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JICUF Grantee Spotlight: 2024 Japan Israel Palestine Student Conference

Aki Takada grant, grantee, Israel, JIPSC, middle east, Palestine, peace, peace building, student club, student grant June 27, 2024

In the 2023-24 winter term, ICU undergraduate student Shiho Takechi was awarded a JICUF grant on behalf of the Japan Israel Palestine Student Conference (JIPSC). ICU students played a key role in founding JIPSC in 2003, and for over 20 years, JIPSC has facilitated dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian students and raised awareness of the Israel-Palestine conflict in Japan. This year, with the region in a crisis, JIPSC plans to invite eight youth from both Israel and Palestine to Japan. While the JICUF grant will cover a part of their travel expenses to Japan, JIPSC is fundraising to cover the remainder of the cost.

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JICUF Grantee Highlight: “Nihongo de Itadakimasu” Event

Luke Palermo cooking, grant, grantee, Japanese, language, student activities fund, student program March 5, 2019

Last December, JICUF Student Activity Fund recipient and ICU student Akiyo Sasaki and co-organizers Machi Niiya, Ayumi Murase, Rio Kokuta, and Shimon Hibi began the “Nihongo de Itadakimasu: Cultural Exchange through Japanese Language and Food” project. The aim of the project was to promote intercultural communication by inviting ICU students of all Japanese levels to mingle with each other and learn about Japanese culture.

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JICUF Grantee Highlight: Linguistics Research Project in Hokkaido by Michinori Suzuki

Aki Takada grant, grantee, Hokkaido, linguistics, research trip, student, student grants, student travel fund September 5, 2018

Fourth-year ICU student Michinori Suzuki received a JICUF student travel fund of ¥651,800 last fall to conduct two research trips to Hokkaido. Michinori majors in linguistics, and we asked him about his research on voiced plosives in two Japanese dialects.