Japan Studies students at LaGuardia Community College and a group of young employees at AISIN Cooperation (http://www.aisin-aw.co.jp/en/), a Fortune Global 500 company in Japan, worked on this one-day global/international exchange program.

They worked together to find visual, audible, …

LaGuardia Community College hosted a workshop on the art of etegami (drawing letter) and the Japanese brush art on March 22, 2016. The workshop consisted of a one-hour lecture on etegami and two-hour hands-on and guided activities to create etegami. …

Matsumoto University in the Nagano Prefecture of Japan are recruiting students for their summer study abroad program in Japan (July 25-August 8, 2016). The cost of the program is about $1,250 plus airfare and meals, which will be about additional …

Japanese Ambassador and Consul-General Sumio Kusaka presented LaGuardia Community College with over one hundred books to be used in LaGuardia’s Japanese language classes. The books and plaque were gifts from Japanese First Lady Madame Akie Abe in appreciation of the …

LaGuardia Community College received a commendation from the Consul General of Japan, in New York on May 22, 2014 for its effort for “establishing strong ties between Japan and the U.S.” and for “building a rich Japanese studies program that …

LaGuardia Community College hosted a workshop on Ikebana (flower arrangement) by Mr. Hiroki Ohara, the headmaster of the Ohara School, on Thursday March 6, 2014.

The Ohara School is one of the three largest contemporary ikebana schools – Ikenobo, Ohara, …

Katsura Sunshine, a Japanese-English Rakugo master, performed at LaGuardia Community College on September 30, 2013.

Here is the photo album of the event.

For more information about Japan-related events at LaGuardia Community College, visit https://t-nagano.com/projects/JapaneseProgram/index.html#events.…

Madam Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, visited LaGuardia Community College on September 25, 2013. She observed the Japanese class at LaGuardia and met the participants of the CUNY Kakehashi project, who visited Japan for a week …

A group of Japaense international students at LaGuardia Community College went to Rockaway of Queens, which suffered a devastating damage and loss by Hurricane Sandy. Many Japanese students said that America’s donation and recovery aid for the Tohoku Earthquake in …

The Japaense Program at LaGuardia Community College celebrated the Japan-U.S. Cherry Blossom Centennial Tree Dedication Ceremony (日米桜寄贈100周年) on April 24, 2012 with the Consulate-General of Japan in New York and NYC Councilmember James Van Bramer.

We did some reserach on …

A 9.1 magnitude earthquake hit the northeast Japan on March 11, 2011. The earthquake and tsunami that followed caused a death toll of over 15,000 and forced 450,000 people evacuated from their home.

Right after the earthquake, a group of …