2025 JAA - Honjo Scholarship

2025 JAA – Honjo Scholarship Guidelines

 

Through generous funding from the Honjo Foundation, JAA is looking for qualified candidates for its 2025 JAA – HONJO Scholarship. This is open to students who will be enrolled in a full-time course of graduate study (except medical, music, studio art and performing arts) at an accredited U.S. university in the greater New York area in the academic year 2025-2026. The student should be able to demonstrate an interest in and ideally is already involved in furthering U.S. – Japan relations. Awards ranging from $3,500 to $10,000 are available.  The deadline for applications is noon, February 21, 2025. You can submit your application here.

 

Submission Instructions: 

Please submit:

  1. A resume or CV
  2. Two letters of recommendation (at least one from a professor)
    *Letters of recommendation should be sent directory to info@jaany.org from issuers.
  3. Undergraduate and graduate transcripts
  4. Essay on how your current course of study will help further US-Japan relations (500 – 750 words).

Please submit your application through our online form below or you can download the application form from here and email it to info@jaany.org or noda@jaany.org, or send it by FAX/postal mail to the address below.

JAA Scholarship Committee
Japanese American Association of New York, Inc.

49 West 45th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10036
E-mail address: noda@jaany.org or info@jaany.org
Fax: 212-840-0616

*Please indicate on the envelope “HONJO SCHOLARSHIP.”

INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE REVIEWED.

All applicants will be notified of the results of their application.

If you are chosen as a recipient, you will be expected to stay in touch with the Honjo Foundation in Tokyo, Japan and let them know the status of your studies and how you have used your scholarship. 

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@jaany.org/212-840-6942