The Follow-Up Seminar of the TOMODACHI Honda Global Leadership Program 2019 took place from February 15 to 16, 2020 in Tokyo. The high school students who gathered from across Japan had participated in various kinds of leadership workshops, from the pre-departure program in June to the U.S. trip in the summer.

On the first day of the Follow-Up Seminar, participants discussed and presented on the diverse in leadership they encountered with the people and friends they met during their trip to the U.S.. The next day, participants took part in a collage workshop where they learned to visually express themselves through images. Later, they shared what they learned from the program’s Power of Dreams Cycle. Read More>>

Applications Open for the TOMODACHI U.S.-Embassy Go for Gold Leadership Program.

The TOMODACHI U.S.-Embassy Go for Gold Leadership Program is designed to play a crucial role in building a “TOMODACHI Generation” of creative and innovative leaders whose interests lie in the sports industry, and who possess the globally-oriented skills and mindsets needed to thrive and make contributions to the industry.
 
The program will bring up to ten (10) Japanese college students to the United States to for a two-week study program in New York city and Los Angeles.

-Study Tour in Los Angeles and New York in the United States (August 28 to September 14, 2020, including travel dates).


Application Deadline: Sunday, April 12 at 23:59 Japan Standard Time

For application information and program details, click here.

Applications are now open for the 2020 TOMODACHI-Mitsui & Co. Leadership Program!  

Entering its eighth year, this exchange program provides participants with unique access to leaders in the U.S.-Japan arena and the opportunity to broaden their perspectives to enhance their professional fields. Ten American and ten Japanese young professionals will travel to one another’s countries for one week to engage as a group and meet with established, up-and-coming leaders from the business and government sectors.  

Application Deadline:
Thursday, May 7, 2020 (for American applicants)
Thursday, May 21, 2020 (for Japanese applicants)

For application information and program details, click here.

Applications are now open for the 9th TOMODACHI MUFG International Exchange Program!  

This program is designed for Japan's next generation of leaders, to deepen the mutual understanding between the United States and Japan. It offers homestay opportunities and visits to various cultural sites and organizations, which may lead to future experience with study abroad, work overseas, or more involvement in international exchanges.

Up to twenty middle and high school students from the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake (Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures) will be selected to participate in this program. Participants will visit Los Angeles, California and its suburbs as part of the two-week program from August 6 to August 19, 2020.  

Application Deadline: Friday, April 17, 2020
For application information and program details, click here.

Applications are now open for the TOMODACHI Disability Leadership Program in America 2020.

This program provides young Japanese people with disabilities a four-month training experience in leadership and advocacy in Boston, Massachusetts.
 
This four-month long program engages trainees in a spectrum of activities, including an intensive orientation to the program and life in Boston, an individualized internship with a disability-focused government or community organization, weekly leadership seminars, and English language training.

 
Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 31, 2020　
For application information and 2020 program details, click here.

Applications are now open for the TOMODACHI Summer 2020 SoftBank Leadership Program.

Launched in 2012, this program is now entering its ninth year. The program will take place from July 17, 2020 to August 8, 2020 (dates are tentative) and send 100 Japanese high school students from the disaster-affected prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima to the University of California, Berkeley, for an intensive three-week workshop focused on community-based projects and leadership development.
 
Application Deadline: Sunday, March 29, 2020　
For application information and program details, click here.

Applications are now open for the TOMODACHI Honda Global Leadership Program.

With an expanded target that includes high school students and five-year junior technical college (“Kosen”) students from any part of Japan are eligible to apply. During this year’s program, selected students will have the opportunity to travel for about two weeks to Torrance, California and Marysville, Ohio, home to Honda’s headquarters and manufacturing base in the United States from August 15 to 29, 2020. Through exposure to American society and culture via interactions with local high school students and homestays, the Japanese students and the Americans they meet will deepen their mutual understanding of one another. 

Application Deadline:
Thursday, March 19, 2020 (Mail applications)
Saturday, March 21, 2020 (Online applications)
For application information and program details, click here.

The TOMODACHI-UNIQLO Fellowship is a scholarship program managed by the U.S.-Japan Council TOMODACHI Initiative. This scholarship program supports those who aspire to become globally-oriented business executives or fashion designers as they study abroad at graduate design schools in the United States. 

Eligible applicants are those with Japanese nationality who have been accepted to either the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), State University of New York, or Parsons The New School for Design, School of Fashion (Parsons). The scholarship provides up to $90,000 for FIT, and up to $150,000 for Parsons.

Application guidelines are available through each school, and please apply directly to the respective school.
For more details and inquiries, please click here.