NEWS

My name is Chie Hirata, and I am a sophomore student at ICU. I plan to graduate in March of 2017.

Program Director Mark Flanigan attended the annual Overseas Association for College Admissions Counseling (OACAC) Conference, which was held at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa Bay, FL. This was a nice chance to meet and network with new colleagues in global education. In this Blog post, Mark shares more about his experience there.

Professor Satoshi Tomioka is an ICU alumnus from the class of ’87. He is currently a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Delaware, and recently returned to ICU as a JICUF Visiting Scholar to participate in the Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics conference.

Program Director Tara DeWorsop recently had a chance to interview Christine Nalubowa. Christine received her BA and MA from ICU, and is a recipient of scholarship support from the Japan ICU Foundation and Rotary Yoneyama.

Global Link is a new program of the Japan ICU Foundation that matches four year ICU students with organizations in New York City for seven weeks. The goal of this program is to provide ICU students with a unique experience abroad that will help them develop skills that will be invaluable in their life and career.

David Janes, JICUF Trustee and part of the second cohort of the Mansfield Foundation’s U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Scholars, has published a new article in the new book: “Challenges Facing Japan: Perspectives from the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future.”

My name is Paul Clark, and I am a four year regular undergraduate student from a small farm in Baltimore, Maryland.

Based on an invitation from Pacific Forum CSIS, Mark Flanigan had the pleasure of joining the World Sports Values Summit for Peace and Development at the United Nations here in NYC. As part of the Summit, Mark was invited to serve on a panel entitled “The Transformational Potential of the Tokyo Olympics and International Sporting Platforms.” Mark spoke about his experiences living in Nagasaki and Tokyo, and shared his thoughts on the impacts of both the 1964 and 2020 Summer Olympic Games on Tokyo and Japan as a whole.

Members of The U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) and other U.S.-Japan related organizations, including The Japan ICU Foundation, met yesterday in Washington D.C. to discuss key takeaways of the President Obama / Prime Minister Abe joint statement adopting CULCON’s goal of doubling two-way student exchange by the year 2020. Representatives of over 20 organizations joined Susan Stevenson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, in discussing the design and implementation of a new exchange program.