Scholarships and Financial Aid to Study Abroad in Japan

If you are going to Japan, be sure to apply for a grant to help defray your expenses. The deadlines for the following scholarships are in the beginning of October so be sure to hurry. The following are excerpts from the respective programs offering scholarships to those studying in Japan.

Freeman Asia

http://www.iie.org/programs/Freeman-ASIA/default.shtm

Freeman-ASIA (Freeman Awards for Study in Asia) is de-signed to support American undergraduates with demonstrated financial need who are planning to study overseas in East or Southeast Asia.

In the past, there have been few funding opportunities for study abroad in Asia. However, with the generous support of the Freeman Foundation, the Institute of International Education (IIE) now administers the Freeman-ASIA Awards in order to give more American undergraduate students the means to study in East and Southeast Asia.

Freeman-ASIA Award recipients are expected to share their experiences with their home campuses to encourage study abroad in Asia by others, and to spread greater understanding of Asian peoples and cultures within their home communities.

Since the launch of the program in 2000, Freeman-ASIA has supported over 2,500 U.S. undergraduates with their study abroad plans in East and Southeast Asia.

Bridging Scholarships

http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/Bridging/scholarships.html

The Association of Teachers of Japanese Bridging Project of-fers scholarships to American undergraduate students participat-ing in study-abroad programs in Japan. Funding from private foundations and major U.S. corporations has made it possible for ATJ to award 100 scholarships annually to assist students with the travel and living expenses they will incur while studying abroad in Japan for a semester or an academic year. Contribu-tors to the scholarship fund include Citigroup, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Estee Lauder Group of Companies, The Freeman Foundation, Goldman Sachs, Lockheed Martin, Morgan Stanley, Nishimoto Trading Co., Shinsei Bank, The Starr Foundation, Teradyne, Toyota Motor Sales USA, and Weyerhaeuser.

Undergraduate students majoring in any field of study are eli-gible to apply for these scholarships. Japanese language study is not a prerequisite. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and must be enrolled as undergraduates in a college or university in the United States before and during the time they are studying abroad.

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Japanese Language and Literature Alumni

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Strader Payton	Ben Robbins	Kohsuke Yamashiro

Kohsuke Yamashiro

From Kohsuke ジョージ・ワシントン大学日本語学科の生徒の皆さん、お元気ですか？ 私は2002年に国際関係と日本語の学位を獲得後、一年働き、その後に東アジアの政治と経済の修士課程の為にGWに戻って勉強していました。私は修士課程を取る間の二年間、JPN007とJPN008を教えていた先生ですが、実は日本語学科の卒業生でもあったのです。 現在はニューヨークにある日系の会社のマーケティング部門でマネージャーの仕事をしています。毎日の主な仕事は、営業部との話し合い、損益の計算、新商品開発、そして、商品売上計画の作成など、幅広い仕事を任されています。もちろん、日本の会社なので、上司には日本語での報告書提出が必要ですし、日本に書類を送るときは日本語で書く必要があります。皆さんもGW大学の日本語学科で頑張って日本語の勉強をしている事だと思います。今頑張って日本語を勉強すれば、日本の会社に就職する事も可能です。自分の可能性を広げるためにも勉強頑張ってくださいね。

Ben Robbins

From Ben I'm doing well at Oxford, about one third of the way through the Master's program. The atmosphere here is quite rigorous but very exciting; there are speakers and other events every night, and it is just a matter of finding enough time to go and see them. I've started studying Chinese, too, and I am about to begin a dissertation on Japan-China relations.