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After a successful debut at George Mason University in Virginia in 2010, CEPEX is proud to be sponsoring the 3rd Annual Japan Studies Award in 2012. The pool of candidates for the 2012 award promises to grow, making the benefits of winning even more prestigious. The goals of this contest are to support young future […]

August 1st JETAADC members joined a student delegation from Hitachi City, Japan at the Newseum. Nineteen students and two teachers traveled to Washington, DC for a week filled with sightseeing and cultural exchange activities. The Newseum event included the 19 students and 2 teachers from Hitachi City, 4 employees of Hitachi’s DC office, 7 JETAADC […]

Meg recently returned from her Japan trip and detailed her experience in the following post. Everyone has dreams. Some are achievable, some are our in our wildest fantasies, and some you just need a little push to help you take a flying leap. That is precisely what the Sojitz CEPEX Tokyo internship opportunity did for […]

Sightseeing with Yuri By Meg Pfeifle During the second part of the DC Sojitz internship I was able to spend the day with Yuri Amano, a pharmaceutical student from Tokyo. She was here for a one week trip with the Rotary Club and was staying with various home-stay families and touring Washington D.C. We met […]

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Second Annual CEPEX Japan Studies Award.  We were impressed by the variety and quality of the numerous submissions we received.  After careful consideration, we narrowed down the applicants to three finalists: Tracy Kline, Lissett Medrano and Megan Pfeifle.  Our selection criteria for this year’s winner took into account the […]

Those interested in applying for the 2nd Annual CEPEX Japan Studies Award may be wondering if the tragic earthquake and tsunami that Japan experienced on March 11th has affected the program or its award, which includes a trip to Japan, given everything that has been going on since 3/11. The CEPEX executive officers would like […]

George Mason University student Kaloyan Kostov recently returned from a ten day trip to Japan as the inaugural winner of the CEPEX Japan Studies Award. Kaloyan began his trip with a brief internship at the Sojitz Research Institute in Tokyo where he drafted a report on the Asia Development Bank. On a visit to the […]

CEPEX Japan Studies Award winner Kaloyan Kostov started his internship at the Washington D.C. office of Sojitz Corporation of America this week. Between visits to Capitol Hill to attend congressional hearings and going to events at local think tanks, Kaloyan has been gathering data for an in-depth research project. The two week internship in Washington, […]

Thank you  applicants for showing interest in the inaugural CEPEX Japan Studies Award. We received a lot of projects and were impressed by the variety and quality of the research papers. We finally narrowed the submissions down to three finalists. The two runners up for this year are Catherine Nguyen and Dirk Macorol. Catherine wrote […]