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Update from Team TOMODACHI
October & November 2020
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TOMODACHI-UNIQLO Fellowship Selects Two Students for 2020 Program
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On September, 2020, two participants of the TOMODACHI-UNIQLO Fellowship in 2020 joined the online program orientation.
Under this fellowship, students who aspire to be globally-oriented business managers or fashion designers receive a top U.S. graduate education in business and fashion. After a prestigious selection process, Kazuya Kojima and Natsumi Aoki were chosen as program participants.
Kazuya Kojima studies at Parsons The New School for Design (Parsons). He looks forward to enriching his creative activities through communication with locals in New York from various backgrounds and the understanding and discoveries he will find by putting himself in a new environment. While deepening his understanding of Japanese history and traditional culture, he aims to make clothes that are useful for daily life.
Natsumi Aoki is the first female TOMODACHI-UNIQLO fellow to study at Parsons. She aims to share her studies in the United States with people in Japan using her own perspectives. She would like to learn ways of expression that make the best use of her two different backgrounds, materials and culture, which she has developed through her previous experiences. Read More>>
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TOMODACHI High School Women Career Mentoring Online Program in Tohoku STEP1: Almost 90 Students Challenge Themselves Through Dance and Music Workshop
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On October 24, 25, and November 8, 2020, STEP 1 of the TOMODACHI High School Women Career Mentoring Online Program in Tohoku supported by the TOMODACHI Combini Fund, titled “Global E-Workshop” was held online, attended by almost 90 high school students from Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima Prefectures.
During the program, participants are divided into groups of six to seven students. Fifteen TOMODACHI Alumni, who are university/technical school students and also from the Tohoku region, closely support each of the groups as mentors. In addition, three university students from Tohoku plan and organize the program as Project Assistants (PA).
Before STEP 1, the Opening Session and Team Session were held online on October 4. The participants became acquainted with one another, and after listening to presentations by the PAs and mentors on “My Challenges in High School,” the participants expressed the ways they hope to change and grow through the four-month program. Read More>>
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The Latest on TOMODACHI Programs and Activities
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Junior High and High School Students in Japan and Abroad Present Projects to Realize Their Ideal Futures Online
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Campus Venture Grand Prix Competition 2019 TOMODACHI Award Recipients Participate in Online Training
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On September 11 and 18, and October 2, 2020, the two winning students of the TOMODACHI Social Entrepreneurship Award at the Campus Venture Grand Prix Competition joined three training sessions online. The TOMODACHI Entrepreneurship Award Program aims to improve the plans of these top student entrepreneurs in Japan through pitch meetings with business founders and investors in Silicon Valley. Read More>>
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Alumni Look Back on Their TOMODACHI-Mitsui & Co. Leadership Program Experiences and Share the Impact on Their Careers with the Donor in Online Meetings
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On September 23 and 25, 2020, the alumni meeting of the TOMODACHI-Mitsui & Co. Leadership Program was held online and joined by 15 people, including the program alumni. During the meeting, the alumni shared the impact of the program, as well as what they gained from their participation. Read More>>
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Upcoming Programs and Events
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October - December
December 6
December 12 - 13
December 16
December 19 - 20
January 30 - 31
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TOMODACHI Alumni Activities
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TOMODACHI Alumni Regional Framework Theme Event in Kanto Region, Team B: Learning About Sign Language to Realize an Equal Society
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TOMODACHI Alumni Regional Framework Theme Event in Chubu-Hokuriku Region: Learning About Social Isolation Through Support for the Homeless
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TOMODACHI Alumni Regional Framework Theme Event in Kanto Region, Team A: Virtual Food Bank Tour and Recipes to Reduce Food Loss
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TOMODACHI Alumni Regional Framework Theme Event in Kansai-Chugoku-Shikoku Region: Learning About Wild Game from a Hunter to Rethink Food Sustainability
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TOMODACHI Alumni Joined Twenty-First Business Advisory Board Meeting Featuring Mr. Masaaki Tanaka, Chairman, President and CEO of Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd.
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Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni
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For this interview, we spoke with Colin Timmerman, an alumnus of the TOMODACHI Daiwa House Student Conference V in Chicago in 2017 and the 2018 USJC Annual Conference in Tokyo as a TOMODACHI Youth Leader Participant. He currently serves as the Legislative Assistant handling foreign affairs and national security issues for Congressman Ted Yoho (Florida, District 3), the Ranking Member for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia. Read More>>
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Kokomi Watanabe is an alumna of the 9th U.S. Embassy-Keio SFC-TOMODACHI Entrepreneurship Seminar and participated in the study tour to Silicon Valley as the member of the winning team in February 2020. She is originally from Kanagawa Prefecture and lives close to the sea and its fish. She once saw a news story on fish eating plastics in the ocean and decided to work with companies to develop plastic bags made up of materials that repel fish. In 2019, she participated in the 7th High School Business Plan Grand Prix and received second prize. Read More>>
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Intern, U.S.-Japan Council (Japan) & TOMODACHI Initiative (remote)
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The U.S.-Japan Council (Japan) and the TOMODACHI Initiative are seeking unpaid interns. U.S.-Japan Council (Japan) and TOMODACHI offer an exciting environment for interns to be exposed to non-profit, corporate, and government fields. Responsibilities for interns include creating and drafting documents, translation, website management, social media management, newsletter development support, public speaking, communication with program participants, designing presentations and posters, and event planning.
For more information and to apply, click here.
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*Important Announcement Regarding the Newsletter: Due to the postponement or cancellation of various 2020 TOMODACHI programs during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, our newsletter will now be delivered every two months. The next edition will be out at the end of January 2021, as a combined issue for December and January.
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