Response to August 2026 Heavy Rains in Chiba and Request for Donations

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/articles/2026/20260817-113547.html

The Nippon Foundation would like to extend its deepest condolences to all who have been affected by ...

Response to July 28 Kumamoto Earthquake and Request for Donations

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/articles/2026/20260731-113483.html

The Nippon Foundation would like to extend its deepest condolences to all who have been affected by ...

Request for Donations to ‘Special Fund for Colombia Earthquake Emergency Relief’

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/articles/2026/20260812-113526.html

The Nippon Foundation would like to extend its deepest condolences to all who have been affected by ...

Notice Regarding a Temporary Payment System Issue Affecting Donations

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/articles/2026/20260805-113499.html

We sincerely thank everyone for their generous donations to The Nippon Foundation’s Special Fu...

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,...

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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This newsletter is being sent to current and former The Nippon Foundation fellows, and persons who h...

The Nippon Foundation Zero Emission Ships Project

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/ocean/zeroemission2050

Conducting development and demonstration tests of ships fueled by hydrogen (zero emission vessels) w...

Offshore Wind Farm Support Vessel Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cell Consortium

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/ocean/zeroemission2050/consortium01

This consortium is developing a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered crew transfer vessel (CTV) that can be us...

The Future of Our Ocean

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

The ocean is essential to human life.Today, however, the world’s seas and oceans face a variet...

True Colors Festival

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/security/inclusive_society/festival_of_disabled_artists

The True Colors Festival began as a festival of artists with disabilities featuring a wide range of ...

UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/security/inclusive_society/un_wcdrr

In 2012, The Nippon Foundation began cooperating with groups representing persons with disabilities ...

Disability Inclusive Financing

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/security/inclusive_society/financing

This initiative provides small-scale financing at preferential interest rates to businesses that hel...

Organization

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/who/about/

In carrying out activities over a broad range of areas,The Nippon Foundation supports over 20 differ...

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Bilingual Deaf School Opens in Indonesia

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/security/indonesia-deaf-school

This project aims to guarantee educational access for deaf children in Indonesia by opening a biling...

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...

Improving the Quality of Education for Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam

https://en.nippon-foundation.or.jp/what/projects/security/vn-inclusive-edu

Vietnam is home to more than 50 ethnic minorities, and many of these people live in villages in the ...

Enhancing Communities

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

Many types of people live in our communities: young and old, and persons with disabilities or illnes...

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 ...