Newsletter No. 24

The University of Tokyo President Selection Committee Elects Executive Vice President Teruo Fujii as its Next President

Dr. Fujii will succeed President Makoto Gonokami, whose six-year term will end on March 31, 2021. Dr. Fujii will assume ...

Applications Now Being Accepted for the 2021 FUTI Scholarship Programs

FUTI has recently begun accepting scholarship applications for 2021. Information is available at friendsofutokyo.org/scholarships-grants. The scholarships are offered to qualified ...

2020-2021 Campaign Starts

Dear Supporter of Friends of UTokyo (FUTI), I hope this message finds you well in spite of the new coronavirus ...

Messages from Scholarship Students

Tomohito Okuda Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship (2020) MIT Sloan School of ManagementMBA Candidate 2022Harvard University Kennedy SchoolMPA/ID Candidate 2022 Despite ...

FUTI Scholarship Programs in 2020

The year 2020 has seen the entire world turned upside down due to Covid-19, and FUTI’s Scholarship activities have not ...

A Report on the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship Online Get-Together

Through an idea proposed by President Iwao Ojima and Shohei Koide, FUTI Scholarship Committee member, a get-together meeting with Ito ...

FUTI Online Dialogue Series – 1: “Learning from Covid19: New York and Tokyo”

On July 29 Friends of UTokyo (FUTI) presented an online dialogue between Prof. Peter J. Macotullio (Director, Institute for Sustainable ...

Online Dialogue with Ms. Akiko Sakaedani, on Her Recent Book: “Do You Hear the Sound of Hope?: Starting a Children’s Radio Program in Rwanda”

On September 12, Satsuki-kai America and Friends of UTokyo (FUTI) hosted an online dialogue with Ms. Akiko Sakaedani, formerly with ...

FUTI Appoints Board of Directors, Advisory Committee Members, and Scholarship Committee Members

At the Board meeting held on September 26, 2020, the Friends of UTokyo’s Board approved the following appointments. The terms ...