The SVI-SA Program supports visually impaired Japanese or permanent resident students for graduate or undergraduate study abroad.

Eligibility Requirements

1. Applicants must be visually impaired men or women, with a Certificate of Disability Grade 1-6.
    
2. Applicants must be Japanese nationals or permanent residents of Japan, living in Japan from the time of the application until the end of March 2008.
   
   All CWAJ scholarship applicants are required to be living in Japan at the time of their application. We regret, therefore, that we are unable to accept any inquiries from outside Japan.
    
3. Applicants for an undergraduate award must have completed at least two years of undergraduate study in Japan by the end of March 2008.
    
4. Applicants for a graduate award must have graduated with a degree from a Japanese university (4 year course) by the end of March 2008.
    
5. Applicants must be accepted in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at an accredited English-speaking university or research institution abroad by April 10, 2008 for the 2008-2009 academic year.
   
    
6. Applicants must submit a TOEFL score at the time of application. The TOEFL must have been taken after March 31, 2006. Instead of a TOEFL score, applicants may submit an IELTS score, taken after March 31, 2006.
   
    Applicants who have studied abroad at the college level in an English-speaking institution for a total of more than two academic years are ineligible.
   
    
7. Holders of scholarships greater than ¥1.0 million from any other scholarship foundation or from company scholarship programs (kigyo ryugaku) are ineligible. Financial aid and awards from the university where the applicant will study are excepted from this limitation
   
    
8. Former recipients of CWAJ awards and members of CWAJ are ineligible.

Obtaining the Application

Application forms are available from the CWAJ website and by request from CWAJ.

To download the application form, click the following link. You need Acrobat Reader 5 to read and print the downloaded forms in PDF format. If you do not have the reader installed on your computer, you can download it free of charge by clicking here.

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Download the SVI-SA Scholarship Application Form in PDF format  

Download the SVI-SA Scholarship Application Form in WORD format

Download the SVI-SA Scholarship Application Instructions in Text format

 

Requests for application forms will be accepted until Friday, November 16, 2007. To obtain an application form by email, please write to Scholarship@cwaj.org   To obtain an application form by mail, please write to the address below. Braille announcements are available and can be obtained by writing to the address below.

Submitting the Application

-Application submission by e-mail is NOT acceptable.

-All applications must be in writing and in English.

-Do not send by registered mail (yubin kakitome) or takkyubin.

- PERIOD OF ACCEPTANCE: Applications must be postmarked on or between  Thursday, November 1 and Friday, November 30, 2007.

-Completed applications must be mailed to the address below:

                       CWAJ SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE SVI-SA PROGRAM
                       CWAJ Center
                       2-24-13-1202 Kami-Osaki
                       Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0021

-Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. Extra documents will be disregarded.
-No documents will be returned.

Interviews and Selection

Interviews of the finalists will be held in Tokyo. Candidates should plan to be available during the month when interviews are being held and will be notified at least two weeks in advance if they have been selected for an interview. The interview will be conducted in both English and Japanese. Applicants will be notified of the results in writing.

CWAJ reserves the right to make its own selections and does not enter into any discussion of its decisions.

For more information about the scholarship program, please send your inquiry in English or Japanese only to scholarship@cwaj.org