1 Scholarship, ¥2.0 Million

The SVI-SJ Program supports visually impaired Japanese or permanent resident students for graduate or undergraduate study in Japan.

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 at the time of application.
   
   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 studies in a Japanese university by the end of March 2008.
    
4. Applicants for a graduate award must have graduated with a degree from a Japanese university (four year course) by the end of March 2008, and must be accepted in a graduate degree program by March 31, 2008.
    
5. 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.
    
6. 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-SJ Scholarship Application Form in PDF format

   Download the SVI-SJ Scholarship Application Form in WORD format

   Download the SVI-SJ 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.

    

   CWAJ SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE    CWAJ Center    2-24-13-1202 Kami-Osaki    Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0021          APPLICATION REQUEST (SVI-SJ)

   Submitting the Application
   
   -Application submission by e-mail is NOT acceptable.
   
   -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-SJ 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 interviews 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