PART Recent Trends and Developments in Government Policies in Education, Science and Culture
Chapter 4 Improvement and Enrichment of Higher Education
5 Expansion of Student Aid Programs
Since 1943, the Japan Scholarship Foundation has provided loan
scholarships to outstanding students (including secondary school students) who
have difficulty in continuing their studies due to financial reasons. The total
expenditures of these loan programs amounted to 190,100 million yen in fiscal
1992, with the total number of scholarship loans reaching 453,000 students.
Besides the Japan Scholarship Foundation, local governments,
non-profit corporations and other bodies, numbering more than 3,800 in total,
are carrying out student aid programs, with further expansion expected.