H.E. Mr. Nobutake Odano, Ambassador of Japan to Myanmar , has signed two Exchanges of Notes with H.E. U Soe Tha, Minister for National Planning and Economic Development of the Union of Myanmar. The Notes cover an amount of 429 million yen for the project "Human Resource Development Scholarship" (approximately 4 million US dollars) to be provided under the Grant Aid scheme of the Government of Japan.
"The Human Resource Scholarship Project", which started in 2002, gives opportunities to promising youth of Myanmar , both from government and non-government organizations, for further studying at Japanese Universities to attain Masters' degree. Under this project, 103 young Myanmar people have already been sent to Japan .
It is expected that the projects will contribute to the development of Myanmar and promote existing friendly relations between Myanmar and Japan .
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