by Mihiro Nomura — Introduction I could not believe that I was back at Princeton after my year-long exchange here as a junior two years ago. But here I was, not as an exchange student but as a graduate student, ready to pursue yet another journey. Three months have passed since my arrival here, during…
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by Simon Oberhoffer — This summer, I had the honor to spend six fulfilling, productive and very insightful weeks at the University of California, Berkeley. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Friends of UTokyo, Inc., for making this stay possible through their exceptionally generous financial support in the course of the FUTI…
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by Zane Rossi — The big problem is of course that I cannot, in the space I have here, get across what the University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP) really was—that is, I can’t give every little fact or experience of the thing, and I definitely cannot do this as well as the heavy…
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by Risa Shibata — It has already been two months since I started my master’s degree program here at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. As I am participating in a dual master’s degree program, I completed my first year at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University…
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by Takenori Shimamura — Introduction Sustainability can be achieved only when social, economic, and environmental aspects are considered at the same time. At first, when I heard the word of sustainability, I usually imagined that this was a concept related to environmental and energy aspects. The typical example is fossil fuel, as many of you…
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by Atsushi Sugimura — I am currently conducting research at the Mark Twain Papers & Project at University of California, Berkeley. The purpose of my project is to explore the ways in which images of racial Others, Native Americans and African Americans in particular, play a pivotal role in the autobiographical construction of the works…
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by Taiga Tsubota — I clearly remember the first day when I came to Stanford University. On the shuttle to the campus, I was too nervous to sit still. Who will be my roommates? Can I keep up with the class? What if I drop off? I was always caring about these kinds of concerns,…
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by Haruka Tsuchiya — Thanks to the International Alliance of Research Universities, I participated in the Global Summer Program held by University of California Berkeley, and took the course of “Islamophobia and Constructing Otherness”. I’m very grateful to FUTI for the generous scholarship. My career goal is to go into the diplomatic service and deepen…
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by Kotaro Tsutsumi — With the generous support of Friends of of UTokyo, Inc., I spent this Summer participating in the University of Tokyo Research Internship Program. As a biochemistry major, I have been primarily utilizing molecular biological lab techniques at Northwestern, my home institution, in investigating protein characterization in Parkinson’s disease cell models. This…
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by Mayu Yamamoto — This summer I studied at Harvard Summer School in virtue of the generous support of FUTI. This was my first experience of studying in the US, and therefore found this experience to be one of the biggest challenges of my life, especially because I took the class of American foreign policy,…
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