SILC LSS is now hiring a JPN tutor for Fall 2025-Spring 2026!

Spring 2022 nomination is open!

Inductees in the Fall 2021 Graduation

Please join us in congratulating the five students for their induction to the National Japanese Honor Society in the fall of 2021 graduation.  Their hard work and excellence in Japanese study in SILC are acknowledged nationally. 

• Joshua Norris  (Major: Japanese)

• David Blythe (Major: Japanese)

• Alison Scott (Major:  Japanese, Minor: Linguistics)

• Yumeng Chi  (Major:  English Literature, Minor:  Japanese)

• Yudong Liu  (Major: Asian Studies, Minor: Japanese)

Lecture by Dr. Jae DiBello Takeuchi (Clemson University)

Date:  Friday, February 18, 2021

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.  (in Zoom)

*Free and open to the community

The Japan Information & Culture Center (JICC) co-presents a special 2022 Winter Film Fest! Four 72-hour virtual weekend screenings will be held throughout December 2021 to January 2022. 

Dates: Dec. 3-6, Dec. 17-20, Jan. 21-24, and Jan. 28-31  *Registration required

Phoenix Sister Cities seek Phoenix residents to teach in the sister city Himeji, Japan as Assistant Language Teachers of English.  The deadline of the application:  February 18, 2022. 

Online job fair for foreign international students and bilingual Japanese nationals

Date:  November 5, Friday, 5:00 p.m. -- 2:00 a.m. (PST)

*Free admission/ Registration required

Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021

Time:  7:00pm-8:00pm (PT)

*Free virtual webinar by the Japan Foundation, L. A.  *Registration required 

• Date & Time: November 7, 2021    5:30 p.m. ~ [AZ time] (November 8, 9:30 a.m. in JST)  *Registration required.

Date: Friday, October 15th, 4:00pm-6:00pm

Date: Wednesday, October 13 – Thursday, October 14

Date:  Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Time:  7:00pm-8:00pm (PT).           *Free admission

日本博(にほんはく)--Exploring Arts of Japan from Antiquity to the Present-- opens on August 17, 2021  

Check out the various job opportunities through the recruitment company PASONA and Active 8.  Click the tabs at the bottom of the document to view the various positions.

Several scholarships are offered through the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT)!

Deadlines are approaching for this great opportunity!

There are job openings for professional full-time positions.  Some of them require Japanese language skills.  

"Scenic Views and Supernatural Begins: New Themes in 19th-century Ukiyo-e Prints" 

• Date:  Mon. 4/19, 2021

• Time:  6:00-7:00 (PDT)

• Free *Registration required (Recording will be available the following week.)

Inductees in the Spring 2021 Graduation

Please join us in congratulating the five students for their induction to the National Japanese Honor Society in the spring of 2021 graduation.  Their hard work and excellence in Japanese study in SILC are acknowledged nationally. 

• Joseph Curley (Major: Japanese)

• Allison Secrist (Major: Japanese and Anthropology)

• Taylor Kephart (Major:  Interdisciplinary Studies--Design Studies and Japanese)

• Jacqueline Marquez (Major:  Art, Minor:  Japanese)

• Kyle Runge (Major: Linguistics, Minor: Japanese)

SILC Learning Support Services (LSS) provides tutoring sessions for the school's various language programs.

Tutoring takes place in Zoom by appointment.  Make an appointment through the tutoring calendar below.

Students will have the opportunity to explore the possibilities of study abroad by meeting with Study Abroad Office staff and the faculty who lead study abroad programs.

There are six Japanese exchange programs.  Join the virtual event and learn more about the programs, scholarship opportunities,  and more!  

Special lecture about Kansai-ben (Kansai dialect) via Zoom by Kyoto Consortium for Japanese studies.  

• Date:  Sun. 11/1, Tue.11/3 or Wed.11/4. (The content is the same for all dates.)

• Time:  8:00-9:00 (EST)

• Language:  Japanese (English if needed)

*2nd yr. JPN or above preferred.  Registration required.  Sign-up by 5:00 pm on Wed. 10/28.  

Date: October 22, 2020

Time:  7:00-8:30 pm   (EST)

Online seminar by Mr. Hiromichi Takahashi (director/producer of "Doko Demo Issho"; co-creator of Toro [aka the Sony Cat]) and Ms. Alexis Broadhead (Floridian 3D animator).  

*Video streaming, no registration required

The Terasaki Nibei Foundation is sponsoring a video contest open to all Japanese learners. Students at all levels and in all learning situations are invited to submit a 10-12-minute video or a 10-15-minute script or story that can serve as the basis for a short film on the theme of “What Is Japan for You”. 

Deadline: January 31, 2021.

The Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) Program provides overseas foreign language instruction and cultural enrichment experiences in 14 different languages including Japanese.  

Deadline:  November 17, 2020

This is unpaid internship by assisting undergraduate students at IC located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, during April 2021 - January 2022.

1:30-2:30pm, Wednesdays

LL 165, https://asu.zoom.us/j/96734045553

Every week throughout the semester

The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the International House of Japan (I-House) are currently seeking three Summer Interns for short-term (not to exceed two weeks) internships during late July-August 2020 to coincide with the Olympic Games in Tokyo. [Deadline: February 17,2020]

Application Deadline: 2/5/2020

Nanzan University (2020-2021) [Application deadline: 1/25/2019]

• • 80,000 yen/month for two semesters or 40,000 yen/month for one semester

Hiroshima Shudo University (2020-2021) [Application deadline: 2/1/2019]

• • Monthly stipend

Summer Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Award [Application deadline: 1/31/2019]

• • $2,500-$5,000 stipend for summer tuition

All of the following courses fulfill general education requirements in Global Awareness (G) and Humanities, Arts, and Design (HU).

• • JPN/SLC394: Zen & JPN Culture, Suhara

  • JPN/SLC394: Religious Practice in Modern Japan [Online, Session B], Suhara

  • JPN/SLC494: Buddhist Meditation in Asia [Online, Session A], Suhara

Sat. Feb. 22 & Sun. Feb. 23  

Steele Indian School Park, Phoenix

• • The Haiku Expo is open. 

  • Volunteer needed!  (No experience is necessary.)

Speaker:  Toshihiro Nakayama, Ph.D., Professor, American Politics and Foreign Policy,  Keio University, Japan

Date & Time:  November 18, 2019,  4:30pm – 6:00pm  (Reception follows)

Location:  Alumni Lounge, Memorial Union  (MU202)   *Open to public

Date & Time:  Friday, November 1, 2019,  5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Location:  Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix (1125 N 3rd Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85003)

*Free admission to the Garden and the Market at 5-8 p.m. on Nov. 1

Showing on:  Saturday, November 2nd, 2019  at 11:55am.

Location:  Harkins Shea 14: Theater 1 (7354 East Shea Boulevard, Scottsdale, AZ 85260)

１０月１日 （火）  午後4時〜5時   LL165

Job and Internship opportunities at Kyocera International Inc.  Looking for students with an engineering degree as well as Japanese communication skills.  Meeting with the company representatives [appointment only]:

10月7日（月） 午後3時〜4時   LL548

Career information session:  

• Saturday, September 21

• 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

• Union Stage at the Lower Level, MU