JICUF Program Director Mark Flanigan traveled to Seattle in early November to participate in the autumn National College Fair. He received outstanding recruitment support and teamwork from our Seattle ICU alumni, who also partnered with JICUF to organize a local dinner at Red Lantern Restaurant for alumni and friends of Japan.
Yuki Inoue is an ICU alumna from the class of 1993 currently living in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Southern California ICU Alumni chapter and proud mother of two sons. She agreed to share a bit about her time at ICU, experience studying abroad in South Korea and life in general.
Following a brief trip back to ICU’s verdant campus for a Board of Trustees meeting, members of the Japan ICU Foundation staff were joined by ICU’s Dean of International Affairs, Shaun K. Malarney, for a special joint-recruitment trip to Honolulu in September.
Miho Yamagishi (ICU ’14) was in the U.S for one year through ICU’s exchange program with Rutgers University. As part of her internship at the Japan ICU Foundation, Miho interviewed Mr. Tsuyuki (ICU ’57) about his life in New York and about his time at ICU. Since they both have strong interests in art and design and conducted the interview inside the Modern Museum of Art.
Milena Naitoh: What was your goal when applying for the Peace Bell Scholarship to study at ICU for 4 years? Nolan Bunes: My main goal when applying was to lessen the financial burden on my parents and on myself with going to school in another country. In fact, without the Peace Bell Scholarship I don’t think I would have been able to study at ICU in the first place. MN: What made you choose ICU? NB: I chose ICU because I had a strong desire to become fluent in Japanese and experience everyday life in Japan, ever since I started taking Japanese in high school. In addition, every year, admissions recruiters from […]
David Leslie is a Public Defender in Castle Rock, Colorado He is a graduate of the American School in Japan (ASIJ), Tufts University, NYU Law School and – not least of all – was a One Year Regular (OYR) at ICU In 2005. David was kind enough to take some time on his Sunday afternoon to give short interview on what it meant to study abroad at ICU and tell us a bit about his life now.
Megan Dick, a graduate of Pomona College (’12), spent six months studying abroad at ICU from July-December 2010. In this interview, Megan talks about her time at ICU and how her life-changing experiences in Japan shaped her outlook and career.
In 1964, ICU became the University of California Education Abroad Program’s first partner institution in Asia. Since the program’s historic first year, over 800 ICU students have studied at one of the many UC campuses, and more than 1,100 UC students have studied at ICU. Today, the partnership continues to be just as vital as both partners look ahead to the next 50 years. To celebrate this 50-year collaboration and discuss how best to carry out another 50 years of such exchange, ICU held a 3-day anniversary event from 24 to 26 June, welcoming many UC administrators, alumni and friends to campus to hold a variety of activities.
Sometimes small events happen which we know we will vividly remember for the rest of our lives. Such an event happened for me on May 24, 2013, when I found myself in the small circle of a support group for disaster survivors, listening to eight courageous young women share the traumas they had experienced during and after the triple disasters—earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear—in northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. It was incredibly moving to witness these stories and emotions that had never before been shared. The young women were amazed to learn that others too felt as they did. Immediately, they moved to support each other, in a deepening bond. It was sacred space indeed…
Dr. Yasuyuki “Yash” Owada is a member of ICU’s first graduating class in 1957, and currently the chair of the Japan ICU Foundation’s board of trustees. In this interview, Dr. Yash talked with us about his life at ICU and gave his message to current students.
