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PART II Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 10. Internationalization of Education, Culture, and Sports
Section 3. International Exchange and Cooperation in Education, Culture, and Sports
6. Cooperation with Developing Countries


In recent years Japan has received an increasing number of requests from developing countries for assistance with "hardware" in the form of facilities and equipment and "software" in the area of human-resource development. The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture has long accepted foreign students as part of its cooperation in human-resource development in developing countries. Other activities in this area include participation and cooperation in UNESCO-related programs, discussed above.

The Ministry also encourages interactive cooperation and coordination by universities and other institutions in Japan. To provide a systematic and sustained response to increasing requests from developing countries for cooperation in such areas as human-resource development, the Ministry is promoting independent international cooperation efforts through such measures as the establishment of the Interuniversity Committee for Development Assistance. Research courses and other programs relating to international development assistance have been established at Saitama University, the University of Tokyo, Yokohama National University, Nagoya University, Kobe University, and Hiroshima University to conduct research in the training and reeducation of specialists in advanced fields to enable them to contribute to progress in developing countries. To assist the training of relevant personnel in local public and private universities, the Ministry also provides subsidies for programs implemented by the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development (FASID), including joint development assistance lectures for postgraduate students, and a program involving overseas surveys concerning the training of development assistance personnel.

In addition, the Ministry cooperates actively in technical cooperation schemes, grant-type financial cooperation projects, and other activities implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and JICA. For example, it dispatches experts (685 in fiscal 1993) and accepts foreign trainees (569 in fiscal 1993) with the cooperation of national universities and other institutions in such fields as medicine, engineering, agriculture, and education.


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