
A Future for Youth
The increasing complexity and diversity of household and family environments can lead to many problems in schools, including bullying, truancy, and classroom disruption.
Resolving these problems should not be solely the responsibility of families and schools; communities and society need to work together to support children.
We work toward a society in which the children and young people of the next generation have hope for the future and pursue their own goals.
Projects
The Nippon Foundation Dream Scholarship

The Nippon Foundation launched The Nippon Foundation Dream Scholarship program in April 2016. Scholarships are given to young people who for whatever reason have been unable to live with their biological parents and grew up in a “social child care” facility.

There are roughly 45,000 children in Japan who, for whatever reason, cannot be raised by their biological parents. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) declares that all children “should grow up in a family environment.
ROCKET Project for Talented Children

The Nippon Foundation and the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) jointly launched the ROCKET (Room Of Children with Kokorozashi and Extraordinary Talents) Project in December 2014 to identify talented children and provide them with ongoing support, with the aim of cultivating innovative leaders for Japan’s future.

Japan’s rate of child poverty is above the OECD average. Overall, the rate has been rising since the 1980’s, and today one in seven children lives in poverty.
The Nippon Foundation Kids Support Project

Thinking, supporting, and rearing together.
These are the goals of The Nippon Foundation’s Kids Support Project.
Contact
The Nippon Foundation
cc@ps.nippon-foundation.or.jp