Tohoku students participating in the TOMODACHI Summer 2012 English Language Study Program visited the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo for a brief orientation on July 27th. They left on July 30th for Sandy Springs, Maryland....more
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed America’s commitment to cultivating the future leaders of Japan and the United States during the TOMODACHI Youth Leadership Dialogue on July 8th.Twenty-one Japanese and American students attend...more
On July 4, 2012, over 2,000 guests attended the Independence Day Celebration at the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Tokyo, where the TOMODACHI Initiative was a major theme....more
With the help of the non-profit organization Frontier Minamisoma, TOMODACHI was able to bring 20 middle school students from Fukushima prefecture to the NBA Youth Camp that was held in Tokyo from June 15-17, 2012.The players worked on their basketbal...more
The National Basketball Association (NBA), TOMODACHI, and the United Sports Foundation held a basketball clinic for middle children in the disaster-affected city of Shiogama (near Sendai) on June 12, 2012. Students at Shiogama Daisan Junior High Scho...more
Members of the New York-based Orpheus Chamber Orchestra conducted a music workshop for 100 students at Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture on May 31, 2012. For more information, click here...more
High school students from Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, California visited Ishinomaki Girls’ School on May 30, 2012, as part of their trip to Japan....more
TOMODACHI was at the Japan premier of the new movie Men In Black 3 on May 8 in Tokyo. Young people from the Tohoku region, volunteers who went to Tohoku, and US Navy personnel who served in Operation Tomodachi got…...more
