Achievements
2019-20 Awards and Scholarships Highlights
2020 Best Award of Salem
- Japan Studies Student Leaders (JSSL)
Fulbright Scholar Award for Japan
- Claire Verstrate
Gold Award Winner of Category III of the J.LIVE (National Japanese Speech Contest)
- Natasha Milligan
Helen Yeoman Luther Scholarship
- Chris Gatling
- Lexi Louie
Phi Beta Kappa Society (America’s most prestigious academic honor society)
- Gavin Honke
WU Senior Certificate Award
- Claire Verstrate
WU Senior Key Award
- Jaelin Sonoda
Japanese Studies Majors and Japanese Minors
*As of May 2020
- Class of 2020: 7 majors, 7 minors
- Class of 2021: 7 majors, 4 minors
- Class of 2022: 4 majors, 6 minors
- Class of 2023: 2 majors, 1 minor
JET Program
- 2020: 5 ALT, 2 CIR
- 2019: 4 ALT, 1 CIR
- 2018: 10 ALT
- 2017: 1 ALT, 1 CIR
- 2016: 5 ALT, 1 CIR
- 2015: 8 ALT
Toyama Cup Speech Contest
List participants by year in numbers, like JET
- 2019: 1st Place Winner Division 1 ( 5 Willamette participants)
- 2018: 1st Place Division 2 Winner ( participants)
- 2017: 1st Place Division 1 Winner, 1st Place 2nd Division Winner (2 Willamette participants)
- 2016: 1st Place Division 1 Winner (2 Willamette participants)
Study Abroad
Japanese Studies Program (JSP)
- 2019-20: 10 participants
- 2018-19: 16 participants
- 2017-18: 9 participants
- 2016-17: 10 participants
Japan Summer Program
- 2019: 11 participants
- 2018: 14 participants
- 2017: 12 participants
- 2016: 15 participants
Leadership
Club leaders
- JSSL Executives
- Marcos Maza (President), Claire Verstrate (Vice President), Abby Ferguson (Secretary), Andrew Arzaga (Treasurer), Mason McGrail (Historian)
- WU Taiko President
- Gavin Honke
- Sanshin Club President
- Amelia Gingrich
- Koto Club Presidents
- Andrew Arzaga (FA19), Kahi Wilhelm (SP20)
IPC (International Peer Coach)
- Lauren Laine, Kyra Styner
Language in Motion
- Language in Motion Japanese Facilitator: Natasha Milligan
- Howard Street Charter School Japanese Program participants
- Rey Takahashi, Gavin Honke, Yasmin Flores-Lopez, Mason McGrain, Kyra Styner
Language Table Coordinator
- Amelia Gingrich
Opening Days Coordinator
- Jaelin Sonoda
TIUA Tutor
- Sucdi Ahmed, Jack Glenn, Jaelin Sonoda
World Languages Studio
- Natasha Milligan (Student Manager and Japanese Liaison)
- Rey Takahashi (Japanese Liaison)
Faculty Publications
- Fujiwara, Miho. 2019. A Paradigm-Based Analysis of the Honorific Prefixes 'O' and 'Go" and Its Application to Language Teaching. 敬語接頭辞「お・ご」パラダイムに基づく分析と言語教育への応用 Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Japanese Education (CAJLE) Annual Conference 2019. 71-77.
