MUFG; Development of the Next Generation and Support for Children

MUFG provides a variety of living and educational support to help all children grow up equally and healthily with the aims of comprehensively raising the level of their education and quality of life.

Supporting Future Generation

Establishing the Ashinaga MUFG Scholarship

MUFG established the Ashinaga MUFG Scholarship

MUFG has made the decision to continuously support the Ashinaga Foundation. To that end, in cooperation with the Foundation, we have established the Ashinaga MUFG Scholarship, a system for which recipients are not required to pay the money back. This scholarship is for third-year high school students who would like to enter university and for university students studying the sciences.

Based on the idea that education is the foundation of a stable society and the source of economic growth, the Ashinaga MUFG Scholarship works to eliminate disparities in educational opportunities by providing financial support to high school students who would like to enter university and to university students studying the sciences. The scholarship also contributes to solving structural problems in Japanese society, such as shortage of human resources involved in digital fields, who will be needed with the popularization and expansion of AI and other technologies addressed by the government, as well as shortage of human resources working in medical and welfare fields.

Support for Children's Lives and Education

Donations to Child Support Groups

Since FY 2020, MUFG has been supporting CliniClowns Japan, an NPO that supports children fighting disease, as well as the NPO's Learning for ALL and Chance for Children. Both of which are public interest incorporated associations that support children from less forunate backgrounds (180 million yen so far).

Support for Shiki Theatre Company's Kokorono Gekijo

MUFG sponsors Shiki Theatre Company's countrywide project Kokorono Gekijo. The project invites elementary school students to a musical, providing an opportunity to learn important things about life, such as its preciousness, compassion for others, and the joy of believing in one another.

In FY 2020 and 2021, scheduled performances of Kokorono Gekijo were delivered online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photo: Akihito Abe

Supporting UNESCO’s ”U-Smile - Connecting Children Support Program”

MUFG is supporting National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan’s "U-Smile - Connecting Children Support Program" (regional cooperative comprehensive educational support project). This program provides comprehensive support, such as educational and housing support, for Japanese children in difficult circumstances for various reasons such as relative poverty. By supporting this program, we share in UNESCO’s aim to create a society where children can have hopes and dreams.

Educational support at Takamatsu City

Online educational support at Maebashi City

Sponsoring UNESCO School

MUFG works the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan and actively promotes SDGs on education in elementary schools, as well as middle schools and high schools. This is in order to support the development of the next generation, which is essential for the realization and maintenance of a sustainable society. In FY 2022, we provided financial support to 78 schools as part of the "UNESCO School SDGs Assist Project". We also contributed to promoting UNESCO School’s activities by sponsoring their national conference where we showcased the SDGs initiatives of companies.

Online discussion about mental health, with high schools in various regions in Asia

Field study about biomass power generation on summer vacation

Japanese drum performance at Fire Festival in Seki, in Himeji city

TOMODACHI

MUFG launched the TOMODACHI MUFG International Exchange Program in 2012, one year after the Great East Japan Earthquake. This program is designed to support the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and to strengthen cultural and economic ties between the United States and Japan. Due to continued COvid-19 restrictions, in FY 2022, we offered junior high and high school students in California the opportunity to study in Japan online.

Donations to Organizations Working to Close the Education Gap

With a vision of realizing a world where every child can receive equal education, Teach For Japan, an NPO, runs a fellowship program in which public schools are staffed with personnel who have been independently selected and trained. MUFG empathizes with the vision and activities of Teach For Japan and we have been supporting them since FY 2020.