Reporter 8/11/01: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

Up to eight Daiwa Scholarships, tenable in Japan for twenty months starting in September 2002 and finishing at the end of April 2004, will be awarded in April 2002 by the Trustees of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.

Aims

The purpose of the Scholarships is to enable young UK graduates from any academic or professional background to acquire a lasting knowledge of Japan and Japanese culture, including a knowledge of spoken and written Japanese. In providing this opportunity, it is hoped that Daiwa Scholars will subsequently maintain their links with the Foundation through the Daiwa Scholars' Alumni Association and that they may contribute to Anglo-Japanese understanding through their chosen career paths.

Eligibility

(a)	Candidates must be British citizens who are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or have been wholly or mainly educated there.
(b)	They must be aged between twenty (by 1 January 2001) and thirty-five.
(c)	They must have completed a good standard of first degree (or its equivalent in the performing and creative arts) at the latest by the summer of 2002. Candidates from any academic discipline will be welcome but those who have graduated in Japanese or are about to do so and those with an equivalent proficiency in Japanese may not apply though they may qualify for other assistance from the Foundation.
(d)	Candidates already engaged in research, a career or postgraduate training for their profession are welcome to apply.

Successful candidates will take up their Scholarships in September 2002. After a one-week orientation course in the United Kingdom in London in early September, Scholars will move to Japan for the rest of their Scholarship.

The first year will be spent learning Japanese at a language school in Tokyo, and will include a month's homestay with a Japanese family. In the first four months of the second year (September to December 2003) the Scholars will spend the morning at the language school in preparation for taking Level 2 of the Japan Foundation Japanese Language Proficiency Examination in early December. In the afternoons of these four months Scholars will undertake work placements arranged in consultation with the Foundation during the first year. In the final four months of the Scholarships (January to April 2004) Scholars will pursue their work placements full-time. The Scholarship will end on 30 April 2004.

Scholars will receive grants at a rate of not less than 3,000,000 yen a year for the duration of the Scholarship to cover accommodation and living costs and the Foundation will meet all tuition fees throughout the Scholarship.

Applications

Application forms can be downloaded from our website http://www.daiwa-foundation.org.uk/. If you are unable to download an application form, please request an application form in writing from The Director General, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Ref DS2002, 13-14 Cornwall Terrace, London, NW1 4QP (fax 020 7486 2914; e-mail: scholarships@daiwa-foundation.org.uk).

Application forms (original and two photocopies, each of which must have a photograph attached) must be returned by post at the latest by Monday 3 December 2001.

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