Ayako Betty Murakami Scholarship for Japan Studies

This scholarship is open to undergraduate and graduate students who will be enrolled in the coming academic year. One or two scholarships, in the amount of $500 - 1000 are awarded annually. Selection will be based on academic merit, especially in course work focused on the study of Japan and its language, and on financial need.

Undergraduate majors in Asian Studies (Japan Option) and in Japanese Language and Literature, or pre-majors planning on either major, and graduate students in Japan Studies (JSIS) and Japanese Language and Literature (Asian L&L), are eligible. Recipient must be sophomore level or higher during the coming academic year, and enrolled at the University of Washington in that year.

Application and deadline information available via web, at
http://jsis.washington.edu/advise/funding/
 

JSIS Funding Resources for a list of JSIS school-wide funding resources for undergraduate and graduate students

JSIS Career Services Internship Scholarship for assistance funding unpaid or under-paid international-focued internships

Other Scholarship Sources

• Blakmore Foundation for advanced Asian language study abroad 

• Cross Cultural Institute Graduate Fellowships Program (for one year study in Japan)

• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) - graduate studies

• Fulbright-IIE - variety of grant opportunities, including comprehensive Fulbright grants and Fulbright travel grants. Additional grants are available on a country-by-country basis, including opportunities in teaching and business.

• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program provides opportunities for graduate students to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies.

• Japan Foundation sponsors a variety of grant programs relating to the exchange of persons, support for Japanese studies and Japanese-language instruction, exchanges in the arts, and assistance for media-related projects such as publications, translation, and film or video production.

• Japanese Government Scholarships

• Mellon Dissertation Fellowships (AAR) - support for dissertation research in humanities using sources in the original language.

• Nambu Foundation Summer Internship Program provides summer internships in Japanese companies and funds students to take them.