November 9, 2015 – The TOMODACHI Initiative, which invests in the next generation of Japanese and American leaders, announced new partnerships that will further invest in the next generation Japanese and American Leaders. The announcement was made du...more
November 9, 2015 — During the TOMODACHI Reception at the U.S.-Japan Council Annual Conference held November 9-10, the TOMODACHI Initiative*1 (TOMODACHI) (President, Irene Hirano Inouye) administered by the U.S.-Japan Council and invests in the ...more
Tokyo, Japan, October 22, 2015 – The Prudential Foundation and the TOMODACHI Initiative are pleased to announce the inaugural “TOMODACHI Generation Summit” to be launched on November 8, 2015. Funded by The Prudential Foundation through a grant first ...more
– Recruiting for 2016 Scholarship Begins Shortly – Suntory Holdings Limited (Suntory) has partnered with the TOMODACHI Initiative to award music scholarships via the “TOMODACHI Suntory Music Scholarship Fund” as part of Suntor...more
July 14, 2015 — The TOMODACHI Initiative and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (“Honda”) are pleased to announce the second year of the “TOMODACHI Honda Cultural Exchange Program” in which high school students from Iwate prefecture travel to California for...more
The TOMODACHI Initiative and SoftBank are pleased to announce that 100 Japanese high school participants have been selected to participate in the “TOMODACHI Summer 2015 SoftBank Leadership Program.” This program, fully funded by SoftBank, will send h...more
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies in Japan* (Headquarters.: Tokyo Chiyoda-ku, hereafter “Johnson & Johnson”) and The TOMODACHI Initiative are pleased to announce that the participants for the “TOMODACHI J&J Disaster Nursing Training P...more
From April 10-12, 2015, the TOMODACHI Daiwa House Student Leadership Conference will hold it’s first conference with 30 university students from Japan and the United States in Silicon Valley, California. The focus of this conference is entrepreneur...more
~Japanese High School Students from Tohoku Given Opportunity to Study in California~ The TOMODACHI Initiative (hereafter “TOMODACHI”) and SoftBank Corp. (hereafter “SoftBank”) are pleased to announce the “TOMODACHI Summer 2015 SoftBank Leadership Pro...more