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 SPF administers projects through four special funds: the Sasakawa Pacific Island Nations Fund, the Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund, the Sasakawa Central Europe Fund, and the Sasakawa Pan Asia Fund. Unlike the regular projects, which focus on individual problem areas, the special funds feature a regional approach. Each of the special funds has its own program, aimed at contributing to the solution of problems specific to the region in question in collaboration with the local nonprofit sector. SPF also supports the activities of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation U.S.A. (SPF-USA, based in Washington, D.C.) and provides logistic support to the Tokyo offices of such international foundations as Sasakawa African Association, the Fondation Franco-Japonaise Sasakawa, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, and the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation.
The Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund The Sasakawa Central Europe Fund The Sasakawa Pan Asia Fund
 The world contains over 190 nations and hundreds of ethnic groups, as well as a number of cultures and civilizations with a religious background. SPF believes that mutual recognition of difference is the basis of human peace and prosperity. In this process of mutual recognition, the first step is mutual understanding of how we differ. Next, we have to identify a "global minimum," that is, a consensus to distinguish two kinds of differences: differences that we can manage to reach agreement on and differences that are better left alone. We cannot understand others if we simply insist on the points that we cannot concede. Despite the so-called information society, efforts of this kind remain inadequate. For this reason SPF is engaged in activities directed toward the coexistence of pluralistic values, focusing on the following three areas:
 The Japan-China Friendship Fund, established in December 1989, seeks to deepen the ties between Japan and China cultivated over a long history of interaction and encourage peace and development in both countries. Guided by the basic policy principle "from friendship to cooperation," the Fund aims to build twenty-first-century relations characterized by the development of a truly mature relationship and cooperation between the two countries and the dissemination of information to the world from a position of parity. At present a variety of projects in such areas as human resource development, personal and cultural exchange, surveys and research, and the convening of conferences are being undertaken in line with the following four guidelines:
 The Sasakawa Central Europe Fund, established in March 1991, was designed to encourage democratization and support a smooth transition to a market economy in Central European countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) subjected to upheaval in the wake of the cold war. Ten years after its establishment the Fund undertook a comprehensive review of its activities and amended its guidelines in order to respond to the changed needs of Central European countries following a decade of political and economic transition. Since fiscal 2001 the Fund, the only one of its kind in Japan, has been implementing projects in such fields as personal exchange and transfer of experience between the target countries and Japan in line with the following three guidelines:
 The Sasakawa Pan Asia Fund was originally established in April 1992 to support intiatives targeting four countries: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam. To meat increasing request for assistance, however, it was renamed as The Sasakawa Pan Asia Fund (SPAF) and began to expand its parameters to include other states Asia in fiscal 2002. At present the Fund is supporting training and forums for the development of journalists, research on international economic systems and structural reform to prevent a recurrence of the recent Asian economic crisis, development of the next generation of leaders, and other activities in line with the following three guidelines:
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