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:
FY2005
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 4, FY2005 (published March, 2006) (PDF 1.1MB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Structural reform after Prime Minister Koizumi
The direction of political and economic change
- Reports from the Field:
- Exploring a comprehensive economic partnership between BIMST-EC and Japan
- Special Report:
- Sino-Japanese Understanding for a New Age
The Japan-China Young History Researchers Conference
- Foundation Updates:
- Understanding among Asian journalists
Financial, tax, and activity reporting for NPOs
Bioethics education and diverse social and cultural values
- SPF Publications
From the Editor's Desk
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 3, FY2005 (published January, 2006) (PDF 1.4MB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Toward improving Japan's energy self-sufficiency
The challenges of conserving energy and reducing dependence on oil
- President's Message
- Special Reports
- Okinawa as the springboard to Pacific island
- Project Report:
- Making Okinawa the base for a Japanese 'Pacific frontier diplomacy'
- Opinion:
- Islands are international
- Foundation Updates:
- Vietnamese delegation observes higher education in Japan
The Leaders, a new website
- Project Report:
- Peace building as a pillar of foreign policy and
the role of private nonprofit foundations Reports from the Field
Activities of Japan Mine Action Service
- Extension of Third Midterm Program Guidelines
From the Editor's Desk
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 2, FY2005 (published October, 2005) (PDF 1.3MB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Japan is still the richest, happiest country
No need to worry about either the economy or culture
- Special Report:
- India's Rush toward Economic Power Status
- Project Report:
- Toward stronger Japan-India relations
- Opinion :
- India's emergence as an economic power: The role of SPF
- Reports from the Field:
- Toward deeper Japan-China friendship from a private-sector stance
- Foundation Updates:
- Nonprofit sector legitimacy and accountability
Training seminar for program officers in grantmaking foundations
Intraregional disparities and geopolitical change in Central Asia and the South Caucasus
- FY2005 Program Agenda(Projects approved September, 2005)
SPF Publications
- SPF Newsletter Vol. 1, FY2005 (published July, 2005) (PDF 1.1MB)
- What's inside:
- Interview:
- Staying a step ahead of change
Postwar Iraq and Japan's humanitarian aid
- Reports from the field：
- East Timor tackles nation building
- Foundation Updates:
- Symposium on brain death and organ transplantation
Seminars on Japan's soft power
- Project Report:
- The future of global water
- FY2005 Program Agenda
SPF Publications
The SPF Annual Reports are posted in PDF format. In order to view the documents, you need the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in available free at the
Adobe site. There is no text-only version of the Annual Reports.
