Abstract
Receiving foreign students is one of the key strategies to obtain international talent. A scholarship is essential to attract talented foreign students. However, the scholarship system, which had previously provided assistance to 100,000 international students, was not changed accordingly. Delays in reforming the system have led to its gradual obsolescence. Not only has the government failed to reach its policy goals, it has also put at risk Japan's ability to attract top international talent in a competitive environment for global human resources. In this paper the author first examine the existing scholarship system for international students, highlighting the role of the system plays and its flaws. Next we discuss the development of scholarship programs for acquiring human resources. Further, based on a model from the health and welfare sector, we consider the international student scholarship system as one of the measures to ensure foreign human resources.
