At 3:15 p.m. local time on April 12 (4:15 a.m. on April 13, Japan Time), Fumio Kishida, the Prime Minister of Japan, and Yuko Kishida, the spouse of the Prime Minister, who were visiting the State of North Carolina in the United States, held talks with Japanese students studying at the Nagoya University Global Campus at North Carolina State University for approximately 30 minutes. Here is an overview of the talks.
Prime Minister Kishida received a briefing from Naoshi Sugiyama, the President of Nagoya University, on the Nagoya University Global Campus at North Carolina State University.
Then, Prime Minister Kishida exchanged views with Japanese students studying at universities in the State of North Carolina.
At the beginning, Prime Minister Kishida talked about the goal of more than doubling the number of Japanese students studying abroad to 500,000 per year over the next 10 years through the promotion of the “Japan – Mobility and Internationalisation: Re – engaging and Accelerating Initiative for future generations”. He said that the Japanese government will expand projects that support the overseas expansion of Japanese universities and the conclusion of inter – university agreements to increase the number of exchange students. He also noted that the government and the private sector will work together to enhance financial support measures for students studying abroad.
Prime Minister Kishida and Mrs. Kishida listened to the study abroad experiences shared by the participating Japanese students.
The government will consider measures to drastically expand the “Tobitate! Japan Representative Program”, which has sent more than 10,000 Japanese students overseas so far. In addition, the government will consider measures to drastically expand the JASSO’s overseas study support program by setting up a “special quota” to drive growth fields, especially by substantially expanding scholarships for students studying in top – class graduate schools and doctoral programs in the sciences in the United States, referring to top – level scholarships in the private sector. Moreover, these directions will be incorporated into the basic policy for economic and fiscal management and reform and be materialized in the budget compilation process.
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