Since 1990, the Blakemore Foundation, with the support of The Freeman Foundation, has awarded over $18 million in grants to college graduates, graduate students and young professionals for an academic year abroad in full-time intensive language study. The fellowships cover tuition and a stipend for related educational expenses, basic living costs and transportation. Superior candidates

Meet the JSIS Japan Studies MA program graduates by reading short interviews with them, below. Tiancui Liu Tiancui came from China where his major at the undergraduate level was international politics. He is interested in Japan’s political party system as well as the change in status of the emperor after the Second World War. Read Tiancui’s

Please Introduce yourself. My name is James Darnbrook and I am a second year MA International Studies – Japan Program student from the UK. I completed my undergraduate education at Loughborough University in the UK with a BA in History/Politics. After living, studying and working in Japan for several years I came to the UW. My areas of interest

Please introduce yourself My name is Mackenzie McMillan and I am a second year student in the Japan Studies MA Program. Although originally from Wisconsin, I completed my undergraduate studies at Loyola University New Orleans and at Chukyo University in Nagoya, Japan. Before attending the University of Washington I worked as an Assistant Language Teacher

Please introduce yourself. My name is Tiancui (Paul) Liu and I’m a 23 year-old international student from China. I used to be a super fan of Japanese manga and anime but a consistent interest has always been politics and the culture of Japan.   Why did you choose the Japan Studies Program? I graduated from

Please introduce yourself. I’m a PhD candidate in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at UW. I came here after doing and MA at Portland State University, and hope to someday become a professor of Japanese language or literature. My passions are teaching, humor, canoeing, pickling, my cats, my dogs, my fish, cooking, and

An article by Henry M. Jackson graduate student Dylan J. Plung was published April 15, 2018 in The Asia-Pacific Journal.  Plung explores a previously unexamined context to the firebombing of Japan. Analysis of the decisions leading up to construction and military testing conducted in 1943 at the Japanese Village at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah

Please introduce yourself. My name is Devin (they/them/theirs) and I am a 22 year-old Seattle native in my second year of the Japan Studies MA program. My hobbies include knitting, writing, and video gaming. よろしくお願いします。   Why did you choose the Japan Studies program? I chose the Japan Studies MA program after graduating in 2016

Japan Studies Ph.D. Candidate Josh Williams has been selected as a finalist for this year’s Presidential Management Fellowship Program. Josh’s primary research interest is the connection between Japanese politics and the Internet. This includes both how Japanese politicians use the internet for political campaigning and how Japanese citizens use the internet to connect to politics. The PMF Program