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Japanese billionaire donates record-setting $31 million to UCLA humanities program
A billionaire Japanese businessman has donated $31 million to the UCLA College Division of Humanities, making it the largest gift in the program's history.The donation from Tadashi Yanai will support the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, which was created at UCLA - in partnership with Tokyo's Waseda University -- in 2014 thanks to a $2.5 million donation from the businessman. Yanai in 2020 donated $25 million to the initiative.The donation will support the initiative to promote the study of Japanese literature, language and culture.Yanai, considered one of the richest -- if not the richest -- people in Japan,...
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