19 recipients selected for Daiwa Foundation Tohoku Scholarships (in partnership with the British Council) in 2011

19 recipients have been selected for Daiwa Foundation Tohoku Scholarships, with awards so far totalling £133,000. The Daiwa Foundation established its Tohoku Scholarships in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake, in collaboration with British Council Japan, for students from the Tohoku region of Japan wishing to study in the UK. The total scholarship fund available is £250,000, and the scholarships will run until this fund is exhausted.

Together with British Ambassador David Warren, Daiwa Foundation Vice Chairman Masahiro Dozen, and British Council Director Jeff Streeter, 10 of this year’s scholarship recipients visited the Yushima Tenjin Shrine in Tokyo on 25 October 2011. The shrine is famous as a place where students traditionally pray for success in their studies.

Ambassador Warren had the following words of encouragement for the students: “I am very happy to be able to join you today at the Yushima Tenjin shrine, famous for its god of learning, to pray for the success of your studies in the UK. The people of Britain were shocked and deeply saddened by the Great East Japan Earthquake. At this difficult time, many British people are eager to help Japan and to strengthen ties between our two countries. The Daiwa Foundation Tohoku Scholarships, in collaboration with the British Council, are one form that this assistance is taking. I very much hope that you will have a wonderful time studying in the UK and that your studies will prove fruitful. As the representative of the UK in Japan, I wish you all every success.”