Friends of UTokyo, Inc. gratefully acknowledge and appreciate the gifts from our donors which help to support the FUTI Global Leadership Awards and the other many activities to further the globalization and future development of The University of Tokyo in the U.S., Japan and in the world. FY 2012-13 total: 4 corporations†, 73 individuals; $131,946‡
Friends of UTokyo, Inc. gratefully acknowledge and appreciate the gifts from our donors which help to support the FUTI Global Leadership Awards and the other many activities to further the globalization and future development of The University of Tokyo in the U.S., Japan and in the world. FY 2011-12 total: 2 corporations‡, 77 individuals; $139,155
Friends of UTokyo, Inc. gratefully acknowledge and appreciate the gifts from our donors which help to support the FUTI Global Leadership Awards and the other many activities to further the globalization and future development of The University of Tokyo in the U.S., Japan and in the world. FY 2010-11 total: 2 corporations†, 45 individuals; $98,651‡
Friends of UTokyo, Inc. gratefully acknowledge and appreciate the gifts from our donors which help to support the FUTI Global Leadership Awards and the other many activities to further the globalization and future development of The University of Tokyo in the U.S., Japan and in the world. FY 2009-10 total: 1 corporation, 42 individuals; $115,138.69
At the Board Meeting held on May 9, 2016, FUTI Advisory Committee Members, Nobuko Sakurai and Fumiko Tamura were elected as Board Members. Ms. Sakurai will continue her duties as a member of Scholarship Review Committee. Working with the Treasurer (Dr. Kuwama), Dr. Tamura will focus on financial reporting, tax and regulatory matters.
The FUTI Award Selection Committee has selected six UTokyo students and eight U.S. students for this summer’s scholarship program. A list of these students is shown at the end of this article. The number of UTokyo award recipients declined significantly from nine in 2015 to four this year. This may be attributed primarily to the…
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With the Ito Foundation U.S.A. as the financial sponsor, this year marked the first year of the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship program. Because this is a new program for FUTI which supports University of Tokyo students/alumni to study in a U.S. university for one semester or more, we were initially not certain as to whether…
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We have made a request to several of our donors in FY 2015-2016 to write a few words to students and alumni. The messages to be presented in the Newsletter 15 and the upcoming 16 (to be issued in the fall of 2016) are from those who graciously accepted. We hope that their messages will…
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FUTI President, Prof. Masaaki Yamada gave a lecture titled “A Future Energy Source, Nuclear Fusion, and Study of Plasmas in the Universe” on March 11, 2016 at 6:30pm at the Nippon Club. Given the title, FUTI members and members of the alumni groups had anticipated a complex and difficult talk, but to our pleasant surprise…
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