With the financial support of the Sakura Science Exchange Program (SakuraScience Plan), which is sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology
Agency (JST), undergraduate and graduate students from Asian countries
visited our school and took science and technology experience/training
courses.
(Photo 3)Group photo of students
and a researcher fromSouthwest Forestry
University (China) takenwith our school Dean,
Vice Deans and otherfaculty members.

(Photo 1) Thai and Cambodian students
visited a traditional Japanese brewery.

(Photo 2) Speech by President Matsuo
at the farewell party in front the Thai,
Cambodian and Japanese students.

(Photo 4)
Lecture of experiments
and practical training for
the Chinese students.

(Photo 5)Group photo of theChinese students takenwith the employees of a
housing‐material maker
during a factory tour.

Sakura Science Plan (SSP) is the Japan‐Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science, whichis sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) in a collaboration ofindustry‐academia‐government. Through the SSP, implemented in 2014, approximately
26,000 young people have been invited from Asian countries (now additionally eligible
for countries in Latin America) to Japan to have experience or training in Japanesescience and technology [https://ssp.jst.go.jp/EN/outline/index.html]. As for ourgraduate school, fifteen proposed plans were adopted in the past five fiscal years(FY2014 ‐ FY2018), and students and young researchers from Thailand, Cambodia,
Myanmar, China, Indonesia and the Philippines participated in the programs.* InFY2019, following three plans for experience/training programs have been carried out
or is now scheduled: (1) Kasetsart University (Thailand) and Royal University ofAgriculture (Cambodia), 10 students, during Jun 8‐16, Photos 1 & 2; (2) Southwest
Forestry University (China), 10 students, during Sep 8‐14, Photos 3‐5; (3) Jadavpur
University (India), 10 students, scheduled during Jan 26‐Feb 1, 2020. We hope thatstudents who participate in the SSP programs are inspired and motivated to enter ourgraduate school in the near future. (*, Please refer to the table in the next page.)

The Japan‐Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science (Sakura Science Plan, SSP, supported by JST) fulfilled inthe Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences (GSBS), Nagoya University*1
Fiscal year

Name of CountryUniversity

Numbers Numbers ofofNon‐Students students*2

PeriodCourse*3

The Kingdom of Thailand

Kasetsart University
Chulalongkorn University
Chiang Mai University
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology
Ladkrabang101

2014/11/17‐23

A

The People's Republic of China

College of Life Science, Shandong University21

2015/1/20‐2/2

B

The Kingdom of Thailand
The Kingdom of Cambodia

Kasetsart University
Royal University of Agriculture101

2015/8/1‐9A

The Republic of the Union ofMyanmar

University of Yangon

110

2015/11/11‐23

B

The Kingdom of Thailand

Chulalongkorn University
Chiang Mai University
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology
Ladkrabang
Rajamangala University of Technology Isan101

2015/11/16‐22

A

The Kingdom of Thailand
The Kingdom of Cambodia

Kasetsart University
Royal University of Agriculture101

2016/7/30‐8/7A

The Kingdom of Thailand

Kasetsart University
Chulalongkorn UniversityChiang Mai University
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology
Ladkrabang
Rajamangala University of Technology Isan101

2016/12/12‐17

A

The Kingdom of Thailand
The Kingdom of Cambodia

Kasetsart University
Royal University of Agriculture101

2017/7/29‐8/6

AThe People's Republic of China

China Agricultural University

31

2017/12/3‐15

B

The Republic of Indonesia

Universitas Gadjah Mada101

2017/11/20‐26

A

The Republic of the Philippines

Ateneo de Manila University91

2018/1/23‐2/1A

The Kingdom of Thailand
The Kingdom of Cambodia

Kasetsart University
Royal University of Agriculture102

2018/6/2‐8/6/10

A

The People's Republic of China

China Agricultural University
Beijing Forestry University

152

2018/11/25‐12/1

A

The People's Republic of China

China Agricultural University

3

1

2018/8/26‐9/1

A

The Republic of Indonesia

Universitas Gadjah Mada

101

2019/1/28‐2/3

A

The Kingdom of Thailand
The Kingdom of Cambodia

Kasetsart University
Royal University of Agriculture102

2019/6/8‐16

C

The People's Republic of China

Southwest Forestry University

10

1

2019/9/8‐14

A

The Republic of India

Jadavpur University101

2020/1/26‐2/1(scheduled)

A

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

*1
This table enlists the plans proposed only by the faculty members of the GSBS but not by other schools. Activity reports are found at.the following URL:
https://ssp.jst.go.jp/EN/report/nendo.html (in English) and https://ssp.jst.go.jp/report/nendo.html (in Japanese).
*2
Numbers of faculty members, researchers (as a conductor of tour group, in courses A and C) and collaborative researchers (in course B) who are invited to theGSBS by the SSP.
*3

A, Science and Technology Experience Course; B, Collaborative Research Activities Course; C, Science and Technology Training Course.