Day: April 20, 2025

Participate in the Scholarship Committee

We have a vacant role in Scholarship.  If you like to organise, then this is the job for you!  Scholarship Administrative Assistant – help with administrative tasks Assist with Scholar Presentation; e.g. name tags for guests, corsages for

Scholar News – Sangita Das (NJG 2001)

One of our past CWAJ scholars, Ms. Sangita Rajbongshi Das, has joined COAST Foundation as an honorary advisor.  COAST Foundation, a national NGO based in Bangladesh, organizes activities related to development and equitable improvement in the coastal areas

Scholarship Selection 2026

With the 2025 scholarship year wrapping up with the May luncheon, we are already thinking of the next round of selection. We hope to hit the ground running in September. We would like to invite as many CWAJ

June Announcement

Beginning in 2025, the Art Galleria portal is up and running, and all submissions have been made through this system. It is an efficient way to catalogue the prints and maintain clear information about the submissions. Thanks to

2025 Young Printmaker Award

On behalf of the committee, we are pleased to announce the 2025 Young Printmaker Award recipient is Kobayashi Kanta. He is in the second year of the master program in Nihon University. The committee was impressed with his

VVI’s 50th Anniversary in 2025

In 2025, CWAJ celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Volunteers for Visually Impaired (VVI) Committee providing unique and meaningful programs in English for Japanese with a visual impairment. Please check out our beautiful slider, on the top of

EOC June Meeting

Date: sometime in JuneVenue: St. Joseph’s Home for Children By the time you read this we’ve had a special Easter class at St. Joseph’s Home for Children, which took place in April. No exact date has been decided

FSC June Meeting

We plan to hold a program for graduates-to-be in June. We will inform you as soon as we have all the details. Co-chairs: Michiko Motomura, Fukuko TakahashiContact: fstudentscircle@cwaj.org

VVI June Meeting

Teaching English at JVDCBDo you speak English? Then you can teach English!  That is, you can help visually-impaired adults build up their English skills as they retrain for jobs at the Japan Vocational Development Center for the Blind

Volunteers for Development Team

Volunteer opportunity: If you have experience in the corporate world, please join us in Development!  We invite Members who can attend networking events and collect corporate and professional contacts to join our team! CWAJ has many new opportunities