Press Releases

Three Young Japanese Leaders with Disabilities Selected for the TOMODACHI Disability Leadership Program in America – Working Toward a Community of Independence and Mutual Cooperation –

As a continued effort to cultivate the next generation of leaders, the TOMODACHI Initiative, a public-private partnership between the U.S.-Japan Council and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, is initiating the TOMODACHI Disability Leadership Program in Ameri...more

TOMODACHI Toshiba Science & Technology Leadership Academy Brings Together Students and Teachers from Japan and the United States

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502, Toshiba) and the TOMODACHI Initiative (TOMODACHI), a public-private partnership between the U.S.-Japan Council and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, announced that the TOMODACHI Toshiba Science & Technology Leadership A...more

2016 Scholars Selected for the “TOMODACHI Suntory Music Scholarship Fund”

Suntory partnered with TOMODACHI to establish this scholarship fund in 2013. For three years starting in 2014, the program provides scholarships to Japanese students for three music schools in the United States, with preference given to students from...more

Microsoft Japan partners with the TOMODACHI Initiative and Launches a Program that Invests in Next Generation Global Leaders

Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. (Microsoft Japan) announced the launch of a new partnership with the TOMODACHI Initiative (TOMODACHI), a public-private partnership led by the U.S.-Japan Council and U.S. Embassy in Tokyo that invests in the next generation ...more

Morgan Stanley Renews “Building the TOMODACHI Generation” Program as Sole Sponsor

~ ‘Morgan Stanley Ambassadors Program’ to Invite University Students with High Aspirations ~ TOKYO, July 11, 2016 –Morgan Stanley Japan Holdings Co., Ltd. announced today that it has become the sole sponsor of “Building the TOMODACHI Generation”, a l...more

“2017 TOMODACHI Honda Cultural Exchange Program” Sends High School Students from Fukushima to Los Angeles for a Cultural Exchange

July 1, 2016 – The TOMODACHI Initiative and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (“Honda”) are pleased to announce the third year of the “TOMODACHI Honda Cultural Exchange Program” in which high school students from Fukushima prefecture travel to California f...more

One Hundred Participants Selected for “TOMODACHI Summer 2016 SoftBank Leadership Program” at University of California, Berkeley

～High School Students Affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake Participate in a Leadership Program in California～ The TOMODACHI Initiative* (TOMODACHI) and the SoftBank Group Corp. (SoftBank Group) are pleased to announce that 100 Japanese high sc...more

MetLife Continues its Support for the TOMODACHI MetLife Women’s Leadership Program, Fostering Women as Global Leaders through 2020

– Currently Recruiting Women Aspiring to be Global Leaders – MetLife Japan has partnered with the U.S.-Japan Council since 2013 in support of the TOMODACHI MetLife Women’s Leadership Program, and has decided to extend its financial suppor...more