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The Nippon Foundation
The Nippon Foundation, established in 1962, is an independent, private foundation that operates on 3.3 percent of revenue from motorboat races held by local governments throughout Japan.
The prime objective of the Foundation is to aid humankind. In particular, it attempts to assist people that have been left behind by society. 1ts work is conducted with an eye to sustainability, the creation of a safe and peaceful world, and the support of the vulnerable in our global community.
The Nippon Foundation's support is organized under three general themes: International Cooperative Support, which focuses on creating opportunities in developing countries for the less fortunate; Domestic Welfare, which aims at building a Japanese society that is kinder to all people; and Maritime Affairs, a domestic and international area of concern.
Chairman: Yohei Sasakawa
President: Takeju Ogata
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Contributions from The Nippon Foundation and from the motorboat-racing industry funded the establishment of The Tokyo Foundation in 1997. A private, nonprofit, independent organization, the foundation promotes global exchange in support of policy research, human resource development, and information exchange.
Scholarship Division
The Tokyo Foundation's Scholarship Division administers fellowship programs for graduate-level study in the social sciences, in the humanities, in the performing arts, and in transportation- and maritime-related fields. In addition to supporting fellowship recipients to acquire specialized knowledge and pertinent experience, the division's fellowships and grants support the development of insight and skills to identify issues and discover inter-relationships among issues; create opportunities for collaboration; and encourage bold action on global issues that transcend geopolitical borders, culture, religion, and academic disciplines.
Chairman: Hideki Kato
International Advisory Committee, Scholarship Division
David Leyton-Brown
Executive Director, Ontario Council on Graduate Studies
Peter Scheid
Professor Emeritus, Ruhr-University Bochum
Muhammad K. Tadjudin
Chairperson, National Board for Accreditation of Higher Education, Indonesia
Tatsuya Tanami
Executive Director, The Nippon Foundation
Caroline A. Matano Yang
Former Chair, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
Yozo Yokota
Professor of Law, Chuo University
The tree's 20 hand-shaped leaves symbolize the SYLFF Program's first 20 years in the 20th-anniversary logo. The logo is a reminder that the more than 9,000 SYLFF fellows worldwide are helping hands to their local communities, to their nations, and to the global community. Its sylvan metaphor evokes the program's continuing growth. The anniversary logo will appear throughout 2007 on SYLFF materials and signage alongside the stylized globe of SYLFF's permanent logo.
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