On August 21, 2020, Mr. Hisao INAGAKI arrived in Seattle to assume the post of Consul General of Japan in Seattle. Consul General Inagaki joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1985.  After serving as Director of Internet Public Relations Division, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), he was appointed as Consul General of

Ian L. Smith (MA 2020) is a recent graduate from the Jackson School of International Studies (Japan Studies). We asked him about his time at the UW, as well as what advice he has for incoming students. Why did you choose the JSIS Japan Studies Program? I have always known that UW’s Japan program is

The Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle has announced that the 2021 MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship Application window is now open. Graduate research, undergraduate study, and specialized training scholarships are available (U.S. citizens only) and benefits include a monthly stipend, travel to/from Japan, and exemption of school fees for entrance examination, matriculation, and tuition. Qualified candidates

Japanese Language and Literature Ph.D. student Ross Henderson has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship for study in Japan. Twenty-two UW students and alumni were awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships for the 2020-21 academic year, joining about 1,900 students and recent graduates from around the country to study and teach abroad, once and if international travel resumes.

With the pandemic has come a break in most everyone’s routine. We reached out to some of our students and alumni to see what that break looks like in their part of the world. As expected, people are responding to the evolving situation with flexibility and adaptation.  Not only the UW is teaching coursework on-line,

The UW has announced a $6 million gift from the Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation to the East Asia Library. In recognition of this gift, the library will be renamed the Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi East Asia Library. In announcing the gift, Dan Asher of the Tateuchi Foundation said that more than the

On November 3, 2019, the Government of Japan announced that Dr. Donald C. Hellmann, Professor Emeritus of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in recognition of his contributions in promoting academic exchanges and mutual

Justin Jesty, associate professor of Japanese language and literature, was recently awarded the 2019 ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) Book Prize for his book titled Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan (2018). In assessing the work, ASAP wrote “A virtuosic study of the intersection of art and politics,

Onur Kanan (MA 2017) participated at the 2019 Y20 Summit, which is a youth summit of G20 countries, in Tokyo May 25 – 30. He was elected as one of two Turkish delegates to attend. Forty delegates from 20 countries gathered to discuss three topics: “The Future of Work”, “International Business”, and “Business and the

Read Architect’s Newspaper article by Professor Ken Tadashi Oshima, co-chair of the UW Japan Studies Program.  Prof. Oshima was in Versailles, France for the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize award ceremony where Arata Isozaki was honored for his lifetime achievement in architecture.  “When I was old enough to begin an understanding of the world,” writes Isozaki,