<Individual Paper>An issues concerning the Japan Scholarship Foundation (Nihon Ikuei-Kai) : from the point of the propriety of "loan" scholarship : the report of the students life in the Ministry of Education

Abstract

Today, the scholarship policy in Japan has been heading for the direction that they increase the finances and the number of the students on a scholarship. However, the Japan Scholarship Foundation (Nihon Ikuei-Kai), the most popular scholarship in Japan, has been more like "students loan", which may cause the problem that those students who are most in need, will not apply for that scholarship, because "loan" scholarship can even become the burden for the students, especially, for those in the lower class. Therefore, that policy seems to be opposed to the idea of the equality of opportunity of education. These points are observed by the low data of the reports of the students life in the Ministry of Education