Tokyo Golden Week Trip – Paul R. Keys – Japan 1991
My most memorable Experience in my GARIOA-Fulbright, Nissan Grant, Senior Research Grant, housed at the Japan Women’s University, was a trip via Bullet Train and boat to a Japanese island (forget the name now) a very traditional Ryokan. The trip was arranged by friends in Japan. It featured robes, traditional meals, and a small Kotatsu […]
A Fulbright honeymoon year in Japan & onward – John Hancock – Asia 1975
In 1975, John L. Hancock (1923-2008) received a Fulbright year abroad to offer urban studies at the University of Tokyo & other Japanese schools. His lecturing extended through a Fulbright-supported summer tour of schools across Japan, throughout Asia, & onward to Australia & New Zealand. As his wife — we married within days of departing […]
English Teaching Seminar in Japan – Mitzi Asai Loftus – Japan 1958
A highly successful English Teaching Seminar, planned and set up by Miss Mitzi Asai, for Japanese teachers in the Shizuoka Prefecture was held at Miss Asai host institution on March 1. Assisting Miss Asai, in the well- organized one-day session, were Mr. and Mrs. William E. Norris, Miss Isabel D. Phisterer and Mrs. Edward Kirk. […]
A New Perspective: Exchange Administrator to Exchange Visitor – Leeza Fernand – Japan 2018
I thought that finding out that I got the Fulbright at the same time that I found out that I was pregnant was going to be the most exciting portion of my Fulbright experience. As an immigrant and someone who has been working with study abroad and academic and cultural exchange programs in community colleges […]
Teaching the History of U.S. Foreign Relations During the Invasion of Iraq – Joseph Michael Henning – Japan 2002-03
At Japan’s Tohoku University in 2002-2003, I taught courses on the history of U.S. foreign relations to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. During the break between the fall and spring semesters in March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. I initially had planned to address the 9/11 attacks and U.S. responses to them in the […]
Sea Urchins, Kabuki Theater, and an Ocean of Memories in Japan – Lisanne Winslow – Japan 2009
My 2009 Fulbright experience at the Misaki Marine Biological Station (MMBS), University of Tokyo, was one of the most memorable and transformative experiences of my life. As a marine biologist and cellular immunologist, I worked with renowned marine scientists in a satellite campus situated at the edge of Sagami Bay. The professional experience was stimulating […]
Japan, Up Close and Extremely Shareable – Wendy Weiner – Japan 1985
My Fulbright scholarship filled in all the cracks for what I was not able to learn while studying at Columbia University’s East Asian Institute or while in Japan the year before as an honored guest of the Japanese government. During my first trip, I traveled throughout Japan for the purpose of immersing myself in Japan’s […]
Investigating the Will of the People – Theodore Life Jr – Japan 2003
I was a Fulbright Journalist Scholar in Okinawa, Japan where I researched what I termed the “Will of the Okinawan People” as it related to the US Bases that have been located there since the end of WWII. My Fulbright fellowship time was very rewarding. I was able to interview very prominent Okinawans, writers, professors […]