FUTI Summer Scholarship
FUTI’s Summer Scholarship Award (a.k.a. the “FUTI Global Leadership Award”) Program has been established to encourage students of the University of Tokyo (abbreviated as UTokyo) and U.S. universities to acquire experiences that will help them grow into global leaders in their chosen fields.
In making an award decision, we evaluate an applicant’s intellectual capacity, his/her communication skills, and extracurricular achievements. FUTI regards strong leadership in the curricular or extracurricular activities as important as the academic performance.
An essay written in English is your opportunity to demonstrate your ability to express ideas in your own words. State clearly your career objectives and contributions you aspire to make. Explain how the proposed summer program would help you achieve your goals.
From a recommendation letter, we wish to assess your academic standing among your peers and infer your personality and character.
It is hoped that our awardees will contribute to the exchange of new ideas and the development of genuine understanding between Japan and the rest of the world. We seek to identify students who demonstrate leadership potential.
Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship
What are described above regarding the FUTI Summer Scholarship also apply for the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship. But also refer to [Selection Criteria for the Scholarship] on the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI page.
FUTI Summer Scholarship
We are aware that UTokyo’s Exchange Program now allows a UTokyo student to apply for as many as three summer programs. FUTI will respond to such applications accordingly, but our application system is a web-based online system, so the procedure is different from UTokyo’s. An applicant must submit an application to each category and each program even within the same category. For instance, you may wish to apply for an IARU-GSP at Yale (Category A), an English Language Course at UC Berkeley (Category B), and another summer program in the U.S. that you have found by yourself (Category C). Indicate which program is your first choice, second choice, and third choice, by completing the relevant field in FUTI’s online application system. Needless to say, you must be selected by the summer program in order to receive a FUTI award.
Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship
In case you apply for this scholarship before a decision is made on the host university and its department/course, you can indicate your top three candidates and select their priorities on the FUTI online application form. A typical response from FUTI may be: “The scholarship will be granted if you are admitted to any one of the three candidates” or “The scholarship will be granted only if you are admitted to the first choice candidate.”
A secondary or even tertiary recommendation letter (for example, from another professor, the supervisor or coach of your extracurricular activity) is welcome.
Most applicants submit one recommendation letter because quality matters more over quantity. However, please feel free to submit more than one recommendation letter. The online application form accepts up to two reference and recommendation letters, but please submit additional recommendation letter(s) as follows:
- Notify FUTI by sending a message through this form that you have additional recommendation letter(s) with the information of your reference(s) equivalent to what is required in the online application form.
- Request your reference(s) to send the additional recommendation letter(s) directly to FUTI through recommend [at] friendsofutokyo.org by the deadline.
Approximately 10 days after you have taken a TOEFLI iBT test, you will receive an email, letting you know when your scores will be available. You can log in to your TOEFL iBT account on theTOEFL® Registration website and click “View Scores” on your home page to see your scores. See for details: http://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/scores/get (or http://www.ets.org/jp/toefl/ibt/scores/get/ in Japanese)
If you have a TOEIC or IELTS score already, you may submit it in lieu of a TOEFL, but Yale or UC Berkeley may not accept TOEIC for their IARU-GSP programs.
FUTIが小切手を使う理由
日本では銀行振込が一般的ですが、FUTIとしては、①米国から日本の銀行に振り込む手続きが面倒。②安全のためには受給者の銀行口座情報を持ちたくない。③小切手は送金事故が起きにくい。などの理由で小切手でお支払いをしています。 日本の小切手は主として企業間で使用され、種別も書式も米国の小切手とは異なります。FUTIは米国の小切手で米国ドルでお支払いしますので、ここではそのご説明をします。 米国では小切手は個人にも広く使用される支払い手段です。例えば、会費納入や通信販売でも使われます。クレジットカードは日本では否応なしに銀行口座から自動的に引き落とされますが、米国では（引き落としモードも普及していますが）請求書が送られて来て、その全額または一部の金額（残額は文字通りクレジット＝借金になり金利が付く）を小切手でクレジットカード会社に郵送する昔からの方法が健在です。FUTIの小切手を使う方法
FUTIの小切手を換金または支払手段に使用する方法は、その場所が日本でも米国でもほとんど同じです。但し日本でFUTIの小切手を換金する場合には、外国為替交換や外国送金を含む手数料が発生します。日本の銀行によっては米ドルの口座を開設することができ、そこに入金すれば＄→￥→＄の為替交換手数料が節約できます。米国で銀行に口座を開設して換金すれば手数料は原則不要です。これらは各銀行のルールがあるので、銀行にご相談下さい。小切手に記載された日付から6か月以内に換金する必要がありますが、失効した場合には再発行可能です。 FUTIの小切手を見て頂くと、日付の次に”Pay to the Order of”の行に受取人の名前が書いてあります。奨学金受給者のお名前があるはずですが、留学先の大学納付金に対して奨学金を支給させて頂く場合には、大学の支払先が記入されています。ここに記載された受取人以外の人には価値のない紙切です。逆に受取人本人であることの身分証明が求められることがあります。送金額がアラビア数字と英語で記載されています。左下に”For”の行があります。「何のための金額か」を説明しメモする行ですから支払には無関係です。小切手によっては”For”の代わりに”Memo”と書いてあるものもあります。 小切手の裏面の片隅に”Endorse Here”と書かれた「裏書き」用のスペースがあります。ここに受取人が署名して換金します。但し理論的には、受取人の署名がある小切手を拾った第三者が換金することが出来ます。そのリスクを避けるには、①換金の最後の瞬間に署名する。または②”Endorse Here”のスペースに”For Deposit Only”と書いた後に署名します。 拒否される場合があり一般にはお勧め出来ませんが、大学などの第三者が了承すれば、受取りの権利を第三者に譲ることもできます。その場合は”Endorse Here”のスペースに”Pay to the Order of XXXX”と新受取人を記入して署名すると、新受取人宛ての小切手と同じことになります。その小切手を受け取った新受取人がその下に署名して換金します。但しこういう使い回しの小切手(Transferred Check)は受け取らない個人や団体は珍しくありません。 理論的には口座の無い銀行でも換金できる仕組みですが、実際には口座が無いとスムースには行きません。同様に、裏書した小切手を銀行に郵送しても理論的にはよいはずですが、実際には、特に日本では、窓口に出向かないと換金できないでしょう。裏書の無い小切手を持ってご自分の口座がある銀行（日本では可能なら外国為替に慣れた店だと早い）の窓口に出向き、ご自分の口座に振り込むように依頼して下さい。ほとんどの銀行では、特に日本では、小切手に基づいてFUTIの口座からの送金依頼を米国に送り、入金を確認してからでないと口座に入れてくれません。通常2-3日、もしかすると数日掛かる場合があります。
Takeshi Komoto （河本 雄）serves as Minister at the Japanese Embassy in the United States of America since June 2018. His portfolio covers policy areas including economy, trade, industry and energy.
Yuichiro Kuwama, M.D. (桑間雄一郎) has been Medical Director at the Japanese Medical Practice Division of Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York since 2000. Dr. Kuwama serves as one of the primary care physicians for the Japanese community in the greater New York Metropolitan Area. He also engages in medical education activities by teaching medical students at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and doctors-in-training at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. He is currently an associate professor of medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Koichi Hamada (濱田宏一) is the 
Sumiko Ito (伊藤澄子)
Shigenori (Shig) Matsushita (松下重悳): Upon graduating from the Department of Electrical Engineering (with Major in Communications) of UTokyo in March 1959, he joined Toshiba Corporation in April 1959 where he designed basic transistor circuits for computers. He was a chief design engineer for a patch-board programmed computer and a magnetic drum internal-program computer. In 1962 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and studied at the University of Illinois, where he worked as an assistant to develop a pattern recognition computer, ILLIAC III, in the Digital Computer Laboratory, and received his MS degree in August 1963.
Nobuko Sakurai (桜井信子) graduated from the University of Tokyo (French Studies), and spent one year in Paris as a student. After working at Air France in Tokyo for six years, she was employed at the 
Hisashi Kobayashi （小林久志） is a 
Dr. Masaaki Yamada (山田雅章) is a Distinguished Laboratory Research Fellow at 
Junji Masuda （桝田淳二）has been a partner of 
Hiroshi Komiyama (小宮山宏) became Chairman of the Institute of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. and President Emeritus at the University of Tokyo in April 2009, after completing a four-year presidency at the University of Tokyo. He was appointed the 28th president of the University of Tokyo in April 2005, after having served as a vice-president and executive vice-president for a year each, respectively. Prior to that he was Dean of the School of Engineering from April 2000 till March 2002. Dr. Komiyama received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees, all in chemical engineering, from the University of Tokyo in 1967, 1969, and 1972, respectively. From 1973 to 1974, he was a post doctoral fellow at the University of California at Davis. He became a full professor in the Department of Chemical System Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1988. Dr. Komiyama specializes in chemical engineering, advanced materials engineering, and global environment engineering. His research work and papers have received awards three times from the Society of Chemical Engineers of Japan. In addition to his positions at Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. and the University of Tokyo, he serves as an adviser to the Japanese Government, the media, and several non-profit organizations.
Dr. Tai Hasegawa is the president of the Henry Taube Institute, a non-profit organization founded in Palo Alto in honor of his mentor (1983 Nobel laureate). Hasegawa-san obtained his BS, MS and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the U. of Tokyo, and did his research at the Institute of Physical Science, the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, until joining the Chemistry Department of Stanford University. He got a tenured research professorship at the Institute of Molecular Medical Sciences, former Biochemistry division of the Linus Pauling Institute (Dr. Pauling is the only person so far to win two unshared Nobel Prizes, 1954 and 1962) before establishing the Henry Taube Institute. He likes to play various instruments including the violin, the viola, and the piano, and is an active member of Palo Alto Philharmonic and Choral Cosmo. He is the president of the Stanford Silicon Valley Akamon-kai, an alumni group of the U. of Tokyo for Stanford and Silicon Valley area members. He is also the president of the Silicon Valley Japan Association.
Takatoshi Ito, Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University, has taught extensively both in the United States and Japan since finishing his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 1979. He taught at the University of Minnesota (1979-1988), Hitotsubashi University (1988-2002), and the University of Tokyo (2004-2014) before assuming his current position in 2015. He held visiting professor positions at Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia Business School, and the University of Malaya. He has held distinguished academic and research appointments such as President of the Japanese Economic Association in 2004; Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1992; and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1985. Ito served as Senior Advisor in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund and as Deputy Vice Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Japan, and was a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. He is the author of many books, including The Japanese Economy, and more than 60 refereed journal papers. He frequently contributes op-ed columns to the Financial Times. In June 2011, the Government of Japan awarded him with the National Medal with Purple Ribbon in for his excellent academic achievement.
Shunichiro Kishi