is available now.
2011.6.20 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 4 has been released.
2011.6.1 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 3 has been released.
2011.5.10 JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Poster Released!
2011.5.10 Please confirm the changes made this year.
2011.5.2 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 2 has been released.
2011.4.1 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 Newsletter Issue 1 has been released.
2011.4.1 The JAPAN PRIZE 2011 has started accepting entries.
The deadline is June 30.

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