Category: Newsletter 9

Please Support FUTI’s FY 2013-2014 Fundraising Campaign

Dear Friends of UTokyo: Year 2013 will soon come to an end. We hope that you are all well and enjoying your work. Although it may be difficult to project the world economy of the future, Japan has finally got out of the deflationary economy that has plagued the nation for many years. Abenomics, which…
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Excerpts of Reports by FUTI’s Scholarship Recipients in 2013

As reported in Newsletter No 7 and No 8, eight UTokyo students received the 2013 FUTI Global Leadership Award (FUTI-GLA). Two students  participated in the Global Summer Program (GSP) at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB),  one in the GSP  at Yale University, two in Yale’s English Language Institute (ELI), and one in Yale’s Summer School (YSS).  GSP or ELI/YSS…
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Donating Securities Such as Stocks in an Option

Some stocks have been soaring in their values recently, and you may be enjoying this development. If you are generous enough to consider donating some of your profits to a good cause of FUTI, such as scholarships for students, here are some tips on tax benefits you may receive by donating appreciated securities directly to…
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Engrave your name on the Yasuda Auditorium

To commemorate important occasions, such as wedding anniversary (silver, pearl, or gold), significant birthday (60th, 69th, 77th, 80th, 88th, 90th), university entrance, retirement, graduation, etc. To express your gratitude to your professor or to your parents To celebrate your child, a major reunion of your class, an anniversary sport event The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)…
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Donors’ messages: Haruo Kawahara, Hirokazu Miura, Masako Osako and Yasuhide Watanabe

We selected several people among those who gave generous donations to FUTI in FY 2012-2013, asking them to prepare a message.  The following four individuals (listed in the alphabetical order) graciously responded to our request.  We hope that their messages will strike your cord and encourage you to respond to our fifth annual fundraising campaign.…
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Blog Article: Meaning of Education: Enhancement of Capabilities or Help Catching Up

Shun Kishioka Foreword by Editor: In the last issue we quoted an article from the mail magazine of Dr. Shigenori Matsushita. In this issue, we have asked Mr. Shunichiro Kishioka to publish his very interesting article on education and learning from his blog “Survival Age (in Japanese)” http://sksknowledgetosurvive.blogspot.com/2013/11/blog-post_9.html Mr. Kishioka serves on the Advisory Committee…
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