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Each year, up to eight talented British graduates are awarded with Daiwa Scholarships. The scholarships are tenable in Japan for twenty months, providing UK graduates from any academic or professional background with a lasting knowledge of Japanese life, culture, and spoken and written Japanese. No previous experience of Japan or Japanese language is necessary.
It is hoped that the Daiwa Scholars will maintain their links with the Foundation through the Daiwa Scholars Alumni Association, and contribute to UK-Japan understanding through their chosen career paths. Since its establishment in 1991, the Daiwa Scholarships programme has funded over 70 Scholars from a wide range of backgrounds and skills, including science, engineering, architecture, law, music, theatre, medicine and art.
All Daiwa Scholars undertake intensive language study over five terms at a language school in Tokyo. Classes will begin in late September 2004, soon after the Scholars' arrival in Tokyo. Scholars will study Japanese full-time for one year and then part-time from September 2005 until December 2005 when they will sit for Level 2 of the Japan Foundation Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). Level 2 is the second most advanced stage in the JLPT and is a challenging but achievable objective.
During the break between terms in September 2005, all Scholars will undertake a four-week homestay with a Japanese family. The homestay offers Scholars the opportunity to improve their language skills and to experience a different aspect of Japanese life.
The work placement will begin on a part-time basis in September 2005 and then continue full-time from January until April 2006. Staff at the Foundation's Tokyo Office will consult with the Daiwa Scholars from January 2005 to start planning the work placement. A high standard of Japanese is essential to benefit from a successful work placement so Scholars assume their placements in the last 8 months of the scholarship when they have achieved the required level of fluency.
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation was set up as an independent charitable trust in 1988. Its aims are to enhance the UK's and Japan's understanding of each other's people and culture; to enable British and Japanese students and academics to further their education by travel; and to make grants available to individuals and organisations to promote links between the UK and Japan.
Candidates MUST be full British citizens who are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or who have been wholly or mainly educated there.
Candidates MUST be aged between 20 and 35 by 1 January 2004.
Candidates MUST be at least ONE of the following: graduates with a good degree in any subject except Japanese language final-year undergraduates who will complete their degree by summer 2004 and are expecting a good degree individuals with a record of outstanding achievement in their field.
Candidates from any academic discipline are welcome but those who have graduated in Japanese or are about to do so and those with a proficiency in Japanese beyond Japan Foundation Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Level 3 will NOT be considered. (If you are in this category and have a particular project in mind you may find our grants programme of interest.)
The Daiwa Scholarships 2004 application pack can be downloaded from www.dajf.org.uk. The deadline is Thursday 11 December 2003.
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Cambridge University Reporter, 14 November 2003
Copyright © 2003 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars
of the University of Cambridge.