Finances 2025

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Funding Source The Nippon Foundation draws the funds needed to support its many projects from the pr...

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Honorary Chair Yohei Sasakawa Receives Honorary Doctorate From Gallaudet University

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/articles/2026/20260520-112491.html

The Nippon Foundation Honorary Chair Yohei Sasakawa was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by Gallau...

First Island State Ocean Summit to be Held in June

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/articles/2026/20260513-112208.html

The Nippon Foundation, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and UNESCO’s Intergovernment...

Scientists discover over 1,100 new marine species

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World’s 1st Simultaneous Monitoring and Support for Multiple Autonomous Vessels

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/articles/2026/20260327-112130.html

The Nippon Foundation launched the MEGURI2040 Fully Autonomous Ship Program in February 2020 with th...

Notice regarding New Year holidays

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The Nippon Foundation will be closed from 12:00 noon on Friday, December 26, 2025, to Sunday, Januar...

Email Newsletter [The Nippon Foundation News]

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The Nippon Foundation News is a monthly newsletter sent to current and former The Nippon Foundation ...

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Awareness Survey of 18-Year-Olds – Country and Society (6-Country Survey)

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/articles/2026/20260406-112075.html

The 78th installment of the Awareness Survey of 18-Year-Olds was carried out during February 2026, a...

Awareness Survey of 18-Year-Olds

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/culture/eighteen-survey

The Public Offices Election Act was revised in 2015 to lower Japan’s voting age to 18 from 20,...

Beppu Disability-Inclusive City Project

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The Beppu Disability-Inclusive City Project is being carried out in Beppu City, Oita Prefecture, for...

Iroha Nihon – Experience the Soul of Japan

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/culture/iroha-nihon

Iroha Nihon is a project aimed at tourists from overseas who are interested in Japanese culture, pro...

JACAFA: A Network for Central Asia and Japan

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/global/jacafa

In 1991, the dissolution of the USSR raised a new curtain on relations between the former Soviet rep...

Partnership with Valuable 500

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/global/the-valuable-500

Since The Nippon Foundation’s establishment in 1962, support for persons with disabilities in ...

The Nippon Foundation Scholars Association (TNFSA)

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/global/fellowsassociation

For the past 40 years, The Nippon Foundation has provided around 40 different scholarship programs, ...

Toward Stronger Mutual Understanding and Cooperation Between Japan and South Korea

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/global/arf

The Nippon Foundation established The Asia Research Fund in Seoul, South Korea, in 1995 to foster mu...