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Thank you very much for visiting the Ship for World Youth Leaders (SWY) Official Website. SWY is an exceptional international youth exchange program for the young leaders of the world, sponsored by the Cabinet Office of the Japanese Government.
In 1967, the Japanese Youth Goodwill Cruise Program (JYGC) began as one of the commemorative projects of the Centennial of the Meiji Restoration.
JYGC was a project which provided big dreams and hopes to many Japanese youths where the government took initiative to send youths overseas at the time when it was still extremely difficult for them to go abroad on their own.
In a rapid globalization of today’s world, where cross-border cooperation, coordination, and negotiation are indispensable at every field, leaders who are able to play a key role in initiating globalization are required at local communities as well as international society.