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Hitotsubashi Ranks First among all applicants in the 2009 selection for the most popular governmental research subvention ‘KAKENHI’

　Hitotsubashi University has kept the first place all over Japan for the last five consecutive years in the selection ratio for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI). The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology chose 46 projects from Hitotsubashi applications this year. The selection ratio is 54.8%, whereas the national average is 23.1% (as of June 25, 2009). (KAKENHI is the largest-scale governmental subsidy for academic research in Japan. Once a year, the government grants KAKENHI to applicants, both individuals and groups, in Japan conducting scientific research ranging from the humanities and social sciences to the natural sciences, who passed the peer review assessment. The annual budget of KAKENHI for FY2009 is about 197 billion yen (2,073million US$).

Status of FY2009 Grant Awards at Universities
(Top 5 national universities in the selection ratio)