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UH Mānoa Library contributes to groundbreaking Japanese migration exhibit

October 28, 2019

The exhibit in Chiba, Japan, Hawaii: 150 Years of Japanese Migration and Histories of Dream Islands, features about 50 items from the UH library including rare documents and photos.

Japanese language student awarded prestigious scholarship

September 12, 2019

UH Mānoa student Joseph Iseri is one of only three United States award recipients of the 2019–20 Monbukagakusho Scholarship.

Japan grants high honor to UH professor

July 10, 2019

Bob Huey, professor of Japanese literature, was honored with the Order of the Rising Sun for his contribution to the development of Japanese studies in the U.S.

JTB Goodwill Foundation donates to new UH tourism scholarship

September 27, 2018

The donation was made in recognition of Gannenmono, the 150th anniversary of Japanese immigration to Hawaiʻi in 2018.

Prestigious Japanese scholarship awarded to two UH students

September 12, 2018

JiaJie He and Yunmi Kim are the only U.S. award recipients of the Monbukagakusho Scholarship from the Japanese government’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

UH Mānoa professor 1st to earn prestigious Japan fellowship

August 2, 2018

Andre Haag is the first UH Mānoa faculty member to receive an international fellowship for research in Japan from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

UH student receives only Kobe graduate fellowship in the nation

June 19, 2018

Vera Hanaoka, a PhD student in Japanese language and linguistics at UH Mānoa, was selected as the Kobe College Corporation Japan Education Exchange Graduate Fellow for 2018–19.