Social Activities - Collaboration Programs with the JAL Foundation

Scholarship Program

The JAL Foundation operates a scholarship program.
Among its objectives is the improvement of mutual international understanding. JAL provides air tickets to 36 students from 11 countries and regions in Asia and Oceania who are invited to participate in the program.

World Children’s Haiku Camp

The aim of this program is to encourage the inclusion of haiku into school curricula around the world in order to spread the joy of creating haiku. We believe this will lead to a deeper understanding of the traditional Japanese culture from which this poetic art form originated, as well as of modern-day Japan. Inviting the top prizewinners of the World Haiku Contest to Japan provides children of the world with an opportunity to experience Japan and mingle with children from Japan. We provided free flights to 20 children from 16 countries and regions who were winners in the competition last year for a Haiku Camp held on July 7, 2004 in the town of Yuwa in Akita Prefecture.

Fulbright Program

JAL Group supports the JAL Foundation’s aid to the Fulbright Japan-US exchange program by providing air tickets to the 44 American Fulbright scholars who come to Japan.

Tropospheric Observations

To help unravel the global warming mechanism, Japan Airlines International Co., Ltd. and JAL Foundation set up a joint project with the Meteorological Agency Research Institute, supported by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, to observe greenhouse gases.
The concentration of greenhouse gases in the troposphere is periodically observed using automatic air samplers installed on our aircraft flying regular international routes. The project, started in April 1993, still carries out observations twice a month, and by the end of March 2005 had made a total of 262 observations.

For more details, please see the JAL Foundation web site.

http://www.jal-foundation.or.jp/