About theFundKeio University School of MedicineHistory of the FundObjectives of the FundAs Japan’s oldest private institution of higher learning, Keio University has long been a beacon of education and research. Founded in 1858 by Yukichi Fukuzawa, a pioneer of Japan’s modernization in a tumultuous era of great transition, the university has played an important role in the country's cultural development and has produced many of its industrial leaders.With ten faculties and fourteen graduate schools, today Keio University continues to be one of Japan’s leading universities, renowned for its wide-ranging and ever-growing academic exchanges throughout the international community.The Keio University School of Medicine was established in 1917, in accordance with the wishes of Fukuzawa, and Dr. Shibasaburo Kitasato was appointed as its first dean. The School was officially recognized in 1920 when Keio University was accredited as the first private Japanese university.Since its establishment, the School of Medicine has trained numerous outstanding doctors and researchers in the fields of medicine and the life sciences and has contributed extensively to Japanese society through its education, research, and medical services.In the fall of 1994, Dr. Mitsunada Sakaguchi, a 1940 alumnus of the School of Medicine, donated five billion yen to Keio University, with the express desire that it be used both to encourage medical research and its creative development at Keio University and to promote advances in medicine worldwide. In keeping with Dr. Sakaguchi’s commitment, Keio launched the Keio University Medical Science Fund on April 1, 1995. The fund was able to further expand the scope of its activities after Dr. Sakaguchi made an additional donation of two billion yen in July 1999, bringing the fund to a total of seven billion yen.The Fund aims to promote the creative development of medicine and the life sciences, encourage international academic exchange and expansion of the international network of medical researchers, and improve the well-being of humankind. It also aims to encourage young researchers, especially those of Keio University, who will lead the future of Japanese medicine, expecting them to contribute to the international development of medical research, medical services, and academic exchange in the same spirit as Fukuzawa and Kitasato. We expect that Keio’s longstanding reputation, built over generations of dedication and innovation, will continue to grow far into the future.2
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