日本財団図書館（電子図書館）　SYLEF The First Twenty Years

The opening session of an Asia/Pacific Regional forum at Chiang Mai University, in Thailand, in October 2003.

SYLFF fellows who were invited to participate in the Mainichi-SYLFF Comparative Family Study Group in Tokyo in August 1994.

From left: John Rotenstein, Australian Graduate School of Management; Agnes Thira Kariuki, University of Nairobi; Arturo Ponce-Guadian, El Colegio de México; Anne Cohen Kiel, University of Oslo; and Sanmuga (Shan) Raja Paramasivam, University of Malaya. The Mainichi Newspaper, with funding from the Foundation, convened the study group to commemorate the United Nations' Year of the Family.

"The Young Leaders Forum on the Challenges of the 21st Century," held on August 27, 1993, in Beijing, was SYLFF's first international forum. In attendance were more than 100 SYLFF fellows and a similar number of administrators from the then 50 SYLFF-endowed institutions in 35 nations. The Sasakawa Peace Foundation administered SYLFF until 1997, when administrative responsibility passed to the newly established Global Foundation for Research and Scholarship-since renamed The Tokyo Foundation.

Pictured is the opening ceremony for the 1993 Beijing forum.