Activities And Accomplishments

. : Affiliations

Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation

• Japan-America Society provides administrative support
• provides scholarships to American graduate students from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) to study in Japan and to Japanese graduate students to study at UHM
• 115 scholars through the 2004 class
• Emperor and Empress grant private audience to scholars each year
• Scholars also meet with the American Ambassador to Japan
• Society president is also president of CPASF
• CPASF awarded Japan's Foreign Minister's Award in 2000

Ehime Maru Memorial Association

• Owner of the Ehime Maru Memorial in Kakaako Waterfront Park
• Responsible for maintenance of the Memorial
• Promotes relationship between Hawaii and Ehime Prefecture
• Society's president is also president of EMMA
• EMMA awarded Japan's Foreign Minister's Award in 2004

National Association of Japan-America Societies (NAJAS)

• member of NAJAS since its establishment in 1979
• assisted NAJAS as its first chair of the U.S.-Japan Links Committee, a group to establish a computer network for NAJAS (developed concept plan; guided implementation)

Society Japan Representative

• in 1999, then Chair Jean Rolles, appointed Mr. Masato Ikegami the Society's Japan Representative
• Mr. Ikegami, a Japanese businessman, with connections in the U.S., is helping to promote the Society in Japan; assisting by expanding the types of programs to further ties between the people of Hawaii and Japan, i.e., ballroom dancing, bicycling, educational tourism