Newsletters
The SPF Newsletter is a quarterly (with the exception of FY1998) publication which features project reports and other articles highlighting the efforts of SPF.
Copies of the Newsletter are available free from SPF. If you would like to receive a copy or would like to be on our mailing list, please E-mail spfpr@spf.or.jp.
Listed below are the newsletters available on-line:
FY2003
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 4, FY2003 (published January, 2004) (PDF 287.4KB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Ryoichi Sasakawa
who makes us question what the Japanese should be
- Project Report:
- Helping people forge their own future
- Field Report:
- Toward enhancing capacity and improving productivity
- World Report:
- On the front line of grant making
- Foundation Updates:
- President and vice-president of GFSIS visit Japan
Seminar comparing French and Japanese foreign policy vis-a-vis allies over the Iraq wa
Third study visits of PLA officers to Japan
Percentage Philanthoropy Workshop
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 3, FY2003 (published January, 2004) (PDF 395.1KB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Gains from the “lost decade”
- Foundation Updates:
- The private nonprofit sector and accountability
The widening ring of confidence building in Central Asia and the Caucasus
- Project Report:
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- Two initiatives aimed at mutual understanding in a world riven by conflict
- Viewpoint:
- Spinning the big picture into silk realities
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 2, FY2003 (published October, 2003) (PDF 2.7MB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Rethinking corporate governance in Japan
- Foundation Updates:
- Exchange between small business in Japan and Central Europe
Vietnaemese delegation invited to Japan
- Special Report:
- Asia as Subject
- Viewpoint:
- Problems of the ambiguous “asic Framework”
- FY2003 Program Agenda
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 1, FY2003 (published July, 2003) (PDF 278.5KB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Japan is well suited to send a message on world peace
- Special reports:
- Bioethics and intellectual property rights
- Reports from the field:
- “Percentage laws” and the Sasakawa Central Europe Fund
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