あしながおじさん

noun

anonymous scholarship system for traffic orphans

Refers to a Japanese system providing anonymous financial support for the education of children who lost parents in traffic accidents. The name comes from the 1912 novel 'Daddy-Long-Legs' by Jean Webster.

• あしながおじさんは、交こう通つう事じ故こで親おやを亡なくした子こどもたちを支し援えんする制せい度どです。

  Ashina-ga-ojisan is a system that supports children who have lost their parents in traffic accidents.

• 彼かの女じょはあしながおじさんの奨しょう学がく金きんで大だい学がくに通かよった。

  She attended university on an Ashinaga scholarship.