Press Releases
NBA, TOMODACHI, and United Sports Foundation to Hold Basketball Clinic for Tohoku Youth as Part of Basketball without Borders Asia
June 8, 2012 – The National Basketball Association (NBA), TOMODACHI, and the United Sports Foundation (USF) announced today that they will hold a basketball clinic as part of Basketball without Borders Asia for boys and girls from areas heavily...more
New Strategic Partnership to Bring Innovation, Recovery to Tohoku
June 4, 2012 –The partnership launched at an April 25 event at Stanford University supports entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas for the area affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. Leaders of this new initiative hope to...more
Lady Gaga Teacup Raises 6M yen for TOMODACHI Arts Fellowship
May 18, 2012 – The TOMODACHI Initiative, the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Universal Music LLC, and Lady Gaga are proud to announce that the Internet auction of Lady Gaga’s “We Pray for Japan” teacup has raised over six million yen...more
Lady Gaga TOMODACHI Auction to Support Artists
April 30, 2012 – Just ten weeks after the devastating earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that hit Japan in March 2011, Lady Gaga arrived in Tokyo. In an MTV Video Music Aid Japan-sponsored press event with U.S. Ambassador to Japan...more
Five Major Japanese Companies Join as Key Partners in TOMODACHI Initiative
April 18, 2012 – Five leading Japanese companies today become the newest partners in the TOMODACHI Initiative, the bilateral public- private partnership launched in 2011 by the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and the U.S.-Japan Council....more
Tohoku Children Visit Yokosuka Naval Base
March 30, 2012 – Twenty-one children from the disaster-affected city of Rikuzentakata in northeastern Japan will visit Yokosuka Naval Base on March 30-April 1, 2012 for a special homestay event that will include sports activities. This activity...more
US Women’s Soccer Team Conducts Clinic in Tohoku
March 26, 2012 – As part of the “Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative,” the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and U.S. Soccer announced that the U.S. Women’s National Soccer ...more
TOMODACHI, MLB Step Up to the Plate for Japan
March 26, 2012 – The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and TOMODACHI are pleased to welcome the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland Athletics to Japan from March 23-30, 2012. The visit highlights the partnership between Major League Baseball (MLB), the MLB Pl...more
