Still just a 24-year-old senior at Tokyo's Waseda University, Atsuyoshi Saisho helped 18 students in a poor Bangladeshi village lacking teachers pass their university entrance exams.
Saisho created and heads what he calls the e-Education project, which helps students in developing countries who cannot afford to study for university exams or are deprived of the opportunity for other reasons by distributing DVDs to them containing lectures by top-ranked instructors.
"A DVD is one way to 'increase' the number of teachers without spending that much," Saisho said, noting the great thing about learning from a DVD is that a student can watch lectures over and over.