shigahs

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