(Cited in Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun, April 22, 2006)
The HIRATA Corporation Educational Scholarship in the form of ¥3,000,000 yearly endowment to the Kumamoto University, was put up to promote friendly relations with the country of China and to provide assistance to persons with talent in commemoration of the 60th foundation anniversary and the 55th inaugural anniversary of the company. This educational scholarship provides assistance to five students selected from Chinese foreign students in engineering enrolled in the first semester of the doctoral course in the College of Engineering at Kumamoto University and who are paying their own expenses.