Michigan - Shiga High School
Student Exchange
H.S. teen exchange | good homestay guide for Japan | "memory book" template
Links to help young people thinking of going to Japan, currently in Japan, or back from Japan.
Michigan - Shiga connections
Sister cities | JCMU (Japan Center for Michigan Universities) | Teen exchange | Mi-shigan leads
Biwako song (medody; with vocals) | video - 2004 tv_news |
Midwest Japan Seminar, host in Michigan in rotation
Japan Festival in Saginaw (September), http://www.japaneseculturalcenter.org
Michigan-Japan Professionals Association, http://www.michiganjapan.org/
Hosting your Japanese friends
Homestay-hosting_advice.doc | cultural experiences to "unpack" together
Language learning (Japanese as a Foreign Language) AND life in Japan
Immersion language camp in northern MN, http://concordialanguagevillages.org >Mori no Ike
Self-study of Japanese (links and advice)
Pictures of 1897 Japan | road signs to know; more signs |
Online broadcasts: Yomiuri News Stream | MBS Radio News Archives | Radio Nippon | Real Net News
Orientation, "At Home in Japan" | Checklists for language & culture learning (pre/in-country/returnee)
Shops, donna-mise.mp3 | Notices/signs, hyoji.mp3 | Time (one day's routine) jikan-ichinichi.mp3
Countries sampled, kuniguni.mp3 | Cost of goods, okane-kaimono.mp3 | Fish & seafood, sakana.mp3
Fruit, sukina-kudamono.mp3 |Vegetables, sukina-yasai.mp3 [as recorded by non-native speaker]
Other programs taking teens to Japan
Youth For Understanding-Japan (YFU) - many scholarships for summer; full school year | AFS
LABO (twinned with 4-H in the USA)
Immersion language camp in northern MN, http://concordialanguagevillages.org >Mori no Ike
College programs in Japan
Temple University is a US university with their own campus in Tokyo, www.tuj.ac.jp
Sophia University in Tokyo through CIEE
http://ciee.org/program_search/program_detail.aspx?program_id=55
Nanzan University in Nagoya through IES
https://www.iesabroad.org/IES/Programs/Japan/japan.html
Nanzan University, www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/English/cjs/ [direct enrollment]
Obirin University www.obirin.ac.jp
Ritsumeikan, www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/international_programs/skp/index.shtml
Seinan Gakuin University is also good, www.seinan-gu.ac.jp/eng/exchange/financial.html
www.studyabroad.ku.edu/~osa/programs/shortterm/japan_hiratsuka.shtml
See also, Association of Teachers of Japanese Bridging Project for Study Abroad in Japan
www.colorado.edu/ealc/atj/Bridging/abroad.html
Search engine for study abroad (by country), www.iiepassport.org
Career paths connected to Japan experiences (what Japan alumni are doing now)
[send your story steps to G P Witteveen, sjmiAThomail DOTcom]
G. Witteveen's story: first to Japan as assistant English teacher after college, then again with grad school (Anthropology of Japan); researcher at the National Museum of Ethnology (nr. Osaka); education outreach coordinator at MSU and later U-M. Life-long interest in the changing Japanese society & language.
updated 2008-11-12... created 2008-03-07