The aim of this project is to provide opportunities for language training and experience-based language learning over a one-month period in Japan to students studying the Japanese language at regional universities in Northwest and Southwest China and in other regions that have little chance for exchange with Japan.

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The number of students of the Japanese language at Chinese universities has been rising rapidly, and the figure stands at 550,000 as of 2009. However, the core materials that are traditionally used to teach the language are largely knowledge-oriented, and so offer few opportunities for free and flexible thought and do little to promote creative study and personal growth in students. Thus, the materials are less than perfect for deepening understanding of the Japanese language. The Beijing Center for Japanese studies brought together the best minds of Japanese-language education in China and, with the cooperation of specialists in Japan, has been working to develop the first ever series of comprehensive teaching materials for Japanese-language majors at the university level. These materials will comprise a curriculum for intensive reading, listening comprehension, conversation, writing and a teachers' manual. The Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund provides support for the joint work conducted jointly by Japanese and Chinese specialists. Specifically, the fund covers costs arising from joint editorial/document review meetings attended by specialists from China and Japan (twice per year, once in China, once in Japan), guidance in training students provided by Japanese language teachers from regional universities, and costs for participation in events, in China and Japan, to mark publication of materials created through the project.

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In this project, researchers from Japan and Shanghai with experience in community regeneration and healthy urban development will use their experience to support health education for Chinese citizens. Working in agricultural communities in and around Kumamoto's sister city, Guilin, the researchers will primarily target citizens in a position to contribute to construction of a healthy community. It is hoped that through collaboration between China and Japan, the project will promote a citizen participation-type model for construction of healthy communities through construction of healthy communities, education of health volunteers, provision of new perspectives on health, and improvement of living habits.

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The aim of this project is to resolve the persistent shortage of information about Japan in China. As a means to give Chinese citizens opportunities to gain a comprehensive understanding of Japan, carefully selected books on contemporary Japan will be translated and published in the Chinese language.

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This project aims to build networks between young future leaders from Japan and China. To this end, young leaders in political parties and government are invited to Japan to attend symposia on themes of particular interest to both Japan and China, and take part in discussions with young Japanese politicians, administrative officials, researchers, and members of the press. Through these activities, the fund attempts to provide a platform for lateral discussion between persons involved in Chinese and Japanese politics.

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From 2007 to 2008, the Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund supported a project in which Chinese researchers drew up an overview of bilateral relations since the signing of the "Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China." The fruits of this project were published in the form of a three-volume work in the Chinese language, entitled 'Sino-Japanese Relations: 30 years'. The aim of the project this year is to draw up an overview of Sino-Japanese exchange between 1972 and 2012, which will then be presented to citizens of both countries.

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In Dec 2009, the Japan-China Friendship Fund entered its twentieth year. However, if the philosophy and activities of the fund are to become better known in China, it is essential that information about the fund is made available through widespread public relations activities. The aim of this project is, through the medium of the internet, to follow up on projects the fund has conducted to date, construct public access databases on past projects, and spread information about the activities of the fund throughout China.

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This project aims to deepen mutual understanding between young field officers from Japan and China who will become leaders in future years. Over the last ten years, this project has conducted reciprocal visits and training programs (visits to air, sea and land units, military education facilities, lectures on defense policy, courtesy calls on officials, study of culture and history) for field officers from China and Japan. Starting this year, this program will run for another five years.

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The aim of this program is to provide opportunities to writers and editors of popular magazines in China to collect data about contemporary politics, economics and society in Japan, with the end goal of providing Chinese citizens with accurate information about Japan.

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With the cooperation of the International Communication Office of the Communist Party of China-run 'People’s China Magazine Company', this project aims to deepen understanding of Japan by inviting the CCP Provincial International Communication Officers to Japan Office) from various Chinese prefectures and mid-level party members from autonomous regions of China.

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The foundation has since 2001 been holding 'Japan-China Young Historians Seminars' prior to intergovernmental collaboration on history research. Through this seminar, young historians from both countries have carried out collaborative research, jointly published results and broadcast information to the English speaking world. The aim of this project is to strengthen networks of researchers working on problems in perception of history. It achieves this through hosting the Japan-China Young Historians Seminar and promoting exchange between history researchers in Japan, China and the US, as well as between universities and research institutions in all three countries. Most participants in the project are aged between twenty and thirty years old.

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The aim of this project is to invite influential Chinese public bloggers to Japan and provide them with opportunities to broadcast information about Japan from their unique perspective, with the end goal of improving Japan's image among Chinese internet users.

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