– Hurricane Harvey Fundraiser is complete –

Our Hurricane Harvey Fundraiser is complete. Thank you very much to everyone who donated to support victims impacted by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. JBSD Foundation raised $19,586.00 total and completed sending the donations to the American Red Cross. JBSD Foundation would like to thank the entire community for their kindness and generosity.

Dear Japan Business Society of Detroit

I am writing to thank you for your generous scholarship. I was very happy and appreciate that I was selected as the recipient of your scholarship. I am an Interdisciplinary Studies major with a concentration on Health and Society and a cognate on Political Science with a premedical track. I am interested in global health issues and getting this scholarship …

Dear Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation leaders,

I’m writing this to thank you for the $500 financial aid that you provided to me to help me through the JCMU program. I was honored to know that I was selected as one of the recipient of your scholarship. I don’t think my experience in Japan would be so rich and colorful if I hadn’t received the scholarship. My …

Dear JBSD Foundation

Thank you so very much for your generosity and stewardship towards my study abroad experience. Without the JBSD Foundation Career/Culture Hybrid Program Scholarship I would not have been able to attend such an amazing study abroad program. Traveling to Japan has changed my entire outlook on life and taught me to appreciate the small aspects in life that much more. …

Japan Center for Michigan Universities (JCMU): Report on the 2015 JBSD Foundation Grant

Culture/Career Hybrid Program (CCHP) Scholarships for Students For this year’s JBSD Foundation grant, JCMU awarded seven scholarships of $500 each to students participating our Culture/Career Hybrid Programs (CCHPs). The CCHP curriculum structure has been awarded the Innovation Award from the University Design Consortium hosted by Arizona State University, and has been recognized for its unique melding of Japanese cultural instruction and …

To the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation

I was one of the recipients of your scholarship to study in one of the hybrid programs through the Japan Center for Michigan Universities. I am studying to become a teacher of Japanese, with a minor in teaching English as a Second Language. This program was incredibly helpful to me, because I got to see, from an outsider’s perspective, how …

Dear Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation

Thank you so much for the scholarship I received. Thanks to that scholarship I had the opportunity to not only learn more about Japan, but also spend more time living there. The experiences I had living in Japan will never be forgotten, and I cherish them every day. Thanks to my time in Japan I now know what I want …

Dear Japan Business Society of Detroit

My name is Canchai Yang, and I am a sophomore at Michigan State University. As a firstgeneration Hmong student, paying for college and study abroad has been difficult. But through the JBSD Culture/Career Hybrid Program Scholarship, I realized that studying abroad was possible, and for that I can’t thank enough for making it possible to attend the 2015 Health & …