ASADA Katsumi President of JCCU and the Managing Director WADA Toshiaki, on September 13, 2016 visited the Deputy Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology with a petition related to scholarships.

The petition suggested to the Ministry to consider the burden of low-income families having children in schools and demanded interest-free for the loan type scholarships and a system improvement related to the current scholarship repayment and also suggested the implementation of a grant type scholarship.

Currently, under the established "benefit scholarship investigation team" by the Ministry, specific investigation is being carried on student scholarships.