2021 Migrants and Japanese Society

Program Information for previous years

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

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）
D21-MG-0014	Prototyping financial inclusion system for financially excluded foreign residents based on participatory research for financial exclusion of foreign residents in Japan	Tetsuo Kato	REEP Foundation, Managing Director	5,350,000
D21-MG-0016	Survey on the actual conditions of employment of refugees living in the Tokai region and efforts to improve their working environment	Maho Hadano	Door to Asylum Nagoya, Coordinator	5,550,000
D21-MG-0017	Co-Creation Platform for Evidence Based Migration Policy Making	Ryo Kanbayashi	Hitotsubashi University, Professor	8,400,000
D21-MG-0028	Establishing a Multilingual Consultation Desk Network for Foreign Human Resource Inclusion in a Post-Corona Society and Developing a System for Training Professional Human Resources	Yoshihiko Doi	NGO Resource Center for Multicultural Community Tokai, Representative Director	8,400,000
D21-MG-0039	Issues and Measures for Human Resource Development of ASEAN Engineers Working in Japan	Yuri Sadoi	Faculty of Economics, Meijo University, Professor	7,600,000
D21-MG-0042	Research and Analysis of Changes in Mindset and Behavior of International Students and Human Resources in Companies through Mutual Mentoring and Systematization of Training Model	Yu Shinagawa	An-Nahal Inc., CEO & Founder	6,500,000
D21-MG-0045	Development and dissemination of a multilingual online health and wellbeing information crowdsourcing platform by a multinational team - Towards equitable access to healthcare	Russell Miller	University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Community and Global Health, Visiting Scientist	8,200,000
Total 7				50,000,000

Grant Fremework


Proposal Submission Period	From September 6 to November 20, 2021, 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 2022 – Apr 2024) or Three years (May 2022 – Apr 2025)
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.

Online Seminar

"The Forefront of Accepting Foreign Human Resources: From the Field of Children, Employment, and Health": We invited several grantees to report their projects online and digest movies are dubbed in English.

Session 1: Childrearing and Institutions — Session 1: "Childrearing and Institutions"

Session 2: Inviting and Accepting Human Capital — Session 2: "Inviting and Accepting Human Capital"

Session 3: Communication in Healthcare — Session 3: "Communication in Healthcare"