Sign up for Scholarship GM and Selection 2026 Today!

Applications for our scholarships opened on July 1. We are excited to request your help to join a Scholarship Committee or contribute to some other job within the Scholarship area.  

1. Scholarship is the core mission of CWAJ: Join a Scholarship Committee! The process to select CWAJ scholars works best when committees have a broad set of experience. That means we’d like you to join us — no prior experience or special expertise is needed. In fact, applicants for CWAJ scholarships are asked to write their applications for a general audience. If you are interested in reading and ranking scholarship applications, now is the time to sign up for the 2026 Selection Committees, or one of the other selection process roles. There are also smaller jobs and one-time jobs available such as translating an application or serving as hostess on interview day.

Please sign-up at THIS LINK

2. Scholarship has two more meetings in 2025:  Friday September 12 and Wednesday, December 10 starting at 9 am on Zoom. All CWAJ members are invited to attend to find out more about the activities of the Scholarship Committee. Sign up via THIS LINK

Scholar Alumni Gathering at the Print Show

On October 18 at 11:00 JST, we are again hosting the scholar alumni gathering at the Print Show.  CWAJ members are also invited to join and meet some of the inspiring scholars that CWAJ has supported.  

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Alumni News
The second book by Dr Masaya Nakamura (SVI 2014), Hope in the Name of Teacher ~ A Fifty-year History of Visually Impaired Teachers (written in Japanese) was published in July. He kindly donated a copy to CWAJ, which will soon be archived in the Mini Library at the CWAJ Center.

In August, Ririna Kaneko (SVI 2017) was invited to give a lecture in Japanese for a course, Psychology of Positionality: Linking Privilege Awareness to Action, at her alma mater Sophia University. About 30 students, who attended her 90-minute lecture titled Privileges of the Non-Disabled, raised many good questions during the Q&A time.