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 »

The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) are pleased to announce the recruitment of a new group of participants for the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future. This program was launched in 2009 to foster a new generation of Japan specialists. The four existing cohorts of Network for the Future scholars regularly have ...READ MORE »

The Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award will again be conferred in 2019, administered through the Association for Asian Studies. In accordance with the wishes of the Chaplin family, each year a prize of $1000 will be awarded to either a current graduate student or a full-time instructor of Japanese for excellence in Japanese language teaching at the college-level. A full-time instructor ...READ MORE »

The Japan U.S. Friendship Commission announces the 2019-2020 U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship Program. This unique fellowship is designed to highlight U.S.-Japan artistic partnerships during the 2020 Olympic and/or Paralympic Games in Tokyo.  Each collaborative team will receive a $25,000 fellowship award! U.S. citizens or permanent residents are eligible to apply to collaborate with an artist in Japan. The application deadline is March 1, 2019 ...READ MORE »