ISDP’s Japan Center attended the scholarship award ceremony arranged by SJSF and SJF

May 30, 2022: On Monday 16, the Stockholm Japan Center was honored to attend an award ceremony arranged by the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation (SJSF) and the Sweden-Japan Foundation (SJF), following a generous contribution by the SJSF to support the Center’s research activities. The ceremony was attended by H.E. Mr. Noke Masaki, Japanese Ambassador to Sweden, who presented the award together with the chairman of SJSF, Mrs. Elisabeth Nilsson. The funding awarded to ISDP by the Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation will be used to support a new research project investigating female political participation in Northeast Asian parliamentary institutions, with a particular focus on Japan.