OVERVIEW The TOMODACHI Initiative is a public-private partnership between the U.S.-Japan Council (Japan) and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, with support from the Government of Japan. Born out of support for Japan’s recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake, TOMODACHI invests in the next generation of Japanese and American leaders through educational and cultural exchanges as well as leadership programs. The ...READ MORE »

Registration is open for the 2019 Annual Spring Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), which will be held in Denver, Colorado, on Thursday, March 21. Paper and panel presentations will take place on the Plaza Concourse Level of the Sheraton Denver Hotel from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A keynote session on diversity and inclusion in Japanese language education will follow at ...READ MORE »

Carnegie Mellon will launch a new MA program in Global Communication and Applied Translation this fall. The application deadline is April 1. The Master of Arts in Global Communication and Applied Translation is a one and one-half year program that provides students with training in the principles and practices of professional translation, localization, and global communication. Students will build expertise through ...READ MORE »

The 2019 Kobe College Corporation-Japan Education Exchange (KCC-JEE) High School Essay Contest is open with a Feb 4 deadline.   High school students who will have completed at least one year of formal, face-to-face Japanese language instruction in a public or private high school; who will be 16 years of age by June 1, 2019; and who have not previously traveled to Japan are ...READ MORE »

The Center for East Asian Studies (a federally-funded Title VI National Resource Center), the Korean Flagship Program, and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are pleased to co-host a workshop for K-16 instructors of ...READ MORE »

**************************************************** Grants for Nationwide/Statewide/Regional-level Events and Projects **************************************************** 1.  Japanese Language Learners Event Grant Deadlines:  March 1 and September 1, 2019 (Contact/Inquiry: Mike Penny )   2.  Japanese-Language Education Project Grant (Examples: conferences, seminars, workshops, teaching material development, research projects, etc.) Deadline:  2 months before the project start date (Contact/Inquiry: Mamiko Nakai) ******************************** Grants for Individual Japanese Language Programs ******************************** 3.  Salary Assistance Grant for Japanese-Language ...READ MORE »

The Kobe College Corp-Japan Education Exchange (KCC-JEE) graduate fellowship application is now open: https://www.kccjee.org/graduate-fellowship-program This $30,000 fellowship is open to PhD students planning to study/research in Japan. The deadline is March 4, 2019. The KCC Japan Education Exchange Graduate Fellowships Program was established in 1996 to support qualified PhD graduate students for research or study in Japan. The purpose of the fellowship ...READ MORE »

Registration for the 2018 National Japanese Exam are now open until ** Friday, February 5. **  Exam period: March 4 – April 12, 2019 The National Japanese Exam (NJE) is an online, proficiency-oriented, standards-based and culture-related assessment tool for students who are studying Japanese as a second language. The purpose of the NJE is to recognize achievement in the study of Japanese language and culture, to motivate ...READ MORE »

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures) invites applications for the summer M. A.. program in Japanese Pedagogy. Application deadline: February 15, 2019. The 2019 program will begin on Monday, June 3rd and last until Friday, August 2nd, during which the following courses will be taught: I. Three-week Pedagogy Course (6/03-6/21): - *Intermediate/Advanced Japanese Pedagogy, Prof. Mariko Moroishi ...READ MORE »

We are pleased to announce that the 25th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum (PJPF) will take place on May 11-12, 2019 at Princeton University. The theme of the Forum is "Toward Inclusive Language Education: Rethinking the Diversity of Modern Day Society." Three keynote speakers, Dr. Emi Otsuji (University of Technology, Sydney), Professor Marcella Mariotti (Ca’Foscari University of Venice), and Professor Seiichi ...READ MORE »