Newsletter No. 18

FUTI Appoints Dr. Karasaki, President of the San Francisco Akamon-kai, and Dr. Suzuki, President of Satsuki-kai America, as Member of the Advisory Committee

At the Board meeting held on October 1, 2017, the FUTI Board appointed Dr. Kenzi Karasaki, President of the San ...
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Struggles as an American Graduate School Student

Yuki Haba Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctoral Candidate FUTI Global Leadership Award 2015 Recipient In the ...
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Excerpts of Reports by 2017 Summer Scholarship Recipients

As reported in Newsletter #17, eight University of Tokyo (UTokyo) students and ten U.S. students received the 2017 FUTI Global ...
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Professor Steven Wilkinson Delivers the 9th Yamakawa Kenjiro Memorial Lecture

The 9th Yamakawa Kenjiro Memorial Lecture/SSU Forum (hosted by UTokyo Policy Alternatives Research Institute and the Macmillan Center at Yale ...
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Professor Norio Matsuki Lectures on Sleep and Sleeping Pills

On October 2, Prof. Norio Matsuki gave a lecture primarily for University of Tokyo alumni on the theme of “Sleep ...
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Professor Takatoshi Ito Lectures in New York: “Issues in the Political Situation and Economic Policy in Japan after the General Election”

On November 3rd, Prof. Ito gave the above-referenced lecture at Tiger Pacific Capital, LP in mid-Manhattan. The event was sponsored ...
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FUTI Announces 2017-18 Fundraising Campaign

In November 2017, FUTI launched its eighth annual campaign. FUTI has grown steadily over the years and contributed to the ...
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Boosting Individual Donations is Imperative

FUTI has received a grant from Ito Foundation USA this year, in continuation from a grant received last year. This ...
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Annual Board and Advisory Committee Joint Meeting Held

FUTI Annual Board and Advisory Committee Joint Meeting, October 1 (Sunday), 12 pm-5pm Board members present: Masaaki Yamada (chair), Koichi ...
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FUTI Volunteer, Ms. Akiko Sokai

My name is Akiko Sokai. I am a volunteer for Friends of UTokyo. When I moved to New York in ...
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