Nissan Motor Co. has marked the completion of the fourth term of its Nissan-NPO Learning Scholarship Program and held an orientation seminar for the start of the fifth.

At the automaker's head office in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, Nissan President and CEO Carlos Ghosn on Monday presented the 19 fourth-term scholarship recipients with certificates of completion.

"After coming to Japan," Ghosn said, "it was at a ceremony for this program that I was first able to meet with Japanese students and NPO representatives. I was quite moved at that time by the way in which young people were rising to the challenge of experiencing new things, and by the support offered to those young people in their quest for knowledge-based experience by Japan's NPOs.