How to Apply for
RASA’s Financial Assistance 2017
1. Aim: To assist Asian students studying in Japan
to live and study more comfortably for them to contribute to development of
their home countries.
2. Qualifications: The applicant must be an Asian student of a
university / college or a similar educational institution, satisfying one of
the following conditions:
i) An applicant is thirty years old
or older as of April 1, 2017;
ii) A “kenkyu-sei (research student)”
or “bekka-sei (student in a special course)”;
iii) A refugee or asylum seeker.
3. Number of awardees: To be determined (8 people in FY2016).
4. Amount of assistance: 100,000 yen (lump sum; once for all;
handed over at an awarding ceremony).
5. How to apply: The following two items are to be sent to
RASA’s address indicated below by May 10, 2017 (Need not reach the address on
the date. The applicant has to drop the application by the date.)
i) Completed application
form
ii) Student Registration Certificate issued
by the school (or a good substitute)
RASA’s address: RASA’s Financial
Assistance, c/o Mr. Yamagata, 5-474-1-201 Makuhari-cho, Hanamigawa-ku,
Chiba-shi 262-0032.
6. Application form: English
version Japanese
version
7. Awarding the Assistance: Applicants who are
selected for awarding assistance will be informed by e-mail or telephone. The
completion of selection will be notified at this RASA’s
web site. Those, who are not informed by RASA secretariat after the
announcement of completion of selection, shall kindly understand that they are
not selected. The financial assistance will be awarded at the Awarding Ceremony
which will take place in July 2017.
8.
Members of Selection Committee:
FUKUOKA
Masato (Executive Member, San’ichi Kai/ President, Kinseido)
KOMATSU
Ryuji (Professor Emeritus, Keio University)
SHIRATO
Hiroshi (Professor, Matsumoto University/ Founding Representative of RASA)
TAKAHASHI
Yuri (RASA / Yokogawa Electric Corporation)
TAKEDA
Mariko (RASA/ Professor, Tohoku University of Community Service and Science)
YAMAGATA
Tatsufumi (Representative of RASA / Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO)
9.
Further Inquiry: Please write to the Representative of RASA, Mr.
Tatsufumi Yamagata by e-mail (yamagata@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp).
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