UNHCR and Soka University Sign Agreement

On June 21, Soka University, located in Hachioji, Japan, signed an agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Japan for UNHCR concerning the UNHCR-Refugee Higher Education Program (RHEP). The RHEP offers refugees living in Japan an opportunity to receive higher education. Under the agreement, from 2022, the university will accept one refugee student per year into its Graduate School of International Peace Studies. This is the second RHEP agreement that Soka University has signed. The first was signed in 2016, and since 2017, the university has been accepting one refugee student per year into undergraduate programs, providing full exemption of admission fees and tuition as well as support for living expenses. Soka University is the first university in Japan to accept refugees into both undergraduate and graduate programs.