2017 Grant Ceremony – Dec. 12, 2017

2017 JBSD Foundation Grant Ceremony was held on December 12, 2017.  JBSD Foundation are very proud of being able to help the community, but all was possible only because of our members’ kind and generous support. 2017 Grant Awardees US & Japan Relations 1 Ann Arbor Public Schools-Hikone Ann Arbor Educational Exchange Program 2 Clinton Township – Yasu Cultural Exchange …

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

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 & …