2020 Migrants and Japanese Society | Migrants and Japanese Society

Program Information for previous years

Program Objectives
Comments by Selection Committee Chair
List of Grant Projects
Grant Framework

Program Objectives

The grant of the Special Subject "Migrants and Japanese Society" will be given to projects that study any of the five issues below and implement measures to address these issues (for example, building a mechanism or system to solve an issue or improve a situation) during the grant period.

(1) Creation of an environment for maximizing the skills and potential of foreign talent
(2) Minimizing gaps among foreign residents in their access to information
(3) Examination of human and other resources in support of the care and support systems for foreign residents
(4) Attracting skilled human resources from abroad
(5) Lessons from insights and experiences gained through Japanese companies’ overseas operations

Comments by Selection Committee Chair

The chairperson of the selection committee provides comments on the content submitted in the previous year's application and on projects that received funding. Please take a moment to read these comments as they may be helpful for this year's application. For information on submissions made before this period, please refer to the annual reports.

List of Grant Projects


TYTID	Project Title	Project Leader	Position, Organization	Grant Amount (yen）
D20-MG-0004	A Survey of Japanese Companies Abroad: Changing Attitudes, Building a CrossCultural Management and Human Resources Model, and Transferring it to Japan to Accommodate Foreign Human Resources	Takashi Moriya	Professor, Ritsumeikan University	8,300,000
D20-MG-0017	Supporting migrant communities in accessing information and developing pathways for testing, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19	Tamotsu Nakasa	Chair, SHARE (Services for the Health in Asian & African Regions)	7,800,000
D20-MG-0018	International Joint Project toward the Construction and Deployment of "Multicultural Regional Vitalisation Models" based on Skilled Migrants' Entrepreneurship and Investment	Atsushi Takeda	Associate Professor, Faculty of Industrial Sociology, Ritsumeikan University	9,000,000
D20-MG-0022	Creating a society where anybody can give birth and raise children without worries: investigation on conditions of foreign parents raising children from pregnancy to pre-school nurturing	Sakamoto Kumiko	Representative, Network for intercultural and inclusive society / Chairman, Aidensha	8,800,000
D20-MG-0028	Road to a diverse society for all patients: Improving the quality of medical interpreters by establishing an OJT training system at medical institutions	Hideomi Yamada	Assistant Manager, International Medical Center, The University of Tokyo Hospital	7,100,000
D20-MG-0072	Strategic approaches for a social infrastructure to invite foreign human capital –Establishing a Japanese Qualification Framework (JQF) and utilizing Foreign Credential Evaluation (FCE) systems	Shingo Ashizawa	Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Toyo University	9,000,000
Total 6				50,000,000

Grant Fremework


Proposal Submission Period	From September 7 to November 21, 2020, 23:59 Japan Standard Time
Application Requirements	Details are available in the Guidelines
Total Amount of Grants	50 million yen
Expected Grant Amount (per project)	JPY 5,000,000 to JPY 10,000,000
Project Period	Two years (May 2021 – Apr 2023) or Three years (May 2021 – Apr 2024)
Selection of Grants	Formal decisions on the awarding of grants will be made by the Toyota Foundation Board of Directors at a meeting, based on the deliberations of responsible Selection Committee consisting of external experts.