2005年7月,以东京大学小岛毅为项目总负责人、60余所日本国立大学的134位知名中青年学者参加、日本文部科学省资助特定研究领域科研补助金11亿日元(折合人民币约7000万元)、预计历时5年(2005—2009年)的“东亚海域交流与日本传统文化的形成———以宁波为焦点开创跨学科研究” In July 2005, Toshihiro Kojima, chief of the project at Tokyo University, and 134 well-known young and middle-aged scholars from more than 60 Japanese national universities attended the ceremony. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology funded the research grant of 1.1 billion Japanese yen About 70000000 yuan), is expected to last five years (2005-2009 years) “East Asian sea exchange and the formation of Japanese traditional culture - with Ningbo as the focus to create interdisciplinary research”