Aims of the Fellowship Program

The Fellowship, which is administered by the Research Institute for Peace and Security(RIPS) and is operated in collaboration with the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership* (CGP, President Hideya Taida), aims to cultivate excellent young researchers with a global viewpoint in the field of security in Japan. The program is guided by Yoshinobu Yamamoto(Professor of the University of Tokyo and Director of RIPS) and Jitsuo Tsuchiyama (Professor of Aoyama Gakuin University and Director of RIPS).

*The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) was established in 1991 to help achieve closer relations between Japan and the United States, and to contribute to a better world through the cooperative efforts of both countries. The operation of CGP, which has offices in Tokyo and New York, is financed entirely with the interest from a 50 billion yen endowment (approximately 450 million dollars) created within The Japan Foundation.

The program endeavors to rear experts who will contribute to security studies, domestically and internationally, by providing the young researchers interested in this area with a research scholarship and by holding research seminars to provide support for specialized research. At the same time, the program aims to heighten academic interest relating to international security, arms control, strategic studies, Japanese security issues and other such fields which were late to develop in Japan's spheres of research and education.

The program has been operative since 1984 but there are already a great number of fellowship alumni already flourishing at the forefront of security studies.

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