Nikkei Scholars 日系留学生

About Us

ATTENTION, NIKKEIS FROM LATIN AMERICA! The Nippon Foundation (Nippon Zaidan) has been offering the “Nikkei Scholarship” since 2004, giving the scholars the chance to go to Japan to perfect their knowledge in any field of study through internships in companies, investigation centers, technical courses, or professional carreers in bachelor or post-graduate Japanese universities, with a period of up to 5 years.

With the 2008 Nikkei Scholars coming to Japan in March, the total number of scholars has gone over 30. Nikkei scholars from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru are studying hard in Japan to achieve their dreams with the Nippon Foundation Nikkei Scholarship.

By our own iniciative, the “Nippon Foundation Scholar’s Association” was formed with the support of our sponsors to do diverse volnteer activities in Japan. Currently we make visits to Lain American schools to encourage the students to study more on culture and the Japanese language. We participate in several events in conjunction with the local nikkei communities here in Japan such as Festa Junina, kid’s day, Christmas, etc. We support projects organized by NGOs that are dedicated to de development of these nikkei communities in Japan. We also visit Japanese students to encourage cultral exchanges of Latin America and Japan.

Objective
The objective of the group is to form between our members, people who are capable of becoming leaders in their own communities once finishing their scholarship in Japan. Moreover, we also want to encourage the strengthening of the local, regional and panamerican nikkei entities, maintaining alive the nikkei identity.