October 2018
Education
Ashoka Japan
To support the Young Changemakers Exchange project to facilitate cross-cultural exchange and foster long-standing connections between young social innovators from Japan and the U.S. and collaborate to catalyze positive change in the globalizing world.
Tokyo, Japan. ¥2,000,000
Ballard High School
To support the expansion of teaching about world history: World War II Unit, and as part of the 2018 Elgin Heinz Award.
Huxley, IA. $5,000
Boston Higashi School
To support the internship program for two vocational high school students from Musashino Higashi Gakuen to come to Boston Higashi School.
Randolph, MA. $10,000
Ed W. Clark High School
To support six students to participate in the 2019 National Japan Bowl on April 13, 2019 in Washington DC, and as part of the 2018 Elgin Heinz Award.
Las Vegas, NV. $5,000
Friends of the Randolph Shizukuishi Exchange Project Inc.
To support a student exchange program between Randolph Union Middle School, Vermont, and Shizikuishi Middle School, Japan.
Randolph, VT. $40,000
Global Fund for Education Assistance (Beyond Tomorrow)
To support the 2019 Jiro Murase Scholarship Program, which brings Japanese students to the United States to learn about legal and political affairs.
Tokyo, Japan. ¥6,183,100
Japan-America Society of Washington, DC
To support a national Japanese language and culture competition for high school students.
Washington, DC. $35,000
La Guardia High School Parents Association Inc.
To support the reinstatement of AP Japanese class for the school year 2018-19; was discontinued for lack of funding.
New York, NY. $5,000
Seafair Foundation
To support the Seafair Ambassador Program that engages local high school students in a trip to Kobe, Japan, to strengthen the Seattle-Kobe Sister City relationship.
Seattle, WA. $20,000
Sumter County Schools
To support an educational partnership and exchange between schools in Sumter County, Georgia, and Miyoshi, Japan, that was originally started by former President Jimmy Carter.
Americus, GA. $42,250
Table for Two USA
To support a Japanese inspired food education program for K-12 students in the U.S.
Washington, DC. $67,976
The America-Japan Society, Inc.
To support the America Bowl competition for Japanese high school students to answer in English about American history, culture, arts, geography, science, and U.S.-Japan relations.
Tokyo, Japan. ¥1,000,000
Working Mothers Association of Japan
To support a program for junior high school students from single-parent households with an interest in the STEM field.
Tokyo, Japan. ¥6,210,750
Communication and Public Opinion
Cornell University: Yamatai Taiko Group
To support the participation of the Yamatai Taiko Group in the 2019 East Coast Taiko Conference; expand their knowledge and skills.
Ithaca, NY. $10,000
Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
To support the research with the last active boatbuilder in Japan, process of building a traditional wooden fishing boat; prepare publication workshops and future collaboratives with the Apprenticeshop of Rockland Maine, one of America’s oldest boatbuilding schools.
Middlebury, VT. $10,000
Independent Filmmaker Project
To support a documentary film Nourishing Japan about food education in Japan; how we understand food, and our lives through the context of what we eat.
Brooklyn, NY. $30,361
New York Women in Film and Television
To support a documentary film on Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow.
New York, NY. $50,000
U.S.-Japan Council
To support the council’s program: Japan Flood Friendship Fund (JFFF); fundraising for flood affected regions.
Washington, DC. $3,000
US-Japan Policy Studies
American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Memorial Society
To support the audio visual costs for the screening of the documentary film Paper Lanterns at the ADBC-MS annual convention from May 2-5, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Jamaica, MA. $985
Asia Pacific Initiative
To support a joint research project with CSIS “U.S. Japan Economic Cooperation in Third Countries.”
Tokyo, Japan. ¥2,248,400