MEXT FY 2020 Second Supplementary Budget: 161.7 billion yen(approved by the Diet on June 12, 2020)
Support for students, artists, athletes, etc., in difficult circumstances
Support for financially distressed students: 15.3 billion yen
MEXT will subsidize the costs incurred by universities in implementing measures for
reducing tuition and other costs to ensure that students in financial need will not have toabandon their studies due to financial reasons as a result of the spread of COVID-19.
Emergency comprehensive support for cultural arts and sports activities: 58billion yen
o Support for continuing cultural arts and sports activities (50.9 billion yen)
MEXT will fund necessary expenses for cultural arts and sports organizations and others,
including freelancers that were forced to cancel their activities, so that they can actively
undertake efforts to continue their activities, including stepped-up anti-coronavirus
measures.
o Project to strengthen the earning capacity of cultural arts (5 billion yen)This project promotes the drastic reform of the earning structure of cultural arts organizations
through initiatives for securing and strengthening the earning capacity of these organizations
by establishing new ways to attract viewers and so on that leverage the special
characteristics of each genre in the performing arts.
o Support for the resumption of sports events (2 billion yen)
To promote the smooth and full-fledged resumption of sports events, MEXT will support
measures that prevent the spread of COVID-19 at national sports events, as well as
publicizing events to attract spectators, securing sports venues, etc., and support the holdingof regional alternative events for national school sports club events.
Support for universities and researchers, strengthening the research foundation
Interest grants for short-term borrowing by national universities: 300 million yen
MEXT will support national universities with attached hospitals that are accepting seriously
ill COVID-19 patients in their financing efforts by subsidizing their interest payments on
short-term borrowing from private-sector financial institutions.

Support for the resumption and continuation of research by improving research
environments: 3 billion yen
MEXT will support the improvement of research facilities to enable automation or remoteuse so that doctoral students and other researchers can promptly resume and continue theirresearch activities.
Use of PCR equipment at research facilities: 500 million yen
MEXT will provide support to universities and other institutions that are cooperating on
testing to expand the testing system for COVID-19 by helping to cover new expenses arisingfrom changes in research plans due to their cooperation or expenses for initial investments
in setting up a testing system within the university.
Ensuring learning for primary/secondary and post-secondary students
Ensuring learning for primary/secondary students during temporary school
closures: 77.4 billion yen
o Securing necessary personnel to ensure learning (31.8 billion yen)
In anticipation of prolonged school closures or phased school re-openings, MEXT will
support the employment of a wide range of personnel, including retired teachers anduniversity students, beginning with students in teaching courses, as well as their urgent
placement to support regular faculty in order to ensure to the greatest extent possible thatno child is left behind in his/her learning.
o Support for resuming school education activities (40.5 billion yen)
To support schools to implement new ways necessary for combatting COVID-19 at schools
and ensuring students' learning, MEXT will provide schools with financial support to carryout these measures quickly and flexibly.
o Support for buying masks and other coronavirus countermeasures at kindergartens (3billion yen)
MEXT will provide funds for buying masks, disinfectants, etc. as well as cover increasing
expenses arising from work required for thoroughly carrying out coronavirus
countermeasures in order to strengthen the measures at kindergartens for stopping thespread of COVID-19.

o Increasing support for coronavirus countermeasures on school buses for special needs
education schools (1.6 billion yen)
To ensure a safe and secure school commuting environment for children with disabilities,
MEXT will fund efforts for minimizing infection risks on school buses for special needs
education schools.
o Project for upgrading educational environment of overseas Japanese schools (500million yen)
To ensure the learning of students at Japanese schools overseas, MEXT will support
providing one computer for each student and each teacher as well as projects for testingand validating the educational systems using ICT.
Accelerating the setting up of distance learning classes at universities, collegesof technology, specialized training colleges: 7.3 billion yen
MEXT will promote the preparation of environments enabling all universities, colleges oftechnology, and specialized training colleges with new needs brought on by the prolongationof the COVID-19 pandemic to prepare the facilities and systems for distance learningclasses and to provide advanced education using digital technology.
(10 billion yen, including 2.7 billion yen allocated in the MEXT FY 2020 First SupplementaryBudget)