UHM students, Mercedes Bazzone (Asian studies undergraduate) and Adam Schuetzler (MA student, Japanese literature), partcipated in the Ehime Prefectural International Center (EPIC) this past summer. The main objective of their program was to foster friendship and understanding between Ehime and Hawai’i. Please see below some pictures from their trip:

Mercedes and Adam giving [...]

Mr. Shane Shibazaki (Japanese major) was selected as a recipient of the prestigious MEXT(Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology) Japanese Studies Scholarship 2011-2012. He will be studying advanced Japanese and other courses for one year at Waseda University in Tokyo.  He was one of four students to receive the scholarship this [...]

The Center for Japanese Studies, Japan-America Society of Hawai’i, and First Insurance Co. sponsored two UHM students to participate in the 63rd Japan-America Studies Conference this past summer.  Ms. Michelle Lau (undergraduate student, Management Information Systems major) and Mr. Kiah Gilbert (undergraduate student, Marketing & International Business major) participated in this program and gave [...]